The latest quarterly results from two of North America’s largest hardlines retailers this month bear out the concern that 2023 has become a year of slowdown…
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Wholesalers still face fallout from B.C. port strike, though LBM not as affected
The effects of the recent strike among British Columbia port workers are expected to have repercussions that will last for months to come…
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Kent builds modular housing for N.S. wildfire relief, social housing in P.E.I.
Kent Homes, the sister company of Kent Building Supplies, builds modular housing at its plant in Bouctouche, N.B…
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Orgill invests in growth with expanded field team and new DC
U.S. hardware wholesaler Orgill is making investments to elevate the company’s position in the home improvement industry…
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IKEA celebrates 80th anniversary, continues small store expansion
IKEA is 80 years old…
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RONA begins its Lowe’s rebrand with 10 stores in southwestern Ontario
The Lowe’s banner in Canada will soon be a thing of the past. On July 27, new RONA+ banners went up at 10 Lowe’s stores in southern and southwestern Ontario…
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Vendors are waiting to get product in—and out—because of B.C. port strike
The strike by workers at ports in British Columbia has been dragging on, and off, for almost four weeks…
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Independents’ market share plateaued post-Covid: Hardlines Retail Report
Canada’s retail home improvement industry returned to something like normality in 2022 after seeing exceptional growth in 2020 and 2021 due to the effects of the pandemic, the 2023 Hardlines Retail Report has found…
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Nova Scotia dealers cope with floods that have taken at least three lives
In what some dealers are calling the worst storm they’ve seen in their lives, certain parts of Nova Scotia got hit by up to 250 mm of rainfall last week…
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Retailers must provide “unified engagement,” says RCC panelist
Online sales in Canada dropped by eight percent in the first quarter of 2023…
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