Digital Editions

March 2025 Issue

The March issue of Hardware & Building Supply Dealer helps keep everything connected with a  “State of the Fastener” cover story. New products, building trends and technology advances are built into the roundup.

Also in the issue:

• Market insights: Something positive from the Houzz State of the Industry report.
• From the editor: An effort to influence, in the footsteps of Alexander Pope.
• Top Women Profile: Kate Weissmann of LBM Advantage is inspired by the spirit of the co-op.
• Plus: Product Knowledge; Top Showrooms; People in the News; and more.

February 2025 Issue

The February issue of Hardware & Building Supply Dealer celebrates the 50th anniversary of our publication, and offers hand-picked highlights from the Jan. 13, 1975 issue of National Home Center News, the forerunner of HBSDealer.

Also in the issue:

• From the editor: A disruptive visit to the New York Stock Exchange
• Special Report: The art of the deck. Trends, products, distribution and opportunities in outdoor living.
• Market insights: the on-again, off-again Corporate Transparency Act.
• Plus: Product Knowledge, Poll Results, Top Showrooms; and People in the News.

January 2025 Issue

The January issue of Hardware & Building Supply Dealer strikes gold! It’s the annual Golden Hammer Awards issue, recognizing the best of the best of new products serving the hardware and building supply industry. Check out our 20 innovative honorees.

Also in the issue:

• Special Report: Insights from the 'Next Generation" of LBM leaders;
• From the Editor: The Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting Rule is a plan gone off the rails;
• Market Insights: A really big deal for Builders FirstSource; a transformation under foot at AZEK; and a Q&A with Spirit of Life Honoree and Home Depot EVP of Merchandising Billy Bastek.;
• Plus: Poll results, The Quikrete Industry Dashboard, and more.

December 2024 Issue

The November/December issue of Hardware & Building Supply Dealer recognizes and celebrates the Top Women of the industry. Achievement meets personal improvement in Chicago.

Also in the issue:

• From the Editor:  Looking back at True Value, and looking ahead;
• News & Analysis: A port strike's enduring impact, and overtime rule over turned;
• Technology: What's next for tech in the LBM space;
• Plus: Ace Hardware update, Product Knowledge, and more.

October 2024 Issue

The October issue of Hardware & Building Supply Dealer offers a toast to Bliffert Lumber, the Milwaukee-based HBSDealer ProDealer of the Year. The company emphasizes its family of customers, suppliers and staff as it expands and improves. We’ve got the story.

Also in the issue:

• From the Editor:  An existential question regarding existing home sales and remodeling;
• Market Insights: Examining the cost of card transactions; Home Depot takes a stand on packaging;
• Top Women in Hardware & Building Supply: Career-journey advice from a 2024 Rising Star;
• Plus: Product Knowledge, Poll Results, Top Showrooms; and People in the News

September 2024 Issue

Jay Short appears on the cover of the September issue of Hardware & Building Supply Dealer, featuring our coverage of the 2024 Independent ProDealer of the Year.

Also in the issue:

• From the Editor:  Exploring giant retailers feeling the pressure, and responding;
• Market Insights:  The latest on decking; innovation in wood-based composites, and the most in-demand homebuilding materials;
• Top Women in Hardware & Building Supply: Here's how Pam Stott, executive director of the Northeast Construction Trades Workforce Coalition, helps build the next generation of leaders; and
• PLUS: Top Showrooms, Here’s What’s Online; and People in the News.

July/August 2024 Issue

The Top 150 Leaderboard issue is back, and it looks nothing like the go-go years that preceded it. Included are highlights from the “First Fifty,” and stats that set the table for downward trends. For the full Top 150, visit HBSDealer.com/report.

Also in the issue:

• From the Editor: Respect for two prodealers that play in the big leagues;
• Product analysis: Behind the drama over table-saw safety:
• True Value Report: Here's how one dealer successfully combined LBM and hardware; and
• Top Showrooms: Malone Home Center helps customers visualize success.

June 2024 Issue

The June issue of Hardware & Building Supply Dealer — ’the Tech Issue’ looks at innovations bringing results to businesses right now. From Independents transforming their yards with e-commerce, artificial Intelligence and even robotic assembly, to artificial Intelligence at Tractor Supply and Lowe’s. And more.

• From the Editor: Inside HBSDealer’s very own recruitment process;
• Market Insights: Inflation and other macro economic highlights from John Burns Research and Consulting;
• Top Women Profile Series: Amy Marks is the ‘Queen of Prefab.’ And she has strong thoughts on the construction industry; and
• Plus: Top Showrooms, Here’s What’s Online; and People in the News.

May 2024 Issue

Cover story: “STIHL Hardware All Stars:” Some of the most high-performing, service-oriented dealers in the country. It’s the annual STIHL Hardware All Star issue, with 50 stores from 50 states.:

• From the editor: Up close and personal with hardware retailer Solomon Hess;
• Market insights: Home improvement retailers share tactics for discounts and unique items; and
• Top Women Profile Series: Metrie’s Amber Tidd makes the journey from sales to operations.

Plus: Top Showrooms, Here’s What’s Online; and People in the News

April 2024 Issue

The latest issue of Hardware & Building Supply Dealer is green all over, featuring "Sustainability Seekers" who are driving progress toward more sustainable building and retailing practices..

Also in the latest issue:

• The risk-reward of installed sales;
• Page Lumber's 100th anniversary in the Hudson Valley; and
• A report from the International Builders’ Show.

And in every issue: Product Knowledge, People in the News and the Quikrete Industry Dashboard.