what is Loblaw Companies Lmt. primary products and how this is tailored in Canada?

Hi morad187:

The following concise description of Loblaw Companies Ltd. comes from
Investor Canada:

"LOBLAW COMPANIES LTD (T.L)
Loblaw Companies Ltd. is a food distribution company with operations
across Canada. The Company operates grocery stores under various
banners."
http://www.investorcanada.com/stockbriefs.php?stockID=581

More information on this company can be found at their website: 

Loblaw Company Limited
http://www.loblaw.com/

Their primary product line is full-service grocery and they own and
operate stores under the following banners:

Loblaws:               http://www.loblaws.ca/
Fortinos:              http://www.fortinos.ca/
Atlantic Superstore:   http://www.atlanticsuperstore.ca/
Zehrs Markets:         http://www.zehrsmarkets.ca/
Provigo:               http://www.provigo.ca/

They also own the "President's Choice" brand of food products:
http://www.presidentschoice.ca/

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detailed overview of exactly what it is you need, using the
Clarification feature. As well, please allow me to provide you with
clarification *before* you rate this answer.
  
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Request for Answer Clarification by morad187-ga on 09 Oct 2002 13:12 PDT

sorry to be a pain but i need to know how they focus on major/primary
products and services and how this is tailored to demand in Canada.

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Clarification of Answer by websearcher-ga on 09 Oct 2002 13:44 PDT

Hi morad187:

You're not being a pain at all. :-)

I will do some more searching for this type of information tomorrow.
(I have to teach a class tonight.) If there's anything out there like
that, I'll find it for you.

websearcher-ga

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Clarification of Answer by websearcher-ga on 10 Oct 2002 10:51 PDT

Hi morad187:

The grocery stores operating under the Loblaw umbrella (as mentioned
in my earlier response) sell thousands and thousands of individual
products.

While I certainly am no marketing guru, I would say that for the
purposes of your research, you should identify "major/primary products
and services" as the specialty lines of products that these stores
carry (sometimes referred to as "private lines"). That would be the
following lines:

* President's Choice
* No-Name
* G.R.E.E.N.
* Sunspun
* Teddy's Choice

These lines are definitely tailored to the demand in Canada, allowing
their store to effectively play both ends of the shopping spectrum -
quality conscious and price conscious - and everyone in-between.

Instead of trying to elaborate on this myself, I think it would be
much more productive to point you at some on-line documents that will
explain things better.

Excellent document available only in HTML-Google-cache form:
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:DdeUfkqb-UUC:www.geocities.com/pat_long26/samples/Loblaw.doc+loblaw+%22consumer+demand%22+-pesticides&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Excellent Businesses: Loblaws Companies Limited
http://www.aic.com/en/main/home.asp?Disp=http%3A//www.aicfunds.com/en/Excellent_businesses/loblaws.asp

Business Analysis: How the big-name brands were whipped by a ham
http://report.ca/archive/report/20010101/p39i010101f.html

Canada Market Development Reports - Private Label Grocery
Opportunities, 2000
http://www.fas.usda.gov/GainFiles/200009/30678039.pdf

Healthy foods take a bigger bite of market
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/PEstory/TGAM/20020928/RRETA/Health/health/health_temp/1/1/8/

Loblaws to be Chemical Pesticide Free by 2003
http://wmuma.com/caretaker/currentissues/canada/loblaws.html


I hope these documents help you out in your research!

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