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ANDREW PELLER LTD. $8.49 is still a buy. The company (Toronto symbol ADW.A; Conservative Growth Payer Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares o/s: 44.2 million; Market cap: $375.3 million; Dividend yield: 2.5%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.andrewpeller.com) is Canada’s second-largest wine producer, after Arterra Wines (formerly the Canadian division of Constellation Brands.) Its wineries are in Ontario, British Columbia and Nova Scotia. With the July 2019 payment, Peller raised your quarterly dividend by 4.8%. Investors now receive $0.05375 a share, up from $0.05125. The new annual rate of $0.215 yields 2.5%. Peller has paid dividends since 1979 and has raised the annual rate each year for the past seven years. The Ontario government has designated Peller’s 100 retail stores in the province as “essential”, so they continue to operate. That’s important as those stores generate higher profit margins than sales through provincial liquor stores and other chains. Peller is also enhancing its future prospects by diversifying into other products—it recently launched a new line of ciders and…