{"id":9936,"date":"2017-07-20T09:07:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T09:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=9936"},"modified":"2017-07-20T09:07:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T09:07:54","slug":"datatrac-home-center-and-hardware-chains-july-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2017\/07\/datatrac-home-center-and-hardware-chains-july-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Home Center and Hardware Chains \u2013 July 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u2022 <\/span>84 Lumber<\/strong> named the individuals who will head up three of its four newly realigned divisions – Billy Ball (VP, Southeast), Dave Dahl (VP, Mid-Atlantic) and Rob Woodrow (VP, Southwest).<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Ace Hardware Corporatio<\/strong>n appointed Lisa Doyle (formerly of Lowe\u2019s<\/strong>) as Head of Retail Training.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Cedar Creek Inc.<\/strong> brought in Mike Wardlow as Director, Engineered Wood Products.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Do it Best Corp.<\/strong> named John Wade to the newly created post of National Product Sales and New Business Development Manager.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Huttig Building Products<\/strong> named Kevin Brennan as its new VP, West Region.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 <\/span>84 Lumber<\/strong> has reorganized operations into four divisions, Central, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast and Southwest.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Sears Canada<\/strong> entered bankruptcy and announced the closing of 45 stores, including Sears, Sears Home and Sears Outlet locations.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>True Value<\/strong> has dismissed reports of a potential sale of the company as \u201crumors,\u201d while both Ace Hardware<\/strong> and Do It Best Corp.<\/strong> have made statements of interest should the rumors prove true.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Westlake Ace Hardware<\/strong> reached the 100-store milestone with the acquisition of two Omaha-area stores.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 <\/span>ABC Supply Co.<\/strong> acquired Capstone Supply, expanding its reach in the Cincinnati and Columbus, OH markets.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>The Home Depot<\/strong> is set to acquire longtime partner Compact Power Equipment in a deal that will close in Q2.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Lowe’s Companies<\/strong> completed the acquisition of Maintenance Supply Headquarters.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

\u2022 <\/span>Kuiken Brothers<\/strong> completed the expansion of its Emerson, NJ facilities.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Sears<\/strong> debuted a new banner \u2013 Sears Appliances & Mattresses \u2013 in Pharr, TX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Personnel Updates \u2022 84 Lumber named the individuals who will head up three of its four newly realigned divisions – Billy Ball (VP, Southeast), Dave Dahl (VP, Mid-Atlantic) and Rob Woodrow (VP, Southwest). \u2022 Ace Hardware Corporation appointed Lisa Doyle (formerly of Lowe\u2019s) as Head of Retail Training. \u2022 Cedar Creek Inc. brought in Mike… Continue reading DATATRAC: Home Center and Hardware Chains \u2013 July 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":[11],"class_list":["post-9936","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\/9936","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=9936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}