{"id":6992,"date":"2016-05-19T15:48:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T15:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=6992"},"modified":"2016-05-19T15:48:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T15:48:41","slug":"datatrac-home-center-and-hardware-chains-may-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2016\/05\/datatrac-home-center-and-hardware-chains-may-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Home Center and Hardware Chains \u2013 May 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

DATA<\/span><\/strong>TRAC <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>84 Lumber<\/strong> promoted Rich Scalise to Director of Inventory Management and Tom McCartney to VP Human Resources.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Do It Best <\/strong>has promoted Jason Hipskind to Manager of Regional Sales and Business Development.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Tractor Supply<\/strong> has promoted Steve Barbarick to President while continuing as Chief Merchandising Officer.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Alexander Lumber<\/strong> is celebrating its 125th<\/sup> anniversary. The family owned business has 20 locations and will be celebrating throughout all locations.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Friedman’s Home Improvement <\/strong>is celebrating their 70th<\/sup> anniversary throughout the company\u2019s four locations.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Lowe\u2019s<\/strong> is one step closer to acquiring RONA<\/strong>. Lowe\u2019s<\/strong> has received approval under the Investment Canada Act and clearance from the Competition Bureau. The closing of the transaction should take place on May 20th<\/sup>, 2016.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Marv’s True Value Building Center<\/strong> is celebrating their <\/strong>50th<\/sup> anniversary with in-store events and sales on May 20th<\/sup> and 21st<\/sup>, 2016.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Cedar Creek <\/strong>has acquired UBS<\/strong> (Universal Building Specialties) of Lakeland, FL.; this brings the company\u2019s <\/strong>total location count to 26 in 35 states.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Costello\u2019 Ace Hardware <\/strong>has opened their largest location yet. The new location is in Lincoln Park, NY at 261 Comly Rd. and is 30,000 sq. ft.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Sears Holdings <\/strong>has opened a new test format store in Ft Collins, CO; the new format Sears Appliances<\/strong> is 10,000 sq. ft. and is offering the top 10 appliance brands and interactive kitchen design displays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DATATRAC Personnel Updates \u2022 84 Lumber promoted Rich Scalise to Director of Inventory Management and Tom McCartney to VP Human Resources. \u2022 Do It Best has promoted Jason Hipskind to Manager of Regional Sales and Business Development. \u2022 Tractor Supply has promoted Steve Barbarick to President while continuing as Chief Merchandising Officer.   Industry Insight… Continue reading DATATRAC: Home Center and Hardware Chains \u2013 May 2016<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-6992","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\/6992","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}