Topic: How To Invest

Power Growth Investor Hotline – Friday, December 13, 2024

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NORTH WEST COMPANY, $48.01, is a buy. The retailer (symbol NWC on Toronto) sells food, and everyday products and services through 227 stores. Those locations are mainly in northern communities across Canada and Alaska. Through your shares, you also tap the company’s operations in remote regions of Hawaii, the wider South Pacific and the Caribbean. North West’s food offerings consist of perishable and non-perishable products including groceries, dairy, produce, meat, convenience foods, food service, home meal replacement, health and beauty aids, paper products and cleaning supplies. Its general merchandise assortment is broad, and includes family apparel, housewares, sporting goods, toys, furniture, appliances, home entertainment, snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), boats and outboard motors. The company also offers other everyday products and services such as gasoline, pharmacy and financial services like cheque cashing, ATMs and prepaid card products. North West owns North Star Air Ltd., a Thunder Bay-based airline. North Star provides cargo and passenger services in the following regions of Canada: northwestern Ontario, northern…