Garrett Retz from Cardwell Do it Best Home Center in Indianapolis is attending the Spring 2016 class of the North American Retail Hardware Association’s (NRHA) Retail Management Certification Program, thanks to a $6,250 scholarship sponsored by Do it Best Corp. …
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Going Mini With the Tiny House Trend
If you’ve watched home design shows or you’ve browsed through Pinterest much, you may have seen examples of the homes attracting varying types of homeowners to the tiny house movement. According to The Tiny Life, a resource for people seeking information on tiny living, …
Read More »Hardware Stores Seeing Housewares Sales increase
Housewares sales have dropped overall in the U.S., but home improvement stores have increased market share for the category. Annual U.S. housewares expenditures slowed to 2.3-percent growth between 2013 and 2014, down from 5.9-percent growth between 2012 and 2013, according …
Read More »Tech Gets Bigger, Especially in Home Security
Home automation technology is an ever-growing retail segment, and products for home security and other house improvements are top sellers worldwide. Home security systems produced the most revenue –$1.51 billion–of all home automation products in a market that is growing rapidly, …
Read More »HDW Reports Record Opening-Day Attendance at Market
Hardware Distribution Warehouses, Inc. (HDW) CEO and president Kenneth R. Beauvais reported record opening-day attendance at the distributor’s spring market. HDW hosted the show Jan. 29-31 at the Shreveport Convention Center in Shreveport, Louisiana. The market’s attendance was boosted this year with …
Read More »Target: Gauging What Customers Want
Like so many other retailers, Target is trying its best to engage with millennial customers by trying to figure out their wants and needs. That’s part of working on beefing up the company’s U.S. business, which CEO Brian Cornell had …
Read More »5 Trends to Look for at the International Hardware Fair
The International Hardware Fair in Cologne, Germany, is coming up quickly. At the EISENWARENMESSE International Hardware Fair, which is March 6-8, more than 2,700 suppliers from 50 countries will showcase their hardware and DIY products. As the leading European event, …
Read More »Store Security Video Goes Viral After Earthquake
A few days after Anchorage True Value shared security camera footage of the store’s aisles collapsing during a magnitude-7.1 earthquake on its Facebook page, the video had gone viral and people from around the world were checking in on …
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