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DOREL INDUSTRIES INC. $33 (Toronto symbol DII.B; High-Growth Payer Portfolio; Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 32.4 million; Market cap: $1.1 billion; Dividend yield: 4.9%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.dorel.com) makes a range of items: readyto-assemble home and office furniture; juvenile products such as car seats, strollers, high chairs, toddler beds and cribs; and bicycles and other sporting goods. In the quarter ended March 31, 2017, sales grew 0.1%, to $646.7 million from $645.9 million a year earlier (all figures except share price and market cap in U.S. dollars). Revenue from Dorel’s home furniture operations rose 8.8%. That offset declines at the company’s juvenile products business (down 5.5%) and its sporting goods business (down 1.1%). Thanks to cost savings from a restructuring plan, Dorel’s earnings in the quarter increased 15.0%, to $22.7 million, or $0.69 a share, from $19.7 million, or $0.60. The company recently announced that it will move the production of one million car seats from China to Indiana. That’s because Wal-Mart,…