According to David Meany, vice president of e-commerce at Orgill, Inc., there are three major trends that you should embrace when it comes to e-commerce: The most important is the mobility. Consumers expect to find your business on the web, …
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Made in America a Key Trend at Reliable Distributors Management and Marketing Conference
Reliable Distributors kicked off its 2014 Management and Marketing Conference Thursday in Orlando, Fla., with its annual Member Meeting, where Greg Phillips, President of Harvest Supply, was introduced as Reliable Distributor’s newest member. During the meeting, members were introduced to …
Read More »Do it Best Corp. Appoints New Vice President of Marketing
Do it Best Corp. announced today the selection of Rich Lynch as the co-op’s new vice president of marketing. In this position, Lynch will lead a team dedicated to helping co-op member-owners grow their businesses through effective, flexible and scalable …
Read More »Terry Davis to Become CEO, Home Hardware Stores Limited
Home Hardware’s Board of Directors announced that Terry Davis, Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of Home Hardware Stores Limited, will become the new Chief Executive Officer, effective May 1, 2014. Davis succeeds current President and Chief Executive Officer, Paul Straus, who remains …
Read More »Ace Hardware Recognizes Retailer with First-Ever Retail Leadership Award
Ace Hardware Corporation recently recognized Les Orchekowsky of Sierra Vista, Ariz., with Ace’s first-ever Ray A. Griffith Retail Leadership Award. Named after Ace’s former CEO Ray A. Griffith who retired in March 2013, the award will be given annually to …
Read More »Ace LED Clamp Light Recalled
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) published a recall of Ace Hardware’s Ace Clamp-On LED Work Lights due to a potential electric shock and fire hazard. According to the CPSC report, the cord bushing inside the light base could fail, allowing the cord …
Read More »SPONSORED: Pricing in Today’s Retail Sphere
Zone pricing at the big boxes continues to be one of the biggest challenges for independent retailers in terms of determining a profitable pricing strategy that will work for their stores. The motivations behind why the big boxes are opting …
Read More »Existing-Home Sales Take Slight Dip in February
Home prices continued to show solid growth in most of the U.S. due to limited inventory conditions, but rising prices and severe winter weather caused existing-home sales to slip in February, according to the National Association of Realtors®. Total existing-home sales declined 0.4 …
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