{"id":2849,"date":"2013-04-25T10:07:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T10:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=2849"},"modified":"2013-04-25T10:07:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T10:07:28","slug":"company-snapshot-ace-hardware-corp-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2013\/04\/company-snapshot-ace-hardware-corp-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Company Snapshot: Ace Hardware Corp."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Address:<\/strong><br \/>\n2200 Kensington Ct.<br \/>\nOak Brook, IL 60523-2100<\/p>\n<p><strong>Telephone:<\/strong><br \/>\n630 990-6600<\/p>\n<p><strong>Internet Homepage:<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acehardware.com\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acehardware.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.acehardware.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Annual Sales:<\/strong><br \/>\n$ 3,840,900,000<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senior Executives:<\/strong><br \/>\nDavid Ziegler- Chairman of the Board<br \/>\nJohn Venhuizen- President, CEO<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the long reigning leader of retailer cooperatives completed a changing of the guard as John Venhuizen was named President and CEO.\u00a0 Mr. Venhuizen replaced the highly esteemed Ray Griffith who served as President, CEO of the co-op from 2005.\u00a0 Mr. Griffith had stepped down from the presidency last September in favor of Mr. Venhuizen and completed the transfer of power as Mr. Venhuizen acceded to the CEO position earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Under Mr. Griffith\u2019s watch Ace consistently ranked high in customer satisfaction while maintaining its number one ranking in Chain Store Guide\u2019s Index of Leading Companies in terms of Buying Groups\/Co-ops.\u00a0\u00a0 In 2012, Ace ranked \u201cHighest in Customer Satisfaction among Home Improvement Stores for the Sixth Consecutive Year,\u201d according to J.D. Power and Associates.<\/p>\n<p>In December of last year Ace acquired Westlake Hardware one of its most prominent members.\u00a0 At the time of the acquisition, Ace announced that Westlake would essentially remain autonomous as a wholly owned subsidiary with its executive administration firmly left in place.\u00a0 Thus far Ace has kept its word as Westlake recently opened a bold new prototype which may well serve as an inspiration for Ace locations worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, the long reigning leader of retailer cooperatives completed a changing of the guard as John Venhuizen was named President and CEO.  Mr. Venhuizen replaced the highly esteemed Ray Griffith who served as President, CEO of the co-op from 2005. <\/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-2849","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\/2849","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=2849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}