{"id":10891,"date":"2018-08-23T10:51:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T14:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=10891"},"modified":"2018-08-23T10:51:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T14:51:25","slug":"datatrac-home-center-hardware-chains-august-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2018\/08\/datatrac-home-center-hardware-chains-august-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Home Center and Hardware Chains \u2013 August 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Personnel Updates <\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 Huttig (16)<\/strong> welcomed back former CFO Philip Keipp as Senior Financial Consultant.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Lowe\u2019s (92) <\/strong>hired Joe McFarland as Exec VP of Stores. McFarland has previously worked with Lowe\u2019s CEO Marvin Ellison at Home Depot<\/strong> and JCPenney. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Lowe\u2019s (92) <\/strong>hired Donald Frieson away from Sam\u2019s Club.<\/strong> Frieson is the new Exec VP of Supply Chain.<\/p>\n

\u2022 PPG (32) <\/strong>promoted Anne Foulkes to Senior VP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary and William Schaupp to VP and Controller.<\/p>\n

\u2022 PrimeSource Building Products (12)<\/strong> made a number of executive-level hires including Chris Peetz as Exec VP of Operations, Todd Huston as Exec VP of Product Development and Tim Michel as CIO. Scott Smith was promoted to Chief Commercial Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tractor Supply (33)<\/strong> promoted Steve Barbarick to President and COO and Rob Mills to Exec VP, Chief Technology, Digital Commerce and Strategy Officer.<\/p>\n

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Industry Insight <\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 Home Depot <\/strong>is now carrying Bosch appliances.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Lumber Liquidators<\/strong> is relocating its headquarters to Richmond, VA from Toano, VA. The company is also selling its products-finishing business and equipment.<\/p>\n

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Mergers and Acquisitions <\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 ABC Supply <\/strong>acquired roofing distributor Alliance Wholesales Supply (Johnstown, PA) and Landis Supply (Vineland, NJ).<\/p>\n

\u2022 Detering Co. of Houston <\/strong>acquired Weatherford Door & Window Co. (Bryan, TX).<\/p>\n

\u2022 Foundation Building Materials <\/strong>acquired Ciesco, a distributor of drywall, ceiling products and insulation with six locations in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region.<\/p>\n

\u2022 L&W Supply<\/strong> acquired Rose & Walker Supply (Columbus, IN) and its five locations.<\/p>\n

\u2022 US Lumber Group <\/strong>plans to acquire Alexandria Moulding (Alexandria, ON).<\/p>\n

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Real Estate <\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 Blain\u2019s Farm & Fleet <\/strong>will open its 4th<\/sup> Michigan store in Holland Township next year.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Builders FirstSource <\/strong>opened a location in Albany, NY.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Busy Beaver <\/strong>will open a new store in New Caslte, PA in September.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Lowe\u2019s <\/strong>opened a store in Overland Park, KS on a site last occupied by Kmart.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Westlake Ace Hardware <\/strong>will open a store in Bonner Springs, KS this fall.<\/p>\n

\u2022 WW Building Supply <\/strong>plans to replace its Newfane, VT location with a new 17,000+ sq. ft. facility.<\/p>\n

Just because we don\u2019t mention it here doesn\u2019t mean it didn\u2019t happen \u2013 or we didn\u2019t capture it. In the past four weeks, we\u2019ve updated more than 135 companies in the Homecenter Operators & Hardware Chains Database, with many of those companies\u2019 records updated at multiple points. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Personnel Updates \u2022 Huttig (16) welcomed back former CFO Philip Keipp as Senior Financial Consultant. \u2022 Lowe\u2019s (92) hired Joe McFarland as Exec VP of Stores. McFarland has previously worked with Lowe\u2019s CEO Marvin Ellison at Home Depot and JCPenney. \u2022 Lowe\u2019s (92) hired Donald Frieson away from Sam\u2019s Club. Frieson is the new Exec… Continue reading DATATRAC: Home Center and Hardware Chains \u2013 August 2018<\/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":[1],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-10891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-eupdate","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10891","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=10891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}