Metro by metro
The leading hardware store chains in every Maine metro area
Tracked hardware store chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Harbor Freight Tools leads in 1 metro area, Aubuchon Hardware in 1 metro area, and Ace Hardware in 1 metro area. Against their share in Maine as a whole, Aubuchon Hardware stands out in 1 metro area, Ace Hardware in 1 metro area.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Aubuchon Hardware
Relative #1 in Bangor, ME, 2.9× its share in Maine
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Ace Hardware
Relative #1 in Portland-South Portland, ME, 2.4× its share in Maine
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Lewiston-Auburn, ME
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Harbor Freight Tools
#1 in Lewiston-Auburn, ME
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Aubuchon Hardware
#1 in Bangor, ME
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked hardware store chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Maine compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Maine as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Maine and the chains that lead a metro area by spend, wherever a chain has at least 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there. Metro areas are the Census Bureau's metropolitan statistical areas; the rest of Maine is light gray. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.
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. Aubuchon Hardware and Ace Hardware sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aubuchon Hardware | - | +6.5% |
| 2 | Ace Hardware | - | +6.0% |
| 3 | Harbor Freight Tools | - | -7.7% |
| 4 | Ware-Butler Building Supply | - | -100.0% |
- Harbor Freight Tools
- Aubuchon Hardware
- Ace Hardware
- Eldredge Lumber & Ace Hardware
- Ames True Value Hardware and Supply
- Eldredge Lumber and Hardware
- Plummer's Ace Hardware
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
164 tracked store locations in Maine. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 62 of the 164 stores (38%); 98 of the 105 tracked chains have a single store here. 8% of the tracked retail stores here are hardware stores, against 4% across the United States.
- Harbor Freight Tools (9)
- Aubuchon Hardware (19)
- Ace Hardware (15)
- Eldredge Lumber & Ace Hardware (1)
- Ames True Value Hardware and Supply (1)
- Eldredge Lumber and Hardware (1)
- Plummer's Ace Hardware (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Aubuchon Hardware 19
- 2 Ace Hardware 15
- 3 Ware-Butler Building Supply 11
- 4 Harbor Freight Tools 9
- 5 True Value 8
- 6 Deering Lumber 2
- 7 Greenway Equipment Sales 2
- 8 Mike's and Sons 1
- 9 Industrial Hardware 1
- 10 Sterns Lumber Co 1
- 11 Winter Harbor 5 & 10 1
- 12 Freeport Hardware 1
- 13 Lewiston Paint & Wallpaper 1
- 14 Hansons Hometown Hardware 1
- 15 Champagne True Value Lumber and Hardware 1
- 16 Three Rivers Hardware 1
- 17 Brooks Bros. 1
- 18 Oxford Lawn and Garden 1
- 19 McEachern & Hutchins 1
- 20 Grover's Hardware 1
- 21 Handyman Equipment Rental 1
- 22 Benjamin Tibbetts Inc 1
- 23 Horton Building Supplies 1
- 24 Harvey's Hardware 1
- 25 Gibbs Family Hardware 1
- 26 Selco Plumbing and Heating Supplies 1
- 27 Rob's 1
- 28 Northland True Value Hardware 1
- 29 TK Power Equipment 1
- 30 Fisherman's Friend 1
- 31 Gosline's Hardware 1
- 32 Welch's Hardware & Lumber 1
- 33 Bangor Paint and Wallpaper 1
- 34 Campbell's True Value 1
- 35 Pete's Hardware 1
- 36 Surry General Store 1
- 37 Anderson Marine & Hardware 1
- 38 Machias River General 1
- 39 Wilton Hardware Store 1
- 40 Danforth Hardware 1
- 41 Trumbulls Hardware 1
- 42 Liberty Tool Company 1
- 43 Taylor True Value Rental 1
- 44 Lubec Hardware 1
- 45 Landscape Supply Center 1
- 46 Kezar Falls Hardware Inc. 1
- 47 Maine Hardware 1
- 48 Hampden Hardware 1
- 49 Lovell Hardware Inc. 1
- 50 Strong Hardware & Building Supply 1
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