Profiles

Every retailer faces their own set of challenges. Suburban retailers may worry development is heating up away from the place they’ve called home for years. Urban retailers may fret over where to store a high-volume shipment without sacrificing space. No …

As an entrepreneur, how many hats can you wear? You may only have so much real estate up top, but it can seem like it takes a whole collection of headwear just to get through the day. Accountant, human resources …

Home Depot is a formidable competitor in the home improvement industry. By sales volume and number of store locations, the company is the largest retailer in the home improvement sector. Despite being known for its 104,000-square-foot stores, Home Depot has, …

To give readers additional insight into Do it Best Corp., Hardware Retailing profiled retailers who have grown their operations through the guidance and programs available through the co-op. Read about Ambridge Do it Best Home Center in Pennsylvania and Bliffert Lumber …

Click the picture to download a PDF of this story. By Chad Husted, chusted@nrha.org Finding the Time It’s perfectly normal for entrepreneurs and small business owners to focus the majority of their time and efforts on their stores and business efforts. Running an …

When a customer walks through the doors of HomCo Lumber & Hardware in Flagstaff, Arizona, they know they won’t be passed from person to person to get an answer to their question. But this wasn’t always the case. Over the …

Click the picture to download a PDF of this story. Onward and Upward By Kate Klein, kklein@nrha.org Ace Hardware Corp. is on a growth path that maintains its retailer-owned cooperative model, continues to pursue its core values and finds new, adaptive ways to …

From Famine to Flourish Brothers Martin and Art Ruggiero—owners of Desert Foothills Ace Hardware in Phoenix—were already business partners before most kids their age had moved on from their high school and college jobs. Their father, Al, had opened a …