The new logo in Hassett Hardware’s Redwood City, California, store is alive. The double-H logo is a vertical garden displayed on a wall in the store’s garden center, and is filled with succulent plants, which live for years and require …

Lowe’s Companies, Inc., announced the promotions of two executives. The company promoted Marci P. Grebstein to chief marketing officer, effective immediately. Lowe’s also promoted Erin K. Sellman to senior vice president of strategy, insights and planning. Both will report to Michael A. Jones, chief customer …

Two big boxes and two of the major home improvement cooperatives released third-quarter results last week, and sales were up across the board. Read the following articles for details on the financial performance of each of these home improvement businesses: Ace Hardware …

October home sales declined since September, but remained higher than in October 2014. Total existing-home sales, which are completed transactions on single-family homes, town homes, condominiums and co-ops, dropped 3.4 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.36 million in October from …

Ace Hardware Corp. today reported double-digit growth in revenue and net profits in the third quarter of 2015. Revenue was $1.3 billion, an increase of 13.2 percent from the third quarter of 2014. Net income for the quarter was $54.2 million, an increase of …

Lowe’s Companies, Inc., saw sales increases for the third quarter of 2015, and expects to end the fiscal year on a growth pattern. In quarter three, the company’s sales grew to $14.4 billion, an increase of 5 percent over the same period a year …

The Home Depot today reported sales increases in the third quarter and expectations of overall sales growth for fiscal year 2015. The quarter’s $21.8 billion in sales represented a 6.4 percent rise compared to the same period in 2014. In addition, comparable store sales in …

The lumber starts out as timber in Russian forests, where endangered tigers and leopards live – then the wood is stolen, taken to China and sold to Western companies that make furniture and flooring. Companies such as Lumber Liquidators, the flooring discounter headquartered in …