Whether you are a social media maverick or beginning a path to building your own digital community, it is important to learn the “rules of conduct” when promoting your business using social platforms. Here are five ways to make the …
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Stan Hardman, Former Do it Best Board Chairman, Hardware Retailing Top Gun, Passes Away
Former Do it Best Board of Directors Chairman and president and chairman emeritus of Hardman Supply Company Stanley Hardman passed away April 22. Hardman was born on May 11, 1944, in Morgantown, West Virginia. He died in the Levine & …
Read More »Ace’s Open Buying Day Event for Prospective Vendors Scheduled for June 24
Industry vendors will have an opportunity to introduce their products to Ace Hardware at the co-op’s Open Buying Day Event on June 24 at the Doubletree Hotel in Oak Brook, Ill. At the event, merchants from Ace Hardware will meet …
Read More »Your Guide to the National Hardware Show® and NRHA All-Industry Conference
Retailers, distributors, manufacturers and other players in the home improvement industry will have business on their minds this May as they descend on Las Vegas for the NRHA All-Industry Conference and the National Hardware Show®. The Conference, which is free …
Read More »A Cause for Our Industry: NRHA Partners with Fuller Center for Housing
In 2011, Indianapolis retailers joined hundreds of volunteers, including staff from the North American Retail Hardware Association (NRHA), in the heart of one of Indianapolis’s most crime-ridden and neglected neighborhoods for a Fuller Center for Housing work blitz that would …
Read More »Lowe’s Develops Nationwide Partnership with Home Improvement Network Porch.com
Lowe’s is expanding its strategic partnership with Porch.com, an in-store resource to help homeowners find the right home improvement professionals for nearly any project outside of Lowe’s current installation services, to include every Lowe’s store in the U.S. Home improvement …
Read More »Strong Farm, Pet, Ranch Sales Spur True Value’s First-Quarter Growth
True Value today reported revenue of $331.5 million for the quarter ending March 29, an increase of 6.0 percent or $18.9 million over the same period a year ago. Strong sales in the farm, ranch, auto and pet, seasonal, plumbing …
Read More »Do it Best Corp. Names National Multi-Location Manager
Do it Best Corp. has named Gary Hoffmann to lead a business development team in the newly created role of National Multi-Location Sales and Business Development Manager, effective immediately. In this position, he’ll help the co-op further strengthen and support …
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