{"id":8637,"date":"2017-01-19T12:33:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T12:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=8637"},"modified":"2017-01-19T12:33:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T12:33:19","slug":"datatrac-home-center-and-hardware-chains-january-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2017\/01\/datatrac-home-center-and-hardware-chains-january-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Home Center and Hardware Chains \u2013 January 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Personnel Updates<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Ace Hardware Corp<\/strong>. VP of Distribution Rick Whitson retired.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Busy Beaver Corporation<\/strong> promoted Adam Gunnett to Director of IT.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Mills Fleet Farm<\/strong> has named Wayne Sales, a member of the company\u2019s Board, as its Interim CEO.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Industry Insight<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Lowe\u2019s <\/strong>is said to be close to embarking on a limited number of layoffs according to CNBC reports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Sears Holdings <\/strong>will sell the Craftsman brand to tool giant Stanley Black &amp; Decker.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Mergers and Acquisitions<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Beacon Roofing Supply Inc<\/strong>. acquired American Building &amp; Roofing, Inc. of Washington state and Eco Insulation Supply of Connecticut in separate deals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Dunn-Edwards <\/strong>agreed to merge with Nippon Paints Holdings. Dunn-Edwards leadership will remain in place and it will be \u201cbusiness as usual\u201d according to the company. The move provides Nippon Paints with a partner to grow its presence in the US.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Real Estate<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>The Tile Shop <\/strong>entered the Washington, DC market for the first time with the opening of a new store.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Tractor Supply Co<\/strong>. plans to expand its Waverly, NE distribution center and open a new store adjacent to the DC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personnel Updates \u2022 Ace Hardware Corp. VP of Distribution Rick Whitson retired. \u2022 Busy Beaver Corporation promoted Adam Gunnett to Director of IT. \u2022 Mills Fleet Farm has named Wayne Sales, a member of the company\u2019s Board, as its Interim CEO. &nbsp; Industry Insight \u2022 Lowe\u2019s is said to be close to embarking on a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2017\/01\/datatrac-home-center-and-hardware-chains-january-2017\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DATATRAC: Home Center and Hardware Chains \u2013 January 2017<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-8637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-hardware","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8637","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=8637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}