The home improvement industry’s biggest gathering offered three days packed with education, entertainment, networking and ceremonies celebrating outstanding retailers, products and companies. The National Hardware Show® hosted its 70th show May 5-7 in Las Vegas, and introduced some changes, such as …
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Building Material Holding Company is buying the assets and operations of VNS Corporation, one of the largest building material and service providers in the southeast. BMC, which is headquartered in Atlanta, is a leading provider of building materials and construction …
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Amazon doesn’t just sell products anymore. The online marketplace has branched out and now sells services, including electrical and plumbing work, home repairs and gutter cleaning. “Amazon Home Services features handpicked pros offering upfront pricing on pre-packaged services with helpful reviews from customers that …
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Lumber Liquidators is facing a blitz of lawsuits related to accusations that some of the company’s laminated flooring contains unsafe quantities of formaldehyde. CBS reported March 1 that the flooring company sold laminate flooring with higher levels of formaldehyde than permitted by California’s …
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The Home Depot, the world’s largest home center chain, ended 2014 with sales of more than $83 billion — growth that reflects changes to the company’s business strategies. For example, the 2014 comp-store sales increase of 5.3 percent shows the results of Home Depot’s rededication …
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Fiskars, a global supplier of home and garden tools, has begun a marketing tour of the U.S. to allow consumers to try its products. The company, which is headquartered in Finland, partnered with an experiential and event marketing business to launch …
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Dedicating time to formal employee training develops sales associates who are knowledgeable, sell products well and deliver excellent customer service. Yet fewer than half of independent home improvement retailers who participated in North American Retail Hardware Association’s 2014 Employee Compensation Report provide formal employee …
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Today, Westlake Ace Hardware, a subsidiary of Ace Hardware Corporation, announced it has acquired four hardware stores located in Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska. The 110-year-old Westlake Ace Hardware chain acquired all four Watkins Hardware locations, bringing Westlake Ace Hardware’s total store …
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