Loblaw Companies Limited Files 2009 Annual Report

TORONTO, March 12 /CNW/ - Loblaw Companies Limited (TSX: L) announced today that it has filed its Audited Annual Consolidated Financial Statements for the year-ended January 2, 2010, related Management's Discussion and Analysis, and its Annual Information Form with Canadian securities regulatory authorities via SEDAR.

Copies of these documents are available on the Company's website at www.loblaw.ca.

About Loblaw Companies Limited

Loblaw Companies Limited, a subsidiary of George Weston Limited, is Canada's largest food distributor and a leading provider of drugstore, general merchandise and financial products and services. Loblaw is one of the largest private sector employers in Canada. With more than 1,000 corporate and franchised stores from coast to coast, Loblaw and its franchisees employ over 138,000 full-time and part-time employees. Through its portfolio of store formats, Loblaw is committed to providing Canadians with a wide, growing and successful range of products and services to meet the everyday household demands of Canadian consumers. Loblaw is known for the quality, innovation and value of its food offering. It offers Canada's strongest control (private) label program, including the unique President's Choice(R), no name(R) and Joe Fresh Style(R) brands. In addition, the Company makes available to consumers President's Choice Financial(R) services and offers the PC(R) points loyalty program

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