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by YIREN LU Illustration / ZOHAR LAZAR Matthew Mazzone grew up stocking shelves and sweeping the floor at Mazzone Hardware in Brooklyn, a red brick storefront on a corner lot [...]

By EDWARD ROBERT McCLELLAND Illustration by NICK LU (PHOTOGRAPH: BRIAN CASSELLA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE) GILLMAN’S ACE HARDWARE, ON MILWAUKEE AVENUE IN LOGAN SQUARE, WAS A relic of an older Chicago. Opened in [...]

Don't get ticked off during slow months. Use your downtime as a practice manager or practice owner for something not so fun but super-useful: improving your drug inventory processes. When [...]

IT WAS 1956 when brothers Lee and Glen Miner opened Miner's Ace Hardware and Wally Lewis became their first employee. After 66 years of loyal service to the company, Lewis [...]

Inland Property Management reported the signing of two leases with Ace Hardware and Verizon Wireless at Old National Marketplace in the City of South Fulton, Georgia, approximately 12 miles southwest [...]

Retailer showcase: Ace Hardware Ace sees growth, continues to expand with new programs and services. From paint to fundraisers to acquisitions, 2014 was a busy year for Ace Hardware Corp. [...]

Because McAuliffe's Ace Hardware in Marysville, Ohio, is surrounded by big-box stores--Lowe's, Home Depot, Menards, Walmart and more--the store's employees knew they'd need to find a way to stand out [...]

Ever since 1924, when Ace Hardware, 'The Helpful Place,' was founded, the company has been dedicated to bringing quality products to its loyal customers. In addition to working with thousands [...]

While the job description varies by retail business, the typical hardware or home improvement store manger must wear a lot of different hats. One minute they might be building a [...]

In addition to growing the business into new or underserved markets through its expansion programs, Ace's vision is to help retailers grow sales and profitability by 'aligning all our retail [...]

HELPFUL' IS THE ADJECTIVE ON WHICH ACE Hardware Corp. has built its success. It considers itself the 'helpful place' for home improvement projects and staffs its stores with 'helpful folks.' [...]

Ace Hardware Corp celebrates its 75th anniversary in 1999, having been founded in 1924 by Richard Reese and other Chicago-area hardware dealers. In the coming 21st century, incumbent Pres and CEO David Hodnik aims to fast track company growth to cope with the rapidly changing and consolidating home improvement retailing industry. As a first step, Ace Hardware Corp has agreed to merge its lumber, building materials and millwork division with Builder Marts of America., Ace Hardware Celebrates Past with Sights Set on Future Growth Years As the story goes, one day in 1924 a Greek peddler walked into Richard Hesse's hardware store on Clark [...]

Byline: Teya Vitu As the intersection of Meridian and Deer Flat roads evolves, so evolves the city of Kuna. Four years ago, fields occupied three sides of that intersection and [...]

Byline: David Winzelberg Rhode Island-based discount retailer Ocean State Job Lot will open a new store in Centereach in November. It will be the chain's second Long Island location, following [...]

TO SUCCESSFULLY protect their organizations in an increasingly risky and litigious world, it's imperative that risk managers and in-house counsel partner closely with each other. NU spoke with several members [...]

A recent survey conducted by Chart Your Course International, a management consulting firm that specializes in employee retention, shows 60 percent of the workforce is considering leaving their current job [...]

The Corporate Store program at Ace Hardware began in 1995 as a way to protect markets but has since grown into a successful business model that enables Ace to experiment, [...]

At its buying market in Atlanta in October, executives from Ace Hardware Corp. announced that, moving forward, the co-op was forming two separate and distinct groups of retailers--those who have [...]

Last October, 3,000 Ace members filed into the New Orleans Superdome to hear company executives deliver what was billed as 'a major announcement.' The day-and-a-half-long presentation led off with quotes [...]

From behind the wheel of his blue Dodge van, Kriss Brown can reach car phone, three notebooks and a coin changer. This morning at 7:45,the van--registered as Ace 1082 in [...]

By Bridget McCrea Achieve exceptional savings from transportation spend management The fact that companies can shave 10 to 20 percent off of their annual freight bills by simply developing and [...]

Since it was founded in 1924 by a small group of Chicago hardware store owners, Ace Hardware Corp., has had quite an impact on the retail landscape. Early on, for [...]

Building Relationships for the '90s Florida Retailer Group Picks Up Steam For years, retailers have banded together, usually on an informal basis, to share ideas and keep up on the [...]

David Hannon Like a lot of retailers, Ace Hardware's logistics organization uses a private fleet of trucks to ship from its distribution centers to stores, and had good visibility into [...]

Two Boise-area Ace Hardware stores changed hands last week, less than a year after they were opened. Skillman LLC, of Folsom, Calif., acquired the 16,600-square-foot store at the northwest corner [...]

For Ace Hardware, Oak Brook, Ill., which does business in 70 countries, the need to accommodate 13-digit bar codes in North America was clear, said John L. Poss, Ace's merchandising [...]

Local retailers forced to alter strategies when confronted with national entries The influx of big box chain stores has forced some Wichita retailers to rethink the way they do business. [...]

When you walk through the doors of Bates Ace Hardware, you feel a major difference in the attitude of the people working there. When a customer asks for an item, [...]

Online procurement, once the domain of proprietary company extranets, is being transformed by the growth of electronic marketplaces, trading hubs, and online auctions. As a result, the multibillion-dollar industry is […]

* Five years ago at its fall convention in New Orleans, Ace Hardware Corp. announced plans for the accelerated growth of the co-op with its 'New Age of Ace' initiatives. [...]

* Tom and Lisa Utley of Atlanta became Ace Hardware Corp.'s first franchise owners earlier this month when they took the reins of the North Bridges Ace Hardware Store in [...]