Mr. Robert Farah reports

HART STORES OPENS NEW STORE IN NEW BRUNSWICK

Hart Stores Inc. has opened a new 15,000-square-foot store in Beresford, N.B., the 61st in the chain.

"We are pleased to serve the needs of the community in Beresford which is a suburb of the city of Bathurst and is an ideal community for our store product offerings," stated Robert Farah, the company's president and chief operating officer. "We continue to seek new store opportunities as we rebalance our store location portfolio."

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