- Around and About
Horizon Distribution marks 125th year In 1881, the hardware distributor known as Horizon Distribution Inc. began as the Weed & Rowe retail hardware store in then-Yakima City, Wash.—eight years before Washington became a state. In the 125 years since, the company, now in its fourth generation of family ownership, has ......
- Best man: Do It Best Corp., based in Fort Wayne, is a
$2.2 billion national hardware cooperative.
This isn't rocket science. It's hardware - hammers, nails, screwdrivers, paint. What could be cutting edge about a business as old and traditional as the neighborhood hardware store? Plenty. And in this business a lot of the innovations are coming from Fort Wayne, home of Do It Best Corp., a ......
- Group identification: the influence of group
membership on retail hardware cooperative members' perceptions
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Journal of Small Business Management 2004 42(2), pp. 155-173 Due to the increasing popularity of retail cooperatives in hardware retailing, a new competitive dynamic has emerged, a hybrid of intratype/intergroup competition. Individual members of one cooperative group now fight for market share with one or more members of competing cooperative ......
- Hardware Wholesalers Inc.
Don Wolf, president of Hardware Wholesalers Inc., started with the company in 1947 as an order filler in the warehouse. He has, in a manner of speaking, grown with the company-and the company has grown as dramatically as his career. Hardware Wholesalers got its start in 1944 when Arnold H....
- Scotty's Acquires 17 Hardware Stores
Scotty's Do It Best Hardware is acquiring 17 Do It Best hardware stores .
- An industry legend.
A charter member of DHI Richard Hudnut, DAHC, helped to establish our AH-4 course, which he still teaches today--25 years later. Mr. Hudnut also bas been retained as an independent consultant by BHAW for the past 25 yean. At 66, be is busier than ever, serving on 14 committees and ......
- The experience of a lifetime.
Can you imagine working the door and hardware industry for 70 years? Francis Crawford can. As an AHC and active member of DHI, he is still specifying hardware at age 84. For Crawford so far it's been a career of hard work, meeting the right People at the right time ......