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Hammacher Schlemmer began as a hardware store specializing in hard-to-find tools in the Bowery district of New York City in 1848. Owned by proprietors Charles Tollner and Mr. R. Stern, [2] it became one of the first national hardware stores. A few months later, Stern withdrew and Tollner continued the business until 1859, moving in 1857 to 209 ...
In 1974, Travers Tool purchased and moved into a 25,000-square-foot (2,300 m 2), 2-story facility at 25-26 50th Street in Woodside, New York. As business grew throughout the 1980s, Travers Tool moved into a larger facility at 128-15 26th Avenue, Flushing, New York and built a 75,000-square-foot (7,000 m 2) warehouse in Duncan, South Carolina.
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The company is the largest privately owned tool manufacturer in the United States. [2] The company sells tools under the Great Neck, Sheffield, OEM, GreatLite, Mayes, and Buck Bros. brand names, [3] as well as private label brands such as Husky and Kobalt. [4]
A hardware store traditionally sells household hardware such as fasteners, keys, locks, hinges, wire, chains, plumbing supples, tools, cutlery and machine parts. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
It is common for a hardware store in the US to repair broken windows and screens, repair power equipment such as lawn mowers, re-key entry locks, make copies of house keys and car keys, re-wire lamps and vacuum cleaners, sharpen knives and cutting tools, make minor repairs to faucet and shower parts, repair kerosene heaters and cut and thread ...
His son, Ronald Rashkow, bought out the single store operation in 1967 from his father. He converted the company to Handy Andy in 1971 with its first expansion unit. [1] The company grew to 72 stores in seven American states (Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Missouri, Mississippi, Michigan, Tennessee, and Kentucky).
1990: Acquired Sidchrome Tool Co., headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. Closed plant in 1996 and started to move all tool manufacturing to Taiwan, sourcing various items from Proto in the USA (marked as Proto on items) due to supply of left-over Australian-made tools being sold out until all manufacturing was fully established in Taiwan.