Canadian Tire hopes Party City will add high lifetime value millennials and Canadian families to its customer base and fuel growth of its Triangle Rewards program.

Canadian Tire has acquired Party   Read More

Sentry Investments executive Andy Nasr looks to the United States, especially the financial, consumer staples, healthcare, technology, construction and infrastructure sectors, as good places to invest now. When pressed to   Read More

Key stock Hardwoods Distribution is acquiring Rugby Architectural Building Products, which operates across the U.S. Hardwoods expects the acquisition to add to its earnings per share and cash flow. It   Read More

 A recent Globe and Mail story highlighted one of the market’s occasional paradoxes: investors are using exchange-traded funds (or “ETFs”) to short the consumer staples sector, but aren’t shorting the   Read More

The new investment includes construction projects for dozens of new and existing stores. This giant in the consumer goods industry is Canada’s largest retailer providing grocery, pharmacy, health and beauty,   Read More

Tim Hortons-Burger King merger likely just the beginning for Oakville, Ont.-based parent, consumer goods stock Restaurant Brands International Inc.
Analysts at Vancouver-headquartered Odlum Brown are serving up a “buy” recommendation for   Read More

Remember all the talk a year or so ago how gold would take off? Well, guess what? It didn’t. In fact, it’s now trading at an even lower price. Keith   Read More

Growth stock Alimentation Couche-Tard released stronger earnings for the nine months to February 1. It has also agreed to acquire 315 service stations in Denmark from A/S Dansk Shell. This   Read More

Analysts follow as many as 20 stocks, most of which are rated “buys”. Of those buys, an analyst has one or two special favorites seen as most suitable for new   Read More

U.S. Key stock PepsiCo earned more in 2014, excluding currency changes and one-time items. It expects to earn more in 2015. This gives this global consumer goods stock the means   Read More

Many retailers have closed all, or trimmed the number of, their Canadian stores. This gives the successful survivors room to expand. Continue to invest in consumer goods stocks such as   Read More