Trends · data through September 2026

Hardware Stores in the United States

Iceflower tracks 13,588 stores from 6,940 hardware store chains in the United States. Costello's Ace Hardware grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Arrow Lumber & Hardware and Gateway Supply Co..

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
6,940
Tracked stores
13,588
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. Costello's Ace Hardware and Arrow Lumber & Hardware sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Costello's Ace Hardware logo Costello's Ace Hardware ▲5 +18.7%
2 A Arrow Lumber & Hardware ▲1 +13.1%
3 G Gateway Supply Co. ▲9 +12.5%
4 M Moore Lumber & Hardware logo Moore Lumber & Hardware ▲4 +11.9%
5 N Northeastern Supply logo Northeastern Supply ▲5 +11.2%
6 J Jaeger Lumber ▲1 +11.1%
7 I Ihrie Supply Company ▲13 +10.1%
8 R Ricciardi Brothers ▲5 +9.8%
9 A Aubuchon Hardware logo Aubuchon Hardware - +9.5%
10 C Curtis Lumber Co Inc logo Curtis Lumber Co Inc - +8.4%
11 H HomeBase USA ▲4 +7.3%
12 M Master Halco logo Master Halco ▲5 +7.0%
13 C Cole's Hardware ▲8 +6.4%
14 A Acme Tools logo Acme Tools ▲5 +6.3%
15 P Plimpton & Hills ▲9 +6.1%
  • Harbor Freight Tools
  • Ace Hardware
  • True Value
  • Curtis Lumber Co Inc
  • Aubuchon Hardware
  • Elder's Ace Hardware
  • Lowe's ProServices
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

13,588 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Harbor Freight Tools (1,673)
  • Ace Hardware (2,331)
  • True Value (663)
  • Curtis Lumber Co Inc (15)
  • Aubuchon Hardware (120)
  • Elder's Ace Hardware (3)
  • Lowe's ProServices (3)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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