{"id":11849,"date":"2019-03-25T09:45:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T13:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=11849"},"modified":"2019-03-25T09:45:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T13:45:56","slug":"datatrac-home-center-hardware-chains-march-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2019\/03\/datatrac-home-center-hardware-chains-march-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Home Center and Hardware Chains \u2013 March 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Personnel Updates<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Do it Best Corp<\/strong>.<strong> (145)<\/strong> has named three of its senior sales and business development leaders to new roles. Rob Schmiedel will now serve as the company\u2019s Sales Operations Manager, Greg Fuller is the National Sales Manager and John Wade is the Strategic Account Manager.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Industry Insight<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0PrimeSource Building Products, Inc<\/strong>. announced it will expand its Asian operations with a joint venture in Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Mergers and Acquisitions<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Boise Cascade LLC<\/strong> has reached an agreement to acquire American Lumber Distributors and Brokers, Inc., headquartered in Birmingham, AL. The acquisition is expected to close in the second quarter of 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Real Estate<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0ABC Supply Co. Inc<\/strong>. recently announced it has opened a new location in Junction City, KS.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0The Gordon Lumber Company<\/strong> announced that it will consolidate two \u201credundant\u201d retail operations. The company\u2019s limited service Bellevue and Bowling Green lumberyards will be consolidated into full-line contractor and retail lumberyards in Fremont, Genoa, Huron and Port Clinton.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Tractor Supply Co<\/strong>. opened a new distribution center in the Frankfort, NY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personnel Updates \u2022\u00a0Do it Best Corp. (145) has named three of its senior sales and business development leaders to new roles. Rob Schmiedel will now serve as the company\u2019s Sales Operations Manager, Greg Fuller is the National Sales Manager and John Wade is the Strategic Account Manager. \u00a0 Industry Insight \u2022\u00a0PrimeSource Building Products, Inc. announced&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2019\/03\/datatrac-home-center-hardware-chains-march-2019\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DATATRAC: Home Center and Hardware Chains \u2013 March 2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-11849","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\/11849","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}