TORONTO — Only two days into his new job as the head of the unified Lowe’s-RONA business, Sylvain Prud’homme admits that a lot of questions still don’t have answers. “There’s a lot we need to figure out in the first 30 days,” he says. That includes deciding what the Lowe’s office in Toronto will look like, who will stay, and who will replace him personally to run the Lowe’s business there.
That someone may or may not come from within the Lowe’s or RONA ranks. And they may or may not be in charge of a separate buying team in Toronto, “but this is a top priority we have to address right now.”
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