HCN’s 2014 Hardware Store ALL STARS By HCN Staff 201 4 HA RDW R STA ARE S T O R E ALL S All-Star performance comes in many flavors, but it always includes a heavy dose of customer service, innovation and growth. Here and on the following pages, HCN recognizes high- performance independent retailers and the results of the HCN 2014 Hardware Store All-Star search — 50 stores in 50 states. Alabama: Lincoln Hardware & Supply, Lincoln Alaska: Sentry Hardware, North Pole and Fairbanks Arizona: Findysz Ace Hardware, Tucson Arkansas: Hipp Modern Builders Supply, Mountainview California: Bay Hardware, Seal Beach Colorado: Steamboat Ace Hardware, Steamboat Springs Connecticut: Wilton Hardware, Wilton Delaware: Baker’s Hardware, Millsboro Florida: Shell Lumber & Hardware, Miami Georgia: Stone’s Home Center, Quitman Hawaii: HPM Building Supply, Multiple locations Idaho: Pro X Home Center, Bonners Ferry Illinois: Geneva Ace Hardware, Geneva Indiana: Stevenson’s Ace Hardware, Crawfordsville Iowa: Steve’s Ace Home & Garden, Dubuque Kansas: Strasser Hardware, Kansas City Kentucky: Benton Hardware, Benton Louisiana: Vidrine’s Ace Hardware, Ville Platte Maine: Paris Farmer’s Union, Multiple locations Maryland: Courtland Hardware, Bel Air and Fallston Massachusetts: O’Connor Hardware and Rental, Billerica Michigan: Rylee’s Ace Hardware, Grand Rapids Minnesota: Marvin Home Center, Warroad Mississippi: Huntington Lumber & Supply Co., Hazlehurst Missouri: King City Lumber Co., King City Montana: Triple “S” Building Center, Butte Nebraska: Mead Lumber, Nebraska City Nevada: Big R, Winnemucca New Hampshire: Caron Building Center, Berlin New Jersey: Colmar Home Center, Margate City New Mexico: BTU Do it Center, Las Vegas New York: H.G. Page and Sons Home and Hardware, Lagrangeville North Carolina: True Value of Concord, Concord North Dakota: Badlands Do it Best Hardware, Watford City Ohio: Nutter Hardware, Upper Arlington Oklahoma: Gordon White Lumber, Davis Oregon: Madrona Hills Ace Hardware, Salem Pennsylvania: Stanley’s Hardware, Philadelphia Rhode Island: Damon’s Hardware Inc., Wakefield South Carolina: Paradise Home Center, Union South Dakota: Custer True Value, Custer Tennessee: Anderson Lumber Company, Alcoa Texas: Cox Hardware & Lumber, Houston Utah: Horseshoe Mountain Home Center, Mt. Pleasant Vermont: The Pick & Shovel, Newport Virginia: Page Co-Op Farm Bureau Inc., Luray Washington: Windsor Plywood, Bellingham West Virginia: General Building Supply, Huntington Wisconsin: Scholze Ace Home Center, Black River Falls Wyoming: True Value of Rawlins, Rawlins