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. Berland's House of Tools and Ace Hardware sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Berland's House of Tools | ▲1 | +12.4% |
| 2 | Ace Hardware | - | +6.7% |
| 3 | Crawford Supply | - | +2.2% |
| 4 | Harbor Freight Tools | - | -1.4% |
| 5 | True Value | ▼1 | -4.1% |
| 6 | Ziegler's Ace | - | -11.8% |
| 7 | Leeps Supply | - | -15.7% |
| 8 | Northern Tool + Equipment | - | -93.9% |
- Ace Hardware
- Harbor Freight Tools
- Wm F Meyer Co
- Ziegler's Ace
- Lens Ace Hardware LLC
- Morton Grove Supply Co Inc
- Berland's House of Tools
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
274 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 145 of the 274 stores (53%); 104 of the 118 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked retail stores here are hardware stores, against 4% across Illinois.
- Ace Hardware (91)
- Harbor Freight Tools (27)
- Wm F Meyer Co (3)
- Ziegler's Ace (8)
- Lens Ace Hardware LLC (1)
- Morton Grove Supply Co Inc (1)
- Berland's House of Tools (3)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Ace Hardware 91
- 2 Harbor Freight Tools 27
- 3 True Value 13
- 4 Ziegler's Ace 8
- 5 Leeps Supply 6
- 6 Crawford Supply 4
- 7 AMES Tools 4
- 8 Wm F Meyer Co 3
- 9 Berland's House of Tools 3
- 10 Northern Tool + Equipment 3
- 11 Shorewood Home and Auto 2
- 12 R.P. Lumber 2
- 13 Crafty Beaver Home Center 2
- 14 Rockler Woodworking and Hardware 2
- 15 Clarendon Hills Hardware 1
- 16 Rogers Supply Joliet 1
- 17 H&B True Value Hardware 1
- 18 DEWALT Service Center 1
- 19 Bull Valley Hardwood 1
- 20 Cottage Grove Hardware 1
- 21 Andersonville Hardware Store 1
- 22 Evanston Lumber Co. 1
- 23 City Electric Supply Lake Zurich 1
- 24 Mitchell Hardware Supply 1
- 25 City Welding Sales 1
- 26 Wahler Brother's Hardware 1
- 27 Royal Pipe and Supply Co 1
- 28 Addison Building Materials 1
- 29 Scottdale Feed and Supply 1
- 30 Harlem Plumbing Supply 1
- 31 Gordon Hardware 1
- 32 Bosch 1
- 33 North Shore Faucets Inc 1
- 34 House of Color 1
- 35 Dsg Restaurant 1
- 36 House of Metals Inc 1
- 37 Broadview Hardware 1
- 38 State Street Repair 1
- 39 Direct Tools Factory Outlet 1
- 40 Terrace Supply Company 1
- 41 Remington Commercial Supply 1
- 42 Do it Best St. Charles Hardware Store 1
- 43 Bess Hardware and Sports 1
- 44 Chicago True Value Hardware 1
- 45 Selected Hardwood Flooring And Supply Co. 1
- 46 Naperville Rental 1
- 47 Englewood Hardware & Paint 1
- 48 Grant Electric Supply 1
- 49 Yu Hardware 1
- 50 Crete Lumber & Supply Co. 1
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