Case Study: Sears Canada

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Sears Canada Inc. is a retailer which has its headquarter in Toronto, Ontario, which runs businesses in all provinces and territories of Canada with a network of 167 corporate stores, 38 home-improvement showrooms, 197 Hometown stores, 85 Sears Travel offices and a countrywide home safeguarding, revamp, and installation network. SLH Transport, a goods trucking company and completely owned auxiliary which has its headquarters in Kingston, Ontario, gives Sears with transportation and logistics services and they have 3,700 trailers, 620 trucks and 900 associates with terminals based all through Canada. Sears also has a universal merchandise catalogue with more than 1,300 catalogue merchandise pickup positions. There is a Sears store within a 10-minute drive of 93% of Canadians. Around 20,000 people its employees all through the company.
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Sears Canada started its business as Simpsons-Sears Limited, a catalogue and mid-market suburban retailer, as a partnership between the Robert Simpson Company (Simpson's), a Canadian department store vendor, and Sears, Roebuck and Co. of the United States. In January 2006, Sears Holdings Inc., the parent company and has the greater part of the shares of Sears Canada Inc. had a bid to buy the residual shares to take the company private. A few members of the board contrasted the move. Sears obtained rights to sell Cherokee line clothing from Target Canada in partnership with Wayne

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