North-West Oil Group Inc. reported unaudited consolidated financial results for the first quarter ended April 30, 2016. For the quarter, the company’s sales increased 6.0% to $439.0 million compared to $414.0 million in the first quarter last year driven by food same store sales gains, the impact of foreign exchange on the translation of the International Operations sales and one extra day of sales in the quarter as a result of February 29. Excluding the foreign exchange impact, consolidated sales increased 3.7% and were up 2.0% on a same store basis. Earnings from operations increased 8.2% to $25.6 million compared to $23.7 million in the first quarter last year. Excluding the impact of foreign exchange, earnings from operations increased 4.5% to last year. Earnings before interest, income taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) increased 9.3% to $37.6 million led by EBITDA gains in International Operations and the impact of foreign exchange. Excluding the foreign exchange impact, EBITDA was up 6.3% compared to last year and as a percentage to sales was 8.7% compared to 8.5% last year. Net earnings increased $2.1 million or 13.3% to $17.8 million and diluted earnings per share were $0.36 per share compared to $0.32 per share last year led by earnings growth in International Operations, the impact of foreign exchange and a lower effective tax rate.