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 Ace Hardware sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harbor Freight Tools | - | +4.7% |
| 2 | Ace Hardware | - | +2.6% |
| 3 | Fuller & Son Hardware | ▲1 | +0.9% |
| 4 | True Value | - | -10.7% |
| 5 | Barton's | - | -10.9% |
| 6 | Whit Davis Lumber Plus | ▼1 | -46.9% |
- Harbor Freight Tools
- Ace Hardware
- Hum's Hardware
- Fuller & Son Hardware
- Whit Davis Lumber Plus
- Barton's
- Horner C J & Company
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
152 tracked store locations in Arkansas. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 63 of the 152 stores (41%); 74 of the 85 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked retail stores here are hardware stores, the same share as across the United States.
- Harbor Freight Tools (18)
- Ace Hardware (25)
- Hum's Hardware (3)
- Fuller & Son Hardware (6)
- Whit Davis Lumber Plus (4)
- Barton's (5)
- Horner C J & Company (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Ace Hardware 25
- 2 Harbor Freight Tools 18
- 3 True Value 9
- 4 Fuller & Son Hardware 6
- 5 Barton's 5
- 6 Whit Davis Lumber Plus 4
- 7 Hum's Hardware 3
- 8 Discount Ag Center 2
- 9 TH Rogers Lumber Company 2
- 10 Falk Plumbing Supply 2
- 11 Miller True Value 2
- 12 Diamond S Farm & Ranch 1
- 13 Airport Road Small Engine 1
- 14 Shaver Plumbing and Hardware 1
- 15 Searcy Farm Supply 1
- 16 M & M Farm & Lumber 1
- 17 Haskell Hardware 1
- 18 Ridout Lumber of Searcy 1
- 19 Derickson Lumber and Hardware 1
- 20 Gilbert Lumber & Supply 1
- 21 Magazine True Value Hardware & Farm 1
- 22 Hometown Farm and Feed 1
- 23 Garth Hardware 1
- 24 GFS Outdoor Power Shop 1
- 25 Sims Building Materials 1
- 26 Justus Homecenter 1
- 27 White River Supply 1
- 28 Tedder Outdoor Power 1
- 29 AtoZ Tools 1
- 30 Terry Hardware 1
- 31 Village True Value Home Center Building Supply 1
- 32 Brown's Small Engine 1
- 33 Treadway Electric 1
- 34 McGehee Lumber & Hardware Company 1
- 35 Elmer's Hardware 1
- 36 Back 40 Farm Supply 1
- 37 Berry's Hardware & Home Center 1
- 38 Davis Lumber & Hardware 1
- 39 Hanby Lumber Company 1
- 40 Bison Builders 1
- 41 Town & Country Hardware 1
- 42 Monette Feed and Hardware 1
- 43 Harris Farm and Home 1
- 44 Rockin D Farm and Hardware 1
- 45 Hardware & More Store 1
- 46 Holt Builders Supply 1
- 47 McClendon Ace Hardware 1
- 48 County Building Center 1
- 49 Kraftco Hardware 1
- 50 Vaccaro Lumber & Hardware 1
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