News Daily updates and news from around the hardware and home improvement industry from the editors of Hardware Retailing magazine.  July 26, 2010 — Last week, hundreds of retailers, manufacturers, distributors and industry professionals traveled to Savannah, Ga., for the North American Retail Hardware Association’s (NRHA) Annual Convention and All-Industry Summit. Read more »Category: Headlines July 26, 2010 — Check out what Landscape Designer Margie Grace has to say about lawn and garden trends. Read more »Category: Did You Know?  July 26, 2010 — House-Hasson Hardware has named Steve Henry as the company’s new credit manager, announced President Don Hasson. Henry takes the place of Ken Hines, who is retiring this year after serving 31 years with House-Hasson. Read more »Category: People on the Move July 26, 2010 — The responsibility of lowering health care costs now falls squarely within the employers’ camp. Keeping people healthier longer and returning people to better health sooner are some of the best ways possible to lower employer health care costs. Read more »Category: News in Brief July 26, 2010 — Begin your agency relationship by sharing your business goals — as concretely as possible — with your agency. If you don’t have an in-house marketing director, your agency can translate your goals into marketing strategies and tactics that will be the blueprint to achieving your objectives.
Read more »Category: News in Brief July 26, 2010 — Griffon Corp. will buy Ames True Temper —the Camp Hill, Pa.-based manufacturer of non-powered lawn and garden products — for about $542 million. Read more »Category: Headlines July 26, 2010 — House-Hasson Hardware held one of its most successful summer dealer markets in the company’s 104-year history, apparently in part because of the weakened U.S. economy, says the company’s leader. Read more »Category: Headlines July 26, 2010 — Five months out, Sears Holdings Corp. is already harping on the holiday selling season. Read more »Category: Headlines July 22, 2010 — Although the increase is weak and still mainly confined to the coasts, the commercial real estate industry has seen an uptick in activity, say market insiders in New York, Boston, Los Angeles and Seattle according to MSNBC. Unfortunately, these small victories haven’t made their way to the heartland so industry experts are unsure what this rebound will bring. Read more »Category: News in Brief  July 19, 2010 — Originally created in 1990, “Our Three Pennies of Profit” retail training video helps independent retail hardware store, home improvement center and lumberyard owners and managers better communicate the fundamental elements of retail profit and loss to their employees. Read more »Category: Headlines |