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 | - | +4.5% |
| 2 | Ace Hardware | - | -1.2% |
| 3 | Elliott's Hardware | ▲1 | -13.1% |
| 4 | National Wholesale Supply | - | -14.1% |
| 5 | Rockler Woodworking and Hardware | ▼1 | -24.5% |
- Harbor Freight Tools
- Ace Hardware
- Jabo's Ace Hardware
- Apex Supply Company
- Northern Tool + Equipment
- Elliott's Hardware
- Rockler Woodworking and Hardware
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
165 tracked store locations in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 74 of the 165 stores (45%); 70 of the 83 tracked chains have a single store here. 2% of the tracked retail stores here are hardware stores, against 3% across Texas.
- Harbor Freight Tools (29)
- Ace Hardware (32)
- Jabo's Ace Hardware (2)
- Apex Supply Company (5)
- Northern Tool + Equipment (2)
- Elliott's Hardware (4)
- Rockler Woodworking and Hardware (4)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Ace Hardware 32
- 2 Harbor Freight Tools 29
- 3 Apex Supply Company 5
- 4 Elliott's Hardware 4
- 5 Rockler Woodworking and Hardware 4
- 6 National Wholesale Supply 4
- 7 Murco Wall Products 4
- 8 Mitchell Welding Supply 3
- 9 Metroplex Welding Supply 2
- 10 Westlake Ace Hardware 2
- 11 ATS Outdoors 2
- 12 Jabo's Ace Hardware 2
- 13 Northern Tool + Equipment 2
- 14 Moore Supply Duncanville 1
- 15 G & L General Store 1
- 16 Rio Vista Hardware 1
- 17 Crouch Sales Co., Inc. 1
- 18 Higginbotham Brothers 1
- 19 Green Supply Co 1
- 20 Commerce Hardware Fix and Feed 1
- 21 Dickson Tool & Equipment 1
- 22 Riverside Hardware 1
- 23 Big D Bolt and Tool 1
- 24 Ponder Hardware 1
- 25 Forest Hill Lumber Co 1
- 26 Superior Wire 1
- 27 North Texas Farm & Garden 1
- 28 Recappers Equipment Co 1
- 29 Blue Lake Roofing Supply 1
- 30 FixandFeed Hardware 1
- 31 Texas Tool Traders 1
- 32 Duck Cove Hardware 1
- 33 Johnson County Pipe 1
- 34 The Sale Hardware Supplies 1
- 35 The Pallet Company 1
- 36 Louisiana Stone 1
- 37 Greenville Hardware 1
- 38 Red Ball Oxygen 1
- 39 Sartin's Powerhouse 1
- 40 Burleson Outdoor Power Equipment 1
- 41 Lektrotech Inc 1
- 42 Seven Star Tools 1
- 43 Ok Lumber 1
- 44 Royse City Hardware 1
- 45 Davis-Hawn Lumber & Architectural Millworks 1
- 46 Nicholson Hardie 1
- 47 Arrow Bolt and Electric 1
- 48 3H Hardware South 1
- 49 Shark Specialty Tools 1
- 50 Fulton's Metal & Hardware 1
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