This week, The Home Depot announced it is buying Interline Brands, a leading national distributor and direct marketer of broad-line maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) products. The big-box retail chain is paying about $1.63 billion in cash in a deal expected …
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Do Consumers Know You Are Locally Owned?
While many consumers can recognize an independent home improvement store by its small-town feel and top-notch service, many don’t know a business is locally owned and operated if it uses national branding or has multiple locations. Customers may see a …
Read More »Motivate Millennials in the Workplace
Do you scratch your head when thinking about how to manage your millennial employees better? Do you have a hard time deciphering how to hire and retain workers from the generation at your business? For some suggested solutions, read the following tips from this …
Read More »Target Offers Experimental Smart Home Experience
This week, Target is unveiling a new project in San Francisco to give consumers a hands-on smart home experience. The Target Open House is part retail space, part lab and part meeting venue for the connected home tech community in San Francisco, according …
Read More »4 Reasons Home Depot Tops Lowe’s Web Sales
The Home Depot has consistently grown its e-commerce business, doing more than twice as much in sales online as Lowe’s did last year. Forbes offers suggestions for why The Home Depot is outpacing its top competitor in web sales: “(B)etter interconnectedness between …
Read More »House-Hasson Buys Long-Lewis Hardware
Regional hardware distributor House-Hasson bought Long-Lewis Hardware Company, finalizing the deal today. House-Hasson, which is based in Knoxville, Tennessee, will gain about $30 million in annual sales due to the purchase, boosting the distributor’s annual revenues above $200 million, according to the company. …
Read More »NRHA Hits the Road to Visit Independents
Independent We Stand, an organization that supports locally owned businesses, is taking to the road today to visit independents from Detroit to Boston – and the North American Retail Hardware Association (NRHA) is along for the ride. During the trip, Independent We Stand and NRHA …
Read More »True Value Makes Customer Service a Priority
During the month of June, True Value Company began hosting one-day certification training workshops for its members across the U.S. There will be 67 sessions held during June and July and more to come in August. The training workshops were announced at …
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