Someone’s next drive home could be much more exciting

St. Jacobs – Home Hardware is offering their customers the chance to win 1 of 3 Canadian-made 2009 Toyota RAV4’s in their recently launched ‘Drive Home a Toyota Sweepstakes’.

This year marks a mutual milestone for Home Hardware and Toyota Canada Inc. as they each celebrate their 45th anniversaries and many successful years of business in Canada. As part of this celebration, three lucky Canadians will receive a fuel-efficient 2009 Toyota RAV4.

Toyota Canada Inc. and Home Hardware Stores Limited recently announced a multi-year business relationship, with Toyota as the official vehicle of Home Hardware and Home Hardware as the official home improvement retailer of Toyota. The companies are both known for their quality, value and customer service levels, which makes it a natural partnership. Through this partnership, Toyota Canada and Home Hardware are working together on marketing promotions - such as the Drive Home a Toyota sweepstakes - in stores, at trade shows and in promotional materials.

“What better way to celebrate our 45th anniversary, then to show our appreciation to our customers with this exciting contest,” said Paul Straus, Vice-President and CEO of Home Hardware Stores Limited. “With more than 1,000 stores in communities large and small across Canada, Home Hardware’s independent Dealer Owners know the value of their customers and are excited to thank them in such an amazing way.”

“Our focus has always been our customers,” noted Stephen Beatty, Managing Director of Toyota Canada Inc. “In neighbourhoods across the country, Toyota dealers and Home Hardware dealers continue to focus on customers with the goal of providing real value.”

Ballots can be entered at Home Hardware stores across Canada, as well as online at online at www.homehardware.ca, from June 8th until August 31st, 2009.

Home Hardware Stores Limited is Canada's largest independent hardware, lumber and building materials and furniture retailer with more than 1,000 stores across Canada, under the Home Hardware, Home Building Centre, Home Hardware Building Centre and Home Furniture banners. Dealers have access to 100,000 quality brand name and private label products and the company has annual retail sales of $4.85 billion. The cooperative was founded on January 1, 1964 by 122 independent hardware Dealers.

Toyota Canada Inc. (TCI) is the exclusive Canadian distributor of Toyota and Lexus cars, SUVs and trucks, and Toyota industrial equipment. TCI’s head office is in Scarborough, with regional offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Halifax and parts distribution centres in Toronto and Vancouver. TCI supports more than 300 Toyota, Lexus and Toyota Industrial Equipment dealers in Canada with services that include training, marketing and environmental and customer satisfaction initiatives. Toyota’s Canadian operations include automotive assembly plants in Cambridge, ON (Toyota Corolla, Toyota Matrix, Lexus RX 350) and Woodstock, ON (Toyota RAV4), which together employ more than 5,700 Canadians.