The Home Depot is expanding its use of hydrogen power in 2016, proceeding with plans to improve the sustainability and energy efficiency of its supply chain operations. Following the successful integration of hydrogen power into a new Ohio online order fulfillment facility, the company …

National distributor World and Main has made a corporate leadership change. Don Devine, former president and CEO, has left the Cranbury, New Jersey, company, and Bruce Fisher is now interim CEO. G. Stephen LeGraw is now serving as interim president and chief operating …

MasterCard is working to increase digital payment security measures, rolling out plans to replace passwords with facial identification. “The company announced it is launching new mobile technologies that will allow customers to authenticate their online purchases using selfies or fingerprints. The technology will …

Charles Fishman, an award-winning author and investigative journalist, took questions from Hardware Retailing on Walmart and home improvement. His book, “The Wal-Mart Effect,” got inside the world’s largest company for the first time and explains how Walmart does what it does. Fishman …

Just within the past six months or so, three American home improvement companies have modified and begun expanding their approaches to selling within Canada – drawing attention to the Canadian home improvement market, which has an ever-expanding competitive American position …

Lowe’s is still working to sell its one-third stake in an unprofitable Australian home improvement store chain after announcing in January that it was exiting Australia. Lowe’s owns the business – which includes 63 Masters Home Improvement stores, as well as …

The first Home Improvement eRetailer Summit will launch in October to connect home improvement manufacturers, distributors and online retailers who are interested in increasing online sales through collaboration and partnerships. The conference is slated for Oct. 26-28, 2016, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and …

Lumber Liquidators has committed to paying $2.5 million and pioneering a product-testing program to resolve a California probe into whether flooring the discounter sold contained more formaldehyde than the state’s health and safety standards allow. The retailer came to the agreement with the California …