{"id":105,"date":"2012-08-14T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/2012\/08\/company-snapshot-orchard-supply-hardware-stores\/"},"modified":"2012-08-14T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T14:30:00","slug":"company-snapshot-orchard-supply-hardware-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2012\/08\/company-snapshot-orchard-supply-hardware-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Company Snapshot: Orchard Supply Hardware Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>Address:<\/strong><br \/>\n6450 Via del Oro<br \/>\nSan Jose, CA 95119-1211<\/p>\n<p><strong>Telephone:<\/strong><br \/>\n408 281-3500<\/p>\n<p><strong>Internet Homepage:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.osh.com\/\">http:\/\/www.osh.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Year Founded:<\/strong><br \/>\n1931<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Stores:<\/strong><br \/>\n88<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Annual Sales:<\/strong><br \/>\n$660,472,000<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senior Executive:<\/strong><br \/>\nMark\u00a0R.\u00a0Baker; President and CEO<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1931 during the Great Depression, much as the result of a pair of severe droughts, Orchard Supply Hardware (commonly and affectionately known as OSH) has long remained close to its humble community roots.\u00a0 With stores averaging 44,000 sq. feet OSH management long portrayed itself as an almost hybrid home center.\u00a0 Management took pride in the assumption that if customers did not find a needed product at its stores, it didn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n<p>Long considered a unique entity due to its vast size and product mix and a model for success within the industry, Orchard Supply Hardware was purchased by Sears in 1996.\u00a0 Shortly after this acquisition, Sears announced that its proprietary chain of hardware stores would be converted to the OSH model and eventually to the Orchard name.<\/p>\n<p>This conversion never actually took place.\u00a0 Through the years the OSH and Sears Hardware chains maintained a kinship but were essentially separate entities.\u00a0 In 2005 Sears sold a minority interest of OSH to Ares Management and announced expansion plans which never came to fruition.\u00a0 In late 2011 OSH was spun off by Sears Holdings and became a public company. \u00a0It is believed the company seeks to regain its strong community-based reputation and revert to the exemplary retailer it once was.<\/p>\n<p>In keeping with this recently reacquired positive theme, Orchard Supply Hardware will open a 50,000-sq.-ft. store in Torrance, Calif. next month, showcasing the company\u2019s new retail format.\u00a0 Interestingly, as if a blast from the past, the site of OSH\u2019s newest location will occupy a former Kmart store.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founded in 1931 during the Great Depression, much as the result of a pair of severe droughts, Orchard Supply Hardware (commonly and affectionately known as OSH) has long remained close to its humble community roots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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":[15],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-hardware","tag-snapshot","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}