- Personal commitment.
PERSONAL COMMITMENT How and when did you get into the hardware business? The "when" of the question was quite gradual and started about 1978. Our company had been operating a progressive locksmith company in Houston for 10 years and working with our commercial accounts on expansions and new construction. The ......
- Jack Rutherford: distributor
president.
JACK RUTHERFORD: DISTRIBUTOR PRESIDENT How and when did you get into the hardware business? In 1923, my father, J.H.S. Rutherford, began a retail hardware business in Cambridge, Ontario (at that time called Galt), which eventually became a representative agency. I joined this firm in 1960 after several years at C....
- 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 ......
- Scotty's Acquires 17 Hardware Stores
Scotty's Do It Best Hardware is acquiring 17 Do It Best hardware stores .
- Sears Adding Major Appliances To Most Hardware Stores
HOFFMAN ESTATES, ILL.— Pleased with the trial performance of white goods within select Sears Hardware stores, the company now plans to add majaps throughout most of the freestanding, 163-unit specialty chain, which it has renamed Sears Appliance and Hardware. The company, which currently operates 60 appliance and hardware outlets, began ......
- When the power grid goes down: Survivalists seek out
hardware store that serves Amish Country. (Opener).
Pull into the lot at Yoder's Shipshewana Hardware and, at first glance, it seems about like any other independent, small-town hardware store: some 14,000 square feet, tucked into a little shopping plaza, an affiliate of Fort Wayne-based Do It Best Corp. like a lot of Indiana's Mom and Pop hardware ......
- Lenders bracing for possible economic downturn in 2007.
Lenders across the nation are beginning to brace for a possible economic downturn, as expectations for the economy's performance fell in the third quarter following two quarters of relative optimism, according to a survey of lenders by Phoenix Management Service, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Phoenix Management's quarterly Lending Climate in America ......