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Canadian Tire Deploying Several Thousand BlackBerry Phones

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Canadian Tire has selected BlackBerry as its official smartphone for its corporate team across Canada. Employees from across the Canadian Tire family of companies, including Canadian Tire Retail, Canadian Tire Financial Services, Mark’s and FGL Sports (Sport Chek, Sports Experts, National Sports and Atmosphere), will use BlackBerry 10 smartphones as their primary business device.

The company is deploying several thousand units in the coming months, comprised of a mix of BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry Q10 smartphones.

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