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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.”

Key Topics at Ace Show: New Initiatives, Growth

Ace Hardware Convention

The Ace Hardware Convention for spring 2016 was a celebration of continued financial growth for the co-op, as well as a push for new heights. The co-op saw revenue boosts across the board for all of its business divisions, and …

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Retailers Help Ahead of the Big Snow

Big Snow

Predictions of heavy snowfall in January sent customers scrambling to buy supplies from their local home improvement stores to prepare for ice, snow and potential power outages. The expectation of nearly 30 inches of snow brought customers to Twins Ace …

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Fab Labs: Workspaces for the Creative DIYer

Fab Labs

Here is a way to promote DIY projects that you may want to investigate: Fab Labs. The concept is part of a movement to provide everyday people, often in lower-income areas of the U.S., with access to laboratories for tinkering …

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Ace Hardware Ranks High on Top Franchise List

Ace Hardware

Entrepreneur has ranked Ace Hardware Corp. in the top 20 on the magazine’s 2016 Franchise 500 list. Ace Hardware ranked No. 14 overall out of all of the individual businesses evaluated for Entrepreneur‘s list, which looks at franchise opportunities across more than 17 different categories. …

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Home Depot’s Sales Up for Q4 and All of 2015

hazardous waste

The Home Depot today reported fourth-quarter and overall fiscal 2015 sales growth, crediting a recovering housing market among the reasons for the increases. Sales were $21 billion for the fourth quarter of 2015, for a 9.5 percent increase from the fourth quarter of …

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Warren Buffett and Independents That Sell Paint

Paint retail chain J.C. Licht has sold to a private businessman, reaffirming its former owner’s commitment to selling paint only through independent businesses. Elliot Greenberg, a former executive from regional home improvement chain Ring’s End, announced this month that he bought …

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