Pennington fits with Sears

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REITMANS (CANADA) LTD. $8.99 (Toronto symbol RET.A; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (514-384-1140; www.reitmans.com; Shares outstanding: 64.6 million; Market cap: $560.8 million; Dividend yield: 8.9%) has reached an agreement with Sears Canada to sell its Penningtons clothing in Sears’ stores. The Penningtons chain sells plus-sized clothing, starting at size 14, that aims to be both fashionable and affordable. It consists of 156 stores. Under the deal, Reitmans will start selling Penningtons’ clothes in five Sears stores with about 4,000 square feet of space each and online at sears.ca. It will introduce it in additional Sears stores in 2014. Reitmans is still a buy. buy…