Throwback Thursday is a regular weekly feature in which we dip into the archives of the Hardlines Weekly Report.
It has been a quarter century tomorrow since we reported, on Dec. 6, 1999, that Vancouver-based Revy Home & Garden was making a big push into the Ontario market by acquiring four new sites. At the time of our report, Revy had just one operating store in the province, in Mississauga.
Just 18 months later, RONA would swoop in to buy Revy’s 50 stores (including many Revelstoke Home Centres) from West Fraser Timber Co. for $220 million. That deal was announced on July 21, 2001.
