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Do it Best-Home Hardware Partnership Gains New Executive Director

Alliance International, the Do it Best buying partnership with Canadian co-op Home Hardware Stores Limited, has named a new executive director.

Greg Mann
Greg Mann

Greg Mann replaced long-standing executive director Greg Thomas and will be leading Alliance International, which has $5 billion in purchasing power. Thomas is retiring in April.

Mann has more than 30 years of experience in hardlines merchandise buying and management and recently served as general manager for a farm and ranch co-op headquartered in Minnesota.

“Greg brings an impressive level of experience to this role, along with a keen understanding of the Alliance’s importance in supporting and strengthening all of our members,” says Steve Markley, vice president of merchandising for Do it Best Corp. of Fort Wayne, Indiana.

To learn more about Do it Best, click here. For more information on Home Hardware, click here.

 

About Kate Klein

Kate is profiles editor for Hardware Retailing magazine. She reports on news and industry events and writes about retailers' unique contributions to the independent home improvement sector. She graduated from Cedarville University in her home state of Ohio, where she earned a bachelor's degree in English and minored in creative writing. She loves being an aunt, teaching writing to kids, running, reading, farm living and, as Walt Whitman says, traveling the open road, “healthy, free, the world before me.”

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