Trends · data through September 2026

Hardware Stores in Michigan

Iceflower tracks 605 stores from 328 hardware store chains in Michigan. Harbor Freight Tools grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Great Lakes Ace Hardware and Ace Hardware.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
328
Tracked stores
605
Consumer panel
130M+

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. Harbor Freight Tools and Great Lakes Ace Hardware sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Harbor Freight Tools logo Harbor Freight Tools ▲1 +3.9%
2 G Great Lakes Ace Hardware logo Great Lakes Ace Hardware - +3.4%
3 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware ▼1 -0.4%
4 L LumberJack Building Centers - -3.0%
5 B Burnips Equipment - -3.0%
6 G Gill-Roy's Hardware logo Gill-Roy's Hardware - -3.2%
7 T True Value logo True Value - -11.0%
8 B Big C Lumber - -17.7%
9 B Bernard Building Center - -17.7%
  • Harbor Freight Tools
  • Ace Hardware
  • Great Lakes Ace Hardware
  • Gill-Roy's Hardware
  • True Value
  • Chelsea Lumber Company
  • Rylee's Ace Hardware
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

605 tracked store locations in Michigan. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Harbor Freight Tools (56)
  • Ace Hardware (121)
  • Great Lakes Ace Hardware (16)
  • Gill-Roy's Hardware (25)
  • True Value (38)
  • Chelsea Lumber Company (1)
  • Rylee's Ace Hardware (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware 121
  • 2 H Harbor Freight Tools logo Harbor Freight Tools 56
  • 3 T True Value logo True Value 38
  • 4 G Gill-Roy's Hardware logo Gill-Roy's Hardware 25
  • 5 G Great Lakes Ace Hardware logo Great Lakes Ace Hardware 16
  • 6 B Big C Lumber 6
  • 7 B Burnips Equipment 4
  • 8 B Bernard Building Center 4
  • 9 L LumberJack Building Centers 3
  • 10 V Village Hardware 2
  • 11 C Capitol Supply & Service 2
  • 12 R Richfield Trailer Supply 2
  • 13 S Sequin Lumber Company 2
  • 14 4 41 Lumber 2
  • 15 S Smith Lumber 2
  • 16 D DeWitt Lumber 2
  • 17 S Superior Saw 2
  • 18 M Mans Lumber 2
  • 19 H Hood's Do it Best 1
  • 20 B Banas Lumber and Hardware 1
  • 21 Z Zimmer's Sales and Service 1
  • 22 L Lockeman's Hardware & Boats 1
  • 23 Y Yale Hardware Inc. 1
  • 24 N Northwoods Hardware 1
  • 25 G Great Lakes Pipe & Supply 1
  • 26 C Cadillac Hardware 1
  • 27 S Somerset Hardware 1
  • 28 N Nelson Hardware 1
  • 29 S Stanton Hardware 1
  • 30 B Brighton Paint Co. 1
  • 31 A Alpha Building Center 1
  • 32 G Glaser's Lumber 1
  • 33 A Addison Awning & Sign Co 1
  • 34 K Kerr's Equipment 1
  • 35 H Howard's Outdoor Power Equipment 1
  • 36 C Coopersville Hardware and Feed 1
  • 37 S Springfield Do It Center 1
  • 38 M Marion Lumber Co Inc 1
  • 39 G Glen Wing Power Tools 1
  • 40 R ReNu Power Tool and Supply 1
  • 41 S SF Supply 1
  • 42 A Allstate Industrial Equipment 1
  • 43 C Coloma True Value logo Coloma True Value 1
  • 44 F Frentz & Sons Hardware 1
  • 45 I Ivanrest Hardware 1
  • 46 P Powers Do it Best Hardware 1
  • 47 R Rouch Outdoor 1
  • 48 M Marsh Power Tools 1
  • 49 D Direct Tools Factory Outlet logo Direct Tools Factory Outlet 1
  • 50 S Sanford Hardware 1

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