Sean Angelo General Manager Budget Home Supply Longmont, Colorado Over $2 Million in Annual Sales “I understand the challenges that small family businesses face while transitioning from generation to generation, and I’m determined to continue the tradition and legacy of …
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Wisconsin’s Trilling Hardware Survives and Thrives for More Than 165 Years
When August Trilling, a first-generation German immigrant, opened a general store in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, in 1850, he had no idea what the future would hold for his business, later named Trilling Hardware. Since its founding, the 167-year-old company has been …
Read More »More Than 160 Years of History at Henne Hardware
The store is located on a busy street downtown in New Braunfels, Texas, and it’s unmistakably from another era. If you walk through Henne Hardware’s door, you will see that you can buy the essential hardware products you’d expect of …
Read More »Guiding Businesses Through the Centuries
Click the picture to download a PDF of this story. By Todd Taber ttaber@nrha.org, Kate Klein kklein@nrha.org, and Renee Changnon rchangnon@nrha.org. Independent home improvement retailers have, literally and figuratively, helped build America, and at least one existing operation predates the …
Read More »Legislative Report: Banking Reform and Tariff Updates
Click the picture to download a PDF of this story. To keep retailers more informed about the legislative issues that may impact their businesses, Hardware Retailing will be providing regular updates in future issues and online. For nearly a decade, banking regulation …
Read More »Home Organization Is a Growing Category
Click the picture to download a PDF of this story. By Kate Klein, kklein@nrha.org Home organization products compose a growing category, and DIYers are the most frequent buyers of the cabinets, benches and other storage items they need to put their houses …
Read More »Home Depot Invests in Property Maintenance Company Homee
Home Depot has partnered with a growth equity firm to invest $11 million in Homee, an on-demand property maintenance company, the Tampa Business Journal reports. Homee, based in Tampa, Florida, launched in July 2016 and “uses GPS-enabled smartphone technology to link …
Read More »Woods Hardware Wins $100K for Business Improvement Project
Click the picture to download a PDF of this story. By Renee Changnon, rchangnon@nrha.org A Winning Idea Matt Woods, president and CEO of his family business Woods Hardware in Cincinnati, had an exciting idea for improving his operation. However, like many retailers, money …
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