The North West Company

The North West Company is a leading retailer to underserved rural communities and urban neighbourhood markets in the following regions: Northern Canada, Western Canada, rural Alaska, the South Pacific islands and the Caribbean. Their stores offer a broad range of products and services with an emphasis on food. Their value offer is to be the best local shopping choice for everyday household and local lifestyle needs. North West’s core strengths include: their ability to adapt their product mix to each market they serve; their logistics expertise in moving product to, and operating stores within, remote or difficult-to-reach locations; their knowledge in serving indigenous and lower-income customers; and their ability to apply these strengths to serve customers within complementary niche businesses. North West has a rich enterprising legacy as one of the longest continuing retail enterprises in the world. The company traces its roots back to 1668 with many of their store locations in Northern Canada and Alaska having been in operation for over 200 years. Today these northern stores serve communities with populations from 500 to 8,000. A typical store is 7,500 square feet in size and offers food, family apparel, housewares, appliances, outdoor products and services such as post offices, income tax return preparation, quick-service prepared food, commercial business sales, money transfers and cheque cashing.

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