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General Tools adds to its collection of specialty tools and instruments.

Nominate a worthy retailer for the 2017 STIHL Hardware All-Star awards.

While merger-related charges pushed the LBM giant into the red, fourth-quarter sales grew 64%.

Solar panel manufacturer Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. has appointed Bill Gregorak as its newest CFO.

Gregorak will be leaving his previous post as VP and CFO of Thule Organized Solutions, a consumer products manufacturer sold under the Case Logic and Thule brands. His experience with public company financial reporting, internal controls, and mergers and acquisitions will inform his role at Ascent Solar.

With Congressional elections on the calendar for Tuesday and the power of the Senate at a possible tipping point, the National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association offered its take on political matchups here at the 2014 ProDealer Industry Summit.

Ben Gann, the NLBMDA’s VP legislative and political affairs, pointed to top lumberyard industry issues for 2015 and spelled out where the various elections stand.

A business partner since 2009 is acquired by the home improvement giant.

According to the Green Bay Press Gazette of Wisconsin, a man took several days to accumulate more than $15,000 of stolen merchandise from an Oconto Falls, Wis., hardware store. 

The thief pulled it off by coming back night after night last summer, after he stole the key from a pickup truck, according to the article.