Hart Stores Inc. Announces New Board of Director Member

3/22/2006

Montreal, Hart Stores Inc. announced that J. Pierre Brunet, Ph.D., has joined its board of directors.

Brunet is currently a member of a number of advisory boards and chairman of the board’s PEAK Financial Group Inc., in charge of managing strategic growth and organization issues. The company also announced that as part of its focused expansion plan it would open two new stores in Ontario by the end of March 2006.