Gateway Newstands


Gateway Newstands is a chain of convenience stores and kiosks in large office buildings, shopping centres, public places, and transit stations in the United States and Canada. Vaughan, Ontario-based Tobmar Investments International Inc. is the company that runs Gateway Newstands. The stores operate as independent franchisees and sell a wide variety of convenience items from tobacco and lottery tickets; to candy, chewing gum, and non-alcoholic beverages; and newspapers and magazines. There are currently over 500 Gateway franchises in the network.
Gateway Newstands operates 65 locations in the Toronto subway system since the mid-1990s. Competitors to Gateway Newstands accused the Toronto Transit Commission of sole-sourcing.