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Home Depot Canada held its annual "Meet the Buyer" day in Toronto on Nov. 7, an event that brought 22 small and medium manufacturers from Quebec and Ontario face-to-face with the retailer’s merchants.  Now in its third year, Meet the Buyer is a partnership between The Home Depot Canada, the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation, and the Quebec Ministry of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade.

Toronto-based Canadian Tire Corp. has implemented a Vendor Management program from Soft Solutions, a provider of global intelligent retail systems.

The deployment of the ibs Referential Vendor Management solution started with ibs pricing and ibs promotions, followed by the deployment of the full version of ibs referential for retail organizations and product management (PIM, MDM).

According to an article in Canadian Business, Sears Canada laid off about 70 employees from its Toronto headquarters.

Sears Canada is 92% owned by Hoffman Estates, Ill.-based Sears Holdings, which reported a widened net loss in its recent third-quarter earnings report. Sears Canada comps declined 7.8% in the third quarter.

HD Supply Canada has announced its intent to sell SESCO/QUESCO, a unit that provides business customers electrical products from leading manufacturers, to Sonepar Canada. The purchase price was not disclosed. 

Hardlines, the Toronto-based information service for the retail home improvement industry, presented its 2010 Newsmaker Award, and Hardware Merchandising magazine handed out seven Outstanding Retailer awards to Canadian hardware/home improvement retailers during the annual Hardlines Conference in Toronto.