{"id":10127,"date":"2017-08-17T08:46:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T08:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=10127"},"modified":"2017-08-17T08:46:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T08:46:40","slug":"datatrac-home-center-and-hardware-chains-august-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2017\/08\/datatrac-home-center-and-hardware-chains-august-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Home Center and Hardware Chains \u2013 August 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Personnel Updates<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Boise Cascade <\/strong>promoted Jill Twedt to VP of Legal.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Builders FirstSource <\/strong>CEO Floyd Sherman will retire at the end of the year. Current President and COO Chad Crow will take over as CEO.<\/p>\n

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Industry Insight<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Louisiana-Pacific <\/strong>acquired International Barrier Technology Inc., a flame-retardant coatings manufacturer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Lowe\u2019s <\/strong>is laying off an undisclosed number of delivery personnel across the US as it switches to the use of third-party delivery providers. Lowe\u2019s has yet to comment on which locations are affected and the total number of layoffs.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Sears Holdings <\/strong>announced that it is expanding distribution of Kenmore appliances by selling them on Amazon.com. The company will also synch its Kenmore Smart appliances with Amazon’s voice-command Alexa program.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>US LBM Holdings <\/strong>filed a preliminary prospectus with the SEC in preparation for its initial public offering.<\/p>\n

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Mergers and Acquisitions<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Foundation Building Materials <\/strong>acquired American Wal-Board, LLC.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Guerry Lumber Co. <\/strong>(Savanah, GA) acquired HomeSouth Architectural, <\/strong>a <\/strong>provider of custom trim, millwork, and architectural windows and doors.<\/p>\n

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Real Estate<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>84 Lumber <\/strong>officially opened a new Tampa-area location in Ruskin, FL and a new location in Greensboro, SC.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Ace Hardware<\/strong> member Costello\u2019s Ace Hardware opened its 29th<\/sup> location Melville, NY.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Carter Lumber <\/strong>is building a new Kight Home Center<\/strong> in Bowling Green, KY.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Ganahl Lumber Co. <\/strong>opened its 10th<\/sup> location in Torrance, CA.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>McCoy\u2019s Building Supply<\/strong> purchased a reload facility in Burnet, TX.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Parr Lumber <\/strong>acquired a property that will become a second Quality Truss <\/strong>location.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Tractor Supply Co.<\/strong> opened 14 new stores in its second quarter. The company also broke ground in Frankfort, NY on what will be its eighth DC.<\/p. \n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Personnel Updates \u2022 Boise Cascade promoted Jill Twedt to VP of Legal. \u2022 Builders FirstSource CEO Floyd Sherman will retire at the end of the year. Current President and COO Chad Crow will take over as CEO.   Industry Insight \u2022 Louisiana-Pacific acquired International Barrier Technology Inc., a flame-retardant coatings manufacturer. \u2022 Lowe\u2019s is laying… Continue reading DATATRAC: Home Center and Hardware Chains \u2013 August 2017<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-10127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-hardware","tag-eupdate","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}