- Newfoundland and Labrador dealer Notre Dame Agencies adds 10th location
- Could Ace Hardware buy True Value in the U.S.?
- Lowe’s Canada CEO: ignore online selling at your peril
- Shades of Ikea: Target and Amazon expand their private-label hardlines brands
- PLUS: Lowe’s Canada partners with Canadian Red Cross, Home Depot to purchase Compact Power Equipment, Walmart’s “On-Time, In-Full” deadline looms, Gracious Home bought, Richelieu Hardware sales rise, new hire at BMR, Bruce White retires at Home Hardware, housing starts, and more!
- The big get bigger: Industry’s Top Four keep consolidating the market
- Jim Caldwell departs Lowe’s Canada, Reno-Depot’s Guy Beaumier steps in
- Cologne’s hardware and garden trade fairs: a great opportunity for North Americans
- Canadian Tire expands customer product testing to enhance online reviews
- PLUS: Lowe’s Canada joins with Habitat, RONA and Home Hardware among most trusted brands, Kent named a “champion”, Sears launches appliance and mattress store, Amazon Prime popular in Canada, CGC celebrates 100th anniversary of Sheetrock, building permits hit record high, Costco sales, Jacuzzi buys Canadian company, and more!
- Home Improvement eRetailer Summit: tools for our industry to succeed online
- Home Hardware launches campaign built around project selling for millennials
- Lowe’s completes acquisition of MRO supply company
- With tariffs about to be imposed, feds vow to fight softwood duties
- PLUS: Lowe’s store introduces universal contractor charge account, Ace celebrates grand opening in Central Ontario, Canada Day message from FCL, Home Depot faces frivolous class action suit, fifth RONA store for Ontario dealer, Home Hardware helps Quebecers on moving day, Canadian Tire commemorates Canada’s 150th, and more!
- BMR’s renovation of Potvin & Bouchard store part of a wider initiative
- First RONA conversion to the Lowe’s banner opens in Edmonton
- Home Hardware’s growth strategy: new members and larger store footprints
- As fortunes tumble, Sears Canada obtains bankruptcy protection
- PLUS: Home Hardware renews partnership with Blue Jays, new Ace store in Ontario, Boulanger celebrates its 75th, Lowe’s to open in Winnipeg, LBM retail up again in April, Beauti-Tone and the great outdoors, Tembec shares sold, house sales, and more!
- Kenroc at 50: there for the birth of the drywall industry
- Sears Canada: is the end nigh?
- Pay attention to change: what we learned at the Global DIY Summit
- Appointment notice at Hardlines
- PLUS: RCR restructures sales force, Intertape to buy Cantech, Home Hardware stores make changes, Ikea to double store count, Lowe’s lays off in Mooresville, housing starts slip, HBC takes a hit, Ace scores with customer satisfaction, and more!
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