Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked hardware store chains
Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Aubuchon Hardware and Harbor Freight Tools sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
A
|
- | +4.2% |
| 2 |
H
|
- | -1.5% |
| 3 | P Plimpton & Hills | - | -1.8% |
| 4 |
T
|
- | -34.2% |
- Harbor Freight Tools
- Ace Hardware
- True Value
- Shagbark Lumber & Farm Supplies
- Plimpton & Hills
- Steward's Hardware
- Fleming's Feed and Hardware
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
153 tracked store locations in Connecticut. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.
- Harbor Freight Tools (15)
- Ace Hardware (17)
- True Value (11)
- Shagbark Lumber & Farm Supplies (1)
- Plimpton & Hills (5)
- Steward's Hardware (1)
- Fleming's Feed and Hardware (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
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1
A
Ace Hardware 17
-
2
H
Harbor Freight Tools 15
-
3
T
True Value 11
- 4 P Plimpton & Hills 5
-
5
A
Aubuchon Hardware 4
- 6 S Star Hardware 2
- 7 M Merit Hardware 1
- 8 N New Milford Agway 1
- 9 M Modern Lumber True Value 1
- 10 E East Windsor Star Hardware 1
- 11 T Target Enterprises 1
- 12 R Red Barn Feed and Hardware 1
- 13 B Bushka Lumber and Millwork 1
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14
T
The Nutty Company 1
- 15 S Somers Star Hardware 1
-
16
N
Newtown Hardware 1
- 17 P Park City Power Equipment 1
- 18 T Tractors 2 Trimmers 1
- 19 C Crane's Outdoor Power Equipment 1
- 20 K Kasheta Power Equipment 1
- 21 B Bender 1
- 22 N Newtown Power Equipment 1
- 23 M Maine Oxy 1
- 24 K Keough's Paint & Hardware 1
- 25 M Manchester Hardware 1
- 26 C City True Value 1
- 27 B Bethel Power Equipment 1
- 28 N Norwich Lumber Co 1
- 29 D Deep River Hardware Co Inc 1
- 30 S Sholes Ace Hardware & Supply 1
- 31 B Butler Equipment LLC 1
- 32 V Valley Home Hardware & Garden Centre 1
-
33
T
True Value Of Bethel 1
- 34 M Main Hardware Supply 1
- 35 S Schmidt's & Serafine's 1
- 36 E Ed's Hardware 1
- 37 A Anthony's Hardware Store 1
- 38 H Hometown Tool 1
- 39 R Red's Hardware 1
- 40 T The Jack Farrelly Company 1
- 41 G Greenwich Hardware 1
- 42 V Village Hardware 1
- 43 P Park Place Hardware 1
- 44 M Milford Wood Trim 1
- 45 S Stony Hill Hardware 1
- 46 T True Value of Winchester 1
- 47 R Rutkowski Hardware 1
- 48 B Barnum Hardware 1
- 49 C Carl's True Value 1
- 50 S Suffield Hardware 1
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