Home Depot and Lowe’s have dominated the home improvement and hardware retail sectors for decades, continuing to rise above hardware cooperatives True Value Hardware and Ace Hardware, and making life ...

Retailer-owned hardware cooperatives True Value Hardware and Ace Hardware have struggled to compete with the giant home-improvement retailers Home Depot, Lowe's, and Amazon, and in some cases, their ...

True Value, a 75-year-old hardware retail brand, has filed for bankruptcy and plans to sell itself to an industry rival. The Chicago-based wholesaler announced Monday that it plans to sell ...

Hardware sales suffered from a continued housing slump and consumers’ reluctance to spend in uncertain economic conditions in 2025. Industry leader Home Depot’s sales performance may have been ...

True Value, a 76-year-old hardware store, revealed Monday it filed for bankruptcy and intends to sell substantially all of its business operations to a rival. The nationwide retailer, writing in a ...

Do it Best Group is relocating True Value’s headquarters from Chicago to Fort Wayne, IN, bringing the retail-owned hardware chain’s corporate base to the home of its new parent company.