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Understanding how your business compares to similar operations is a crucial step in mastering your finances and planning for future success. Each year, the North American Retail Hardware Association (NRHA) surveys thousands of retailers to deliver that knowledge to independent …

For many small business owners, Google Ads is a powerful component of their marketing strategy. Retailers can create their own digital ads and target them precisely to their intended audience, allowing a sharper ad focus than other methods. But the …

Home improvement stores are places of possibility. Every aisle, each shelf and all transactions your team earns bring individuals and families one step closer to living in the space of their dreams. Understanding the intersection of home improvement retail and …

High Performance Retailing invites you to build your business with data. Launching within the pages of the September issue of Hardware Retailing magazine is High Performance Retailing, a quarterly data resource produced by the North American Retail Hardware Association and …

Welcome to the first issue of High Performance Retailing, a collaboration between the North American Retail Hardware Association and market research firm The Farnsworth Group. Each quarterly installment aims to deliver actionable, relevant data to independent home improvement retailers to …

David Logan, director of tax and trade policy analysis for the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), answered questions from Hardware Retailing about lumber prices and other concerns in the homebuilding sector. Hardware Retailing (HR): Why are lumber prices lower …

U.S. homebuilders are feeling more confident about the economy and their trade, based on the latest Housing Market Index released by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and Wells Fargo. Overall, homebuilder confidence rose to 66 points in August, …