{"id":7043,"date":"2016-05-26T09:55:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T09:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=7043"},"modified":"2016-05-26T09:55:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T09:55:54","slug":"lowes-rona-the-shape-of-the-industry-after-the-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2016\/05\/lowes-rona-the-shape-of-the-industry-after-the-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowe\u2019s + Rona: The Shape of the Industry after the Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s official. Lowe\u2019s, the second largest home center chain in the US finalized its acquisition of large Canadian hardware retailer Rona, Inc. on May 20.\u00a0 The move bolsters Lowe\u2019s position within the Canadian home center and hardware sector.<\/p>\n<p>From a relatively meager base of 43 supercenters, the combined Lowe\u2019s and Rona footprint now extends to 539 stores.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/email\/hardwarechains_insight.JPG\" alt=\"\" name=\"Cont_0\" width=\"526\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"20\" vspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Source:<\/em><\/strong><em> Chain Store Guide Home Center &amp; Hardware Chains Database.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Such a footing positions the combined companies to challenge Home Depot\u2019s top position within the Canadian market.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/email\/hardwarechains_insight2.JPG\" alt=\"\" name=\"Cont_0\" width=\"526\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"20\" vspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Source:<\/em><\/strong><em> Chain Store Guide Home Center &amp; Hardware Chains Database, company statements, industry reports. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fully leveraging its expanded store base and realizing economies of scale to best Home Depot isn\u2019t guaranteed. Within those 496 Rona stores lurk more than a dozen brands and mini-chains, identities that Lowe\u2019s so far plans to retain. In all likelihood, though, that collection of formats will have to be consolidated for Lowe\u2019s to maximize the potential that comes with this deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s official. Lowe\u2019s, the second largest home center chain in the US finalized its acquisition of large Canadian hardware retailer Rona, Inc. on May 20.\u00a0 The move bolsters Lowe\u2019s position within the Canadian home center and hardware sector. From a relatively meager base of 43 supercenters, the combined Lowe\u2019s and Rona footprint now extends to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2016\/05\/lowes-rona-the-shape-of-the-industry-after-the-deal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lowe\u2019s + Rona: The Shape of the Industry after the Deal<\/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":[10],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-7043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-hardware","tag-csg-exclusive","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7043","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=7043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}