Upside, a digital marketplace that provides cash-back services, has partnered with Nation’s Best Holdings, a company of locally branded hardware stores, home centers and lumberyards. This partnership brings Upside promotions to 46 Nation’s Best hardware stores across 15 U.S. states, …
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Nation’s Best Acquires Malone Home Center
Nation’s Best is expanding its footprint of independent home improvement stores with the acquisition of Malone Home Center in Greenville, Kentucky. The company now operates 52 locations across 16 states. “We’re committed to organic growth, as well as growth via …
Read More »NHPA Announces 11 Young Retailer of the Year Honorees
The North American Hardware and Paint Association (NHPA) has announced the recipients of the 2023 Young Retailer of the Year award. These dynamic individuals were selected from a field of inspiring independent home improvement retailers under the age of 35 …
Read More »Nation’s Best Acquires Advanced Window Systems
Nation’s Best has added Advanced Window Systems (AWS), one of the region’s top providers of premier windows and doors, to its family of businesses. AWS maintains a large warehouse south of Dallas, Texas, and a showroom in the Dallas Design …
Read More »Best Practices for Creating a Strategic Plan
If you’re like most business-minded people, you have no shortage of ideas. Put on your retailer glasses and you might see opportunities everywhere. If the past couple of years have given you above average sales and you have money in …
Read More »Ask the Right Questions to Create Your Strategic Plan
For a strategic plan to effectively guide you into the future, it must take a comprehensive look at your business. The questions you ask about your business will be the starting point for knowing your strengths and weaknesses. Robert Debs, …
Read More »Nation’s Best Acquires Connolly’s Do it Best
Nation’s Best, a rapidly growing home improvement company, recently announced its acquisition of Connolly’s Do it Best Hardware & Rental, which operates five locations in Fort Wayne, Indiana. “We are thrilled to welcome Connolly’s Do it Best Hardware & Rental …
Read More »Nation’s Best CEO Talks Industry Consolidation and Strategic Growth
There is no doubt we are in an era of consolidation among independent home improvement retailers. Recent research from the North American Retail Hardware Association (NRHA) clearly shows a trend toward fewer owners owning more stores. Accompanying this trend has …
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