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About
Gateway |
- History
- Gateway Newstands
are specialists; their only business is to serve
the daily merchandise needs of premiers commercial,
retail and transit developments. Gateway Newstands
has established itself as the leading national
tobacco/news store specialist. The principals
of the company have an aggregate sum of 43 years
of experience in the industry.
- Concept
- The Service Store Concept
developed as a direct result of the company's analysis of
traffic count studies and its identification and emphasis on
the daily needs of a diverse variety of shoppers. The
merchandise mix is formulated specifically to cater to the
everyday needs and impulse sales of today's busy consumers.
The ongoing refinement of the company's merchandise mix is an
important part of the company's business service ethic.
- Gateway Newsstand have created
an important retail marketing niche. The simultaneous
presentation of snacks, beverages, candy, cards,
tobacco, reading material and lottery tickets
capitalizes on the customer traffic generated
by each entity, creating impulse sales in areas
other than represented by the customers original
shopping purpose.
- Gateway Newstands is an integral
part of any prime commercial retail project. No
other retail service tenant satisfies as a wide
a spectrum of consumers' service and convenience
requirements.
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| who? |
- family owned &
operated partnership based in Canada
- professional head
office personnel in all areas of category &
district management, merchandising & operations
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| what? |
- prime retail locations
including key transit systems, major office towers
& high traffic shopping malls
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| when? |
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| where? |
- over 400 stores
in North America
- locations in 8 Canadian
provinces with dominance in Ontario
- exclusive newsstand
retailer in North America's third largest transit
system-the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC)
- over 100 US locations
with concentration in New York & Chicago
- 16 new locations
in the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) early 2002
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| how? |
- 100% owner/franchise
operation
- strong head office
support
- mandated merchandising
programs for all categories
- consistently rated
among North America's top 100 franchises by Entrepreneur
magazine
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