Lowe’s today announced an agreement to buy Canadian home improvement retailer and distributor RONA Inc. in a $2.3 billion deal, dramatically enlarging the U.S. company’s presence in Canada. “The transaction is expected to accelerate Lowe’s growth strategy by significantly expanding …
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For the seventh time, the Blish-Mize Co., based in Atchison, Kansas, was honored as Supplier of the Year by Home Lumber & Supply Co. Home Lumber, which is based in Ashland, Kansas, and has 16 locations throughout the state, is …
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House-Hasson Hardware is moving to stop issuing checks, invoices, and statements to its vendors and dealers. Not in the mail, anyway. “We’re phasing in a program we call ‘go green’ through the balance of 2015 to make all payments electronically …
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This week, PRO Group, Inc. announced that Lancaster will join PRO Group as its newest distributor member effective Jan. 1. PRO Group and Lancaster are excited about the opportunities this relationship will bring to both organizations. Over the coming months, PRO Group will be …
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An annual conference brought together more than 400 of the nation’s top suppliers and distributors that serve the independent home improvement industry. The 2016 Executive Planning Conference, hosted by Charlotte-based Distribution America (DA) and Denver-based PRO Group, was held Nov. 17-19 in …
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To download a PDF of the complete 2015 Market Measure, please complete the form at the bottom of the page. It doesn’t take an Ivy League economist to explain what happens when consumers have more money in their pockets, their homes’ …
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This year has been big for House-Hasson Hardware, which completed more new stores and remodels for dealers in 2015 than in any other year in the company’s history. House-Hasson reached store-set records for itself in 2013 and 2014, but this past …
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Orgill, Inc. has been one of the industry’s fastest-growing distributors over the last several decades. During this time, the Memphis-based company began looking at ways it could help solve some of the challenges that it felt retailers were facing when …
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