The tasting contest at Gemmen’s Do it Best Home & Hardware began as an experiment to draw attention to the store’s many canning products. “We have a large canning department that we like to show off,” owner Andrew Gemmen says. …

After about nine months of public scrutiny and a leadership overhaul, Lumber Liquidators has named a new CEO to lead a company turnaround. The new CEO, John Presley, was chairman of the lumber discounter’s board of directors and will remain a …

Helping another local business was a customer service opportunity in multiple ways for Miner’s Ace Hardware. Talley Farms in Arroyo Grande, California, approached Miner’s Ace, which has seven stores in California, with a request: turn the seven Ace stores into …

Patricia Anawalt, who died in October at age 91, was a former UCLA anthropologist and chairman of Anawalt Lumber in Los Angeles. The lumber company was founded in 1923 and is still family owned. The business has four retail locations in …

Homes burned to ash, 150-year-old trees vanished as if they had never grown and soot blackened the countryside behind wildfires that spread through tens of thousands of acres in Northern California. At least one local hardware store owner fought the …

The 99th birthday of Cole Hardware founder Dave Karp was a reason for the Karp family and store staff to be grateful this year — and his Oct. 25 death was the loss of the company’s figurehead. Even as he aged, …

Lowe’s plans to change space travel with its latest tech project—and that’s not a far-off fantasy. The giant retailer is slated to launch a commercial 3-D printer to the International Space Station in early 2016, taking manufacturing off the Earth. The goal …

Hardware Holdings, LLC, owner of Handy Hardware in Texas, changed its corporate name this month to reposition the company as a national distributor. The new name, World and Main, LLC, is intended to present the company as the operational distributor it …