TORSTAR CORP. $14 Toronto symbol TS.B

TORSTAR CORP. $14 (Toronto symbol TS.B; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 78.8 million; Market cap: $1.1 billion; SI Rating: Above average) has paid an undisclosed sum for Central Ontario Web Ltd., a commercial printing company in Barrie, Ontario. The purchase will help expand capacity at Torstar’s community newspaper division. It will also cut distribution costs. Right now, Torstar prints many of its central Ontario papers at its plants in Toronto and then transports them to these communities. Torstar is a buy.

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