Back in the early 1980s, family-owned hardware stores dotted Chicagoland, selling everything from extension cords to plumbing supplies. Then came the big boys, such as Handy Andy and Builders Squar… ...

Builders Square will close its Hampton store because it is too small to accommodate the company’s plans to expand its stores. Jeanne Janes, a spokeswoman for the Texas-based home improvement ...

Builders Square’s operating income in fiscal 1991 was $74 million on revenue of $2 billion. That is about 2 percent of the hardware and building materials business.

Among the big-box hardware chains to emerge from the Handy Dan bloodline were Home Depot, today one of the nation's biggest retailers, and San Antonio's Builders Square, which might have ...

Home Depot has solidified its hold over the South Florida hardware and building supplies market by snapping up six Builders Square stores in South Florida. The Atlanta-based chain plans to operate … ...

The parent company of Builders Square is expected to announce store closings Wednesday that could include some of its 16 Chicago-area shops. Store managers in several Builders Square stores said ...

Menomonee Falls-based Builders Hardware and Hollow Metal Inc. has acquired Kenosha-based EDS Architectural Openings Inc. The transaction was completed Dec. 31 for an undisclosed price. “They ...

On Saturday, John Horvath saw the Bethlehem hardware store he had nurtured over five decades auctioned off a piece at a time. “This should have never happened,” said Horvath, former own… ...

Since 1990 a grocery store, drug store, hardware and an Ames discount store all closed, leaving the center's main wing with only three small tenants. All three have been moved. The new Builders ...

Builders Square, a subsidiary of Kmart, may begin construction of a large hardware store in South Whitehall Township within the next two months, a lawyer for the New York-based developer said last ...

The Kalispel Tribe of Indians has leased land to a hardware store owner who is planning to bring a large Builders Supply & Home Center to Airway Heights.

Among the big-box hardware chains to emerge from the Handy Dan bloodline were Home Depot, today one of the nation's biggest retailers, and San Antonio's Builders Square, which might have ...