Already having trouble fitting all the news in every week, we added a page to the HARDLINES fax newsletter and called it HARDLINES−Extra. Exactly 20 years ago, Cashway, a 55-store chain in Ontario, was looking for a buyer under the leadership of investment wunderkind Craig Graham. A buyer was not found until RONA picked it up five years later. Graham went on to run Liquidation World (later Big Lots) among other companies. He is currently executive chairman and CEO of Rainmaker Entertainment Inc., which makes computer-generated animated films. Click here to read it yourself!
