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Industry NEWS

home improvement industry's This year’s winners are: for staff, imaginative merchandising,
leading retailers honoured at • Best Hardware Store, any size - Gow’s creative niches in their respective markets
Bridgewater,
Hardware,
NS,
Home
and solid sales growth year over year. The
hardlines gala Amanda Fancy, Owner; winners each displayed an edge that put
• Best Building Supply or Home Centre them ahead of their peers and identified
under 15,000 sq. ft. - Matériaux Armand them as truly outstanding.
Dumaresq, Rivière-au-Renard, QC, Guy Launched in 1992, the Outstanding
Samson and Camil Bouchard, Owners; Retailer Awards are the industry’s only
• Best Building Supply or Home Centre national awards program dedicated to
over 15,000 sq. ft. - Discovery Co-op, celebrating the achievements of hardware
North Battleford, SK, Mike Nord, General and building supply dealers in Canada.
Manager; In its 25-year history, the program has
• Best Contractor Specialist - RONA honoured more than 150 retailers.
Canada’s best hardware and home Penticton, Penticton, BC, Chad Mielke,
improvement retailers were recognized Manager; About Hardlines
on November 14 at the 2017 Outstanding • Best Large Surface Retailer−Lowe’s Barrie, Celebrating its 23rd year, Hardlines is
Retailer Awards Gala Dinner which was Barrie, ON, Piero Palmerio, Manager; a leading authority on the retail home
held in Niagara Falls ON, marking the end • Best Young Retailer−Alex Yakovyshenko, improvement industry. Hardlines’ products
of day one of the 22nd Annual Hardlines Manager, Haney Builders Supplies, Maple and services include its weekly HARDLINES
Conference. Ridge, BC; electronic newsletter; its hard-copy magazine,
Dealers from across the country were • Marc Robichaud Community Leader - Hardlines Home Improvement Quarterly;
celebrated in seven categories covering the Sayer Home Hardware, Hagersville, ON, a comprehensive and informative website;
range of hardware and home improvement David Sayer, Owner a free Daily News Service; and the annual
retailing formats. Delegates at the Hardlines Hardlines Conference. For more information,
Conference joined leaders from the retail These dealers, chosen from a list please contact Michael McLarney, Editor
chains, co-ops and buying groups who of nominees in each category, have of Hardlines, at 416-489-3396 or mike@
attended the Gala Dinner to honour their demonstrated leadership, a positive culture hardlines.ca.
members and fellow retailers.

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