<P> In October 2010, Tim Hortons confirmed that it is planning to open three kiosks at NorthMart stores in Iqaluit, Nunavut, in November 2010, as part of a joint venture with The North West Company, the owners of NorthMart . This opening will make Tim Hortons a fully Canadian operation with stores in every province and territory; the new branch will become its northernmost . The Tim Hortons logo in these kiosks will feature Inuktitut characters . According to Nick Javor, senior vice-president of corporate affairs at Tim Hortons, "You could say it's overdue . If we can be in Kandahar, why can't we be in Iqaluit?" In December 2011, Tim Hortons opened its 4000th restaurant . In 2012, Tim Hortons Inc. recorded its total revenues at $3.12 billion (CDN). As of 2012 the company had expanded across Canada . As of June 30, 2013, Tim Hortons has 4,304 restaurants, including 3,802 in Canada, 807 in the United States, 29 in the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Persian Gulf . Tim Hortons reportedly had plans by 2013 plans to enter the large Indian market, which the company denied . </P> <P> Tim Hortons officially opened its first Southeast Asian store in Manila, Philippines on February 28, 2017 . </P> <P> Initially, the US stores were the result of natural expansion in Canada--U.S. border areas (e.g., stores in Maine and the Buffalo, New York area where Horton played from 1972 to 1974 as a member of the Buffalo Sabres). The first United States locations were opened in Deerfield Beach, Florida and Pompano Beach, Florida in 1981, but they proved unsuccessful and were closed . In 1985, the chain returned to the US with a location on Niagara Falls Boulevard in the Buffalo suburb of Amherst, New York . Starting in the mid-1990s, however, the chain began expanding in the US by acquiring former locations from fast food chains . In 1996 and 1997, thirty - seven former Rax Restaurants locations in Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia were bought by Wendy's International Inc.; 30 of these were converted to Tim Hortons, while the others became Wendy's franchise locations . Thirty - five closed Hardee's stores in the Detroit area were also purchased with the intention of being converted . By 2004, the chain had also acquired 42 Bess Eaton coffee and doughnut restaurants situated in southern New England . Several combination Wendy's / Tim Hortons units were opened in the US; both in the "traditional" markets of Maine and Buffalo, where there were well over 180 locations as of 2011, and in the markets entered through acquisition . </P> <P> In October 2008, Tim Hortons announced a plan to add 82 locations in Tops Markets stores in the United States . </P>

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