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 Northeastern Supply sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Costello's Ace Hardware | - | +17.0% |
| 2 | Northeastern Supply | - | +15.7% |
| 3 | Harbor Freight Tools | - | +11.8% |
| 4 | Ace Hardware | - | +10.6% |
| 5 | Schumacher & Seiler | - | -24.7% |
| 6 | True Value | - | -69.5% |
- Ace Hardware
- Harbor Freight Tools
- Costello's Ace Hardware
- Northeastern Supply
- Ce Baltimore Glen Burn
- Castle Wholesalers
- Rommel's Ace Home Center
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
89 tracked store locations in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 44 of the 89 stores (49%); 40 of the 47 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked retail stores here are hardware stores, the same share as across Maryland.
- Ace Hardware (15)
- Harbor Freight Tools (10)
- Costello's Ace Hardware (3)
- Northeastern Supply (9)
- Ce Baltimore Glen Burn (1)
- Castle Wholesalers (1)
- Rommel's Ace Home Center (2)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Ace Hardware 15
- 2 Harbor Freight Tools 10
- 3 Northeastern Supply 9
- 4 True Value 5
- 5 Schumacher & Seiler 5
- 6 Costello's Ace Hardware 3
- 7 Rommel's Ace Home Center 2
- 8 Ayd Hardware 1
- 9 Severna Lawn & Power 1
- 10 Suburban Paint & Commercial Supply 1
- 11 Midway Lumber 1
- 12 Tools and Accessories Corporation 1
- 13 Poplar Place Hardware 1
- 14 Carey Hardware 1
- 15 Elkridge Asphalt 1
- 16 Hodges Hardware 1
- 17 Colliflower Inc 1
- 18 Falkenhan's Hardware 1
- 19 Schneider Paint and Hardware 1
- 20 Eldersberg Sales & Service Repair 1
- 21 Newsom Seed 1
- 22 Belair Road Supply 1
- 23 Clarks Ace Hardware 1
- 24 Delta Lumber 1
- 25 Kefauver Lumber Company 1
- 26 Robnet Fasteners 1
- 27 Sandyfill Reclamation 1
- 28 Castle Wholesalers 1
- 29 Deale Hardware and Home Center 1
- 30 Kent Island True Value 1
- 31 Green's Ace Home Center 1
- 32 Kendall Hardware 1
- 33 Odenton Hardware Inc 1
- 34 Ce Baltimore Glen Burn 1
- 35 Westlake Ace Hardware 1
- 36 Reifsnider's Farm Supply 1
- 37 Woodbine Equipment and Supply 1
- 38 Courtland Hardware 1
- 39 Park Hardware 1
- 40 Exotic Lumber, Inc 1
- 41 Clark Sales & Service 1
- 42 Eastwood Company 1
- 43 Millington Hardware & Supply 1
- 44 Annapolis Noland 1
- 45 Woodcraft 1
- 46 Earlbeck Gases & Technologies 1
- 47 Hardware Plus 1
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