This week, Orgill Inc. announced plans to expand upon its network of distribution facilities with the addition of an approximately half-million-square-foot distribution center located in Post Falls, Idaho. Orgill has signed an agreement to acquire the facility and is expecting …
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True Value Reports Growing Sales in Q2
This week, True Value Company announced its second quarter results for fiscal 2016, with gross billings of $585.1 million, up 2 percent or $11.4 million from the same period a year ago. The company also reported revenue of $438.7 million, …
Read More »STIHL Addresses Future Skills Gap With Manufacturing Camp
It started with learning how to conduct time studies and solder, morphed into lessons on team dynamics and production planning and ended with a robot building competition. Last week, STIHL Inc. hosted its fifth Annual Manufacturing Technology Summer Camp in …
Read More »Moving Forward With World and Main Market
The World and Main Fall Market last week presented retailers with opportunities to connect with each other, meet with vendors and buy products at special prices. The buying show, which is World and Main’s first Houston market since retiring the Handy Hardware name and branding in January, …
Read More »Hardware Business Surpasses 170 Years of Service
When John L. Clark opened Clark’s Farm Supplies in 1845, he likely had no inkling that his family would continue to supply the Ellicott City, Maryland, community with quality products and project advice nearly two centuries later. Now known as Clarks Ace …
Read More »Store Cashing in on ‘Pokemon Go’ Craze
The mural on the side of Maxbauer Ace Hardware depicts Traverse City, Michigan—but when “Pokemon Go” players go to the store, they see a digital cartoon character on the wall. And that’s OK with the staff at Maxbauer Ace. When …
Read More »Hardware Stores Support Officers After Dallas Sniping
When a sniper shot 12 police officers, killing five, at a protest July 7 in Dallas, the community’s reaction was horror. And solidarity. “Everybody was just so moved that everybody wanted to know, ‘What can we do?'” Andrea Ridout, owner of Gecko …
Read More »Banks Pushing to Increase Debit Card Swipe Fees
Banks are pushing to change a cap on debit card swipe fees that the Federal Reserve implemented in 2011. However, 89 percent of consumers believe the “swipe fee limits should not be undone,” according to a survey by the National Retail Federation. Additionally, 84 percent of …
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