The company planned to quadruple its international sales to $400 million by 2000, with a special focus on South America. NHS also became the supplier in 1998 to the largest non-cooperative buying group for lumber and building materials in the United States. The company slowly expanded over the next few decades until Westlake joined the Ace Hardware distribution network in 1959 and eventually became the largest Ace dealer in America. By January 1951 the company’s sales had reached $9 million. When Jeremy Melnick’s grandfather opened his first Ace Hardware store along Chicago’s ritzy Gold Coast in 1950, there wasn’t a whole lot of competition.
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It was metallic teal green and white, and it had a headlight, reflectors on the fenders, and a two tone green and white seat. I added a link in the text at the end to a book about the hardware store industry in the United States after World War II. It dedicates a lot of space to Coast to Coast and goes into the reasons why the industry changed. For people over the age of about 40 who grew up in the heartland, when they think of an old-fashioned hardware store, an old Coast to Coast store is probably what comes to their mind. I remember jumping into Dad’s powder blue 1976 Dodge pickup truck and riding to Coast to Coast to get hardware for his weekend projects.
Minneapolis-based Coast to Coast was, in spite of its name, primarily a midwestern chain. Three brothers, Arthur, Maurice, and Louis Melamed, founded the chain in 1928. It boomed after World War II, and at its peak, it had 1,200 stores in 26 states. Coast to Coast made it as far east as Ohio and as far west as California.
This award sees brands like Home Timber and Hardware and other Mitre 10 stores vying for the honour to be acknowledged as ‘best of the best’. The dinner was part of IHG’s Expo at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre which saw over 600 members, 220 suppliers and over 2000 attendees come together for all things trade and hardware. Winter may well be on its way in the Windy City, but now Chicagoans have a new shopping destination where they can while away the frigid days to come. Last week RH opened the doors of a gigantic flagship in the city’s residential Gold Coast neighborhood. And in true RH fashion, it’s a lot more than just a furniture showroom.
The stores had a planned layout, 12 departments, inventory determined by the central office, and a limited number of brands to improve turnover. The company briefly flirted with converting from a retailer-owned co-op to a for-profit corporation during the most recent recession in 2007. The company achieved national penetration in 1978, when it signed on members in the eastern United States. By 1976, when ownership of Ace had passed completely to its dealers, the organization’s sales volume had reached $382 million.
By 1984, 85 percent of the 23,500 retail hardware stores in the United States were affiliated with co-ops, and those groups held the top share, 48 percent, of annual hardware sales. Serving the Kiln Community Since 1999Providing our customers with everything from hardware to the perfect dress. We personally select every product on our shelves and guarantee you the same quality we would recommend to our family. Correction to the footprint of Coast to Coast only as far east as Ohio.
I owned and operated a Coast to Coast Hardware franchise in Clemmons, North Carolina from 1980 until we sold the store in 1996. Our store was their first on the east coast and in fact, made them truly coast to coast. Following our store, several opened on the east coast including in Rocky Mount, VA; Jonesville, NC; Fort Mill, SC and Winston-Salem, NC to name a few. Many of the small eastern Montana towns in our area had Coast to Coast stores. Our local small hometown, where we lived during the school year after our country school closed, eventually got one, too. I wish I could remember the brand name of the new bicycle I got it for my birthday as a kid in about 1963.
Gold Coast hardware stores began as a small chain of stores in 1924 and has grown to include more than 4,600 stores in 50 states and more than 70 countries. Attend executive and keynote presentations and a range of industry-relevant learning labs and supplier webinars to build knowledge and capability amongst your sales team. Learn about the latest product trends and selling ideas, and watch product demonstrations and videos. George Fausel purchased the store in 1952 and has been in his family’s name for the past three generations. In the first 50 years, the name and owners changed six times! In 1854, Franklin Stevens and Franklin S. Randall built a stone building who then sold the building and deed in 1856 to I.
