Trends · data through September 2026

Hardware Stores in Montana

Iceflower tracks 96 stores from 60 hardware store chains in Montana. Ace Hardware grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Harbor Freight Tools and True Value.

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
60
Tracked stores
96
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. Ace Hardware and Harbor Freight Tools sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware - +8.6%
2 H Harbor Freight Tools logo Harbor Freight Tools - +0.6%
3 T True Value logo True Value - -15.4%
  • Ace Hardware
  • Harbor Freight Tools
  • Kenyon Noble Lumber & Hardware
  • Eureka Hardware
  • Studs Building and Home
  • Montana Ace - Trempers
  • Darlow's Quality Foods
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

96 tracked store locations in Montana. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Ace Hardware (25)
  • Harbor Freight Tools (7)
  • Kenyon Noble Lumber & Hardware (1)
  • Eureka Hardware (1)
  • Studs Building and Home (1)
  • Montana Ace - Trempers (1)
  • Darlow's Quality Foods (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware 25
  • 2 H Harbor Freight Tools logo Harbor Freight Tools 7
  • 3 T True Value logo True Value 7
  • 4 H Havre Hardware and Home 1
  • 5 B Billings Hardware 1
  • 6 C Chain Saw Sales 1
  • 7 M Montana Saws 1
  • 8 M Milk River Home Center 1
  • 9 K Keller Supply 1
  • 10 B Browning Lumber & Hardware 1
  • 11 B Big Sky Hardware Lumber & Grocery 1
  • 12 C Central Lumber and Hardware 1
  • 13 T Trapper Peak 1
  • 14 U United Hardware 1
  • 15 R Ranch & Farm Ace 1
  • 16 S Superior Color & Lumber 1
  • 17 D Don's Home Center 1
  • 18 K Kenyon Noble Lumber & Hardware 1
  • 19 W Woodland Creations & Home Center 1
  • 20 T Townsend Hardware 1
  • 21 H Hardware Hank logo Hardware Hank 1
  • 22 G Gambles Do It Best Hardware 1
  • 23 F Forsyth Hardware & Home Center 1
  • 24 R Roundup Hardware and Ranch 1
  • 25 C Conrad Building Center 1
  • 26 H Hometown Hardware 1
  • 27 C Charlie B's Hardware 1
  • 28 R Riverside Hardware 1
  • 29 L Lewis Family Hardware 1
  • 30 M Missoula Power Equipment 1
  • 31 E Ennis True Value Hardware 1
  • 32 Z Zootown Hardware & Garden 1
  • 33 E Eureka Hardware 1
  • 34 S Studs Building and Home 1
  • 35 M Montana Ace - Trempers 1
  • 36 D Darlow's Quality Foods 1
  • 37 W Westmart Building Center 1
  • 38 R Rocky Mountain Supply - Townsend 1
  • 39 L Livingston's Ace Hardware logo Livingston's Ace Hardware 1
  • 40 A A&H Turf & Specialties 1
  • 41 B Bloedorn Lumber 1
  • 42 D Darby Distribution 1
  • 43 P Power Townsend Co. 1
  • 44 C Country Store True Value 1
  • 45 G Gambles Hardware 1
  • 46 M Massa Home Center 1
  • 47 M Mountain Supply Co 1
  • 48 M Mead Lumber of Red Lodge 1
  • 49 S Sliters Lumber & Building Supply 1
  • 50 H Hellgate Tool Repair 1

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