Canadian Tire Corp. (TSX: CTC.A, OTC: CDNAF)

In addition to its 502 dealer-operated Canadian Tire stores, CTC also owns and directly operates Mark’s with 386 stores, and 354 sports stores (SportChek, Sports Expert, Atmosphere, Athlete’s World, and others). As well, it has 277 gasoline bar locations, plus PartSource, Party City, and Pro Hockey Life, which total 171 stores.

Canadian Tire, through its bank subsidiary is also a large MasterCard issuer with 2.35 million active credit card holders with average account balances of $3,252 each. That’s $7.6 billion in credit card receivables.