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NEW YORK-Before pulling down the fan display and packing up the category for the season, retailers might consider keeping a few SKUs on the aisle through the fall and winter. [...]

SOLID ENTERPRISE risk management was behind one firm's recovery from the financial downturn, while another long-established outfit is just allowing the concept to percolate within its operation. Keith Ryan, vice [...]

Despite the recession, last year was a significant growth year for Ace Hardware. Ace retailers opened 92 new hardware stores throughout the United States and another 25 stores abroad. While [...]

An active skylight system brings the daylight indoors at Ace Hardware, in Martinez, Calif. In addition to distributing light evenly and over a large part of the approximate 12,000-sq.-ft. selling [...]

Ace Hardware has a strong commitment to give back to the communities it serves, both from a corporate and an individual store basis. The Ace Hardware Foundation was established in [...]

Ace wants to become the dominant brand in the convenience retail segment of the home improvement marketplace, and it is betting on its Vision 21 program to get it there. [...]

The best way to ensure that information technology (IT) stays consistent with corporate strategy is to place responsibility for portfolio management with the executives who manage particular business units. IT needs to be regarded as everybody's business.

* At its fall market in Kansas City Oct. 25-29, Ace Hardware Corp. reported to retailer members and nearly 200 prospects the state of operations for the year and gave [...]

* Few would challenge the statement that the success of the Ace Corp. depends heavily on its buyers. In the colorful tapestry of Ace operations that begins at many factories [...]

* In an industry that is highly competitive, Ace Hardware Corp. has maintained steady, upward growth. Sales for the third quarter are up 18 percent compared with the same quarter [...]

The world has changed radically, of course, since 1916 when he wrote the famous opening lines to his poem, Chicago, but Carl Sandburg's words still capture the pulse of the [...]

The career of Jerry Lochner, new NRHA president, is looked at in depth. His Ace Hardware in Sauk City, Wisconsin has grown tremendously over the years due to Jerry's planning and management. His management technique is explored, providing a good example to follow for other hardware store managers.

ACE HARDWARDE CORPORATION From its humble beginning in Chicago during the early 1920s, Ace Hardware Corporation today has grown to a full retail support company with more than 5,000 independent [...]

Ace Hardware Corp officials have announced the firm's newest growth initiatives. The new initiatives will be based on determining the preferences, needs, shopping habits and opinions of their customers. Ace will also introduce the 'Store 21 Concept,' a newer version of the 'Store of the Future' concept which was launched in 1985. The other growth initiatives include to motivate retailers to open branch stores, opening franchise stores and launching more company-owned stores in areas where there are no Ace retailers yet., Executives from Ace Hardware Corp. unveiled the company's latest growth initiatives and challenged retailers to 'join the charge' into the next millennium at the co-op's spring market in Los Angeles, [...]

Customers who make their way to the back of the Ace Hardware store in Walla Walla, Wash., may find some items they don't expect in an average hardware store, such [...]

While co-op executives maintain that larger wholesalers 'swap' dealers all the time, Oak Brook, IL-based Ace Hardware Corp. has used aggressive recruitment practices to convert a large number of strong [...]

Doug Gniadek is standing in the empty space where the plumbing department was a week ago. Lines along the floor--three decades of accumulated grit, sealed with floor wax--indicate where gondolas [...]

Henry Bomberger, co-owner of Bomberger's Store, a new 80,000-sq-ft operation in Lititz, PA, opens the conference room early so the 20 attendees , representing 11 local Ace stores, can help [...]

It took Roger Peterson, William Loftus, David Hodnick and the others a day and a half to spell out in detail the whats and whys of the New Age of [...]

Ace Hardware Corp. announced that it would shift its emphasis to the $25 billion- $40 billion do-it-yourself market in its semiannual conference in Oct. 1994. The buying group announced that it would remove members who do not measure up to its sales goal of generating $5 billion by the year 2000. The firm also announced a four-point marketing program for its members. New store formats and technologies will be introduced, costs and inventory returns will reduced, international sales will be promoted and current members will be assisted in building new store locations., NEW ORLEANS--Ace Hardware officials told members that it is time to move ahead aggressively on the Ace 2000 concept at its semiannual meeting here in October. The buying group also [...]

Ace Hardware officially opened its first store in Jordan on Oct. 17 Ace-Jordan now offers a selection of over 15,000 home improvement and general maintenance products that cater to a [...]

Anna McGivaren and Andrew Stewart of Cronheim Mortgage have arranged $15 million in permanent financing for Hawthorne Discount Plaza, a retail center located at 111 Wagaraw Road in Hawthorne, New [...]

ACE INTRODUCES RECOGNITION PROGRAM FOR DEALERS Ace Hardware dealers have been hearing a lot about the company's long-term plan to make its dealers the best in the business, called Ace [...]

Ace Hardware (acehardware.com) wants to improve customer service and reduce wait times through a new search and navigation platform it is deploying. The solution from Endeca (endeca.com) is expected to [...]

George Smith's family has been in the hardware business for more than 60 years, beginning with Yardville Supply Co.--which sells ready-mix concrete, hardware and LBM to area pros--and more recently [...]

Ace Hardware will use a CRM suite from the Teradata division of Dayton, Ohio-based NCR Corp. The suite includes campaign and promotion management, analytics and communications applications. Deployment is under [...]

At its recent spring convention in Washington, D.C., Ace Hardware executives reported on the state of the company's Vision 21 growth initiatives. Since Ace unveiled its plan last fall to [...]

At Ace Hardware Corp.'s spring buying market in Las Vegas, March 13-16, company executives shared their vision of the future as Ace retailers continue to step up their efforts at [...]

Ace Hardware Corp. will begin implementing UCCnet's item registration and data synchronization services. Ace joins more than 220 other supply- and demand-side trading partners as members of the UCCnet community. [...]

* At its spring convention and buying market held in Dallas March 20-24, Ace Hardware Corp. did not unveil a bundle of new programs to support its Vision 21 initiative [...]