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. Ace Hardware and Harbor Freight Tools sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ace Hardware | - | +18.4% |
| 2 | Harbor Freight Tools | - | +8.9% |
| 3 | Strosnider's | ▲1 | -6.8% |
| 4 | Schumacher & Seiler | ▲1 | -20.0% |
| 5 | True Value | ▼1 | -49.3% |
| 6 | Rommel's Ace Home Center | ▼1 | -64.8% |
- Harbor Freight Tools
- Ace Hardware
- Sneade's Ace Home Center
- North East Lowe's
- Costello's Ace Hardware
- Northeastern Supply
- Strosnider's
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
198 tracked store locations in Maryland. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 82 of the 198 stores (41%); 97 of the 109 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked retail stores here are hardware stores, against 4% across the United States.
- Harbor Freight Tools (22)
- Ace Hardware (27)
- Sneade's Ace Home Center (2)
- North East Lowe's (1)
- Costello's Ace Hardware (3)
- Northeastern Supply (19)
- Strosnider's (3)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Ace Hardware 27
- 2 Harbor Freight Tools 22
- 3 Northeastern Supply 19
- 4 True Value 9
- 5 Schumacher & Seiler 5
- 6 Rommel's Ace Home Center 5
- 7 Costello's Ace Hardware 3
- 8 Strosnider's 3
- 9 Three Mules Welding Supplies 2
- 10 Belair Road Supply 2
- 11 Sneade's Ace Home Center 2
- 12 Castle Wholesalers 2
- 13 City Electric Supply Rockville 1
- 14 Beltway Plaza Hardware 1
- 15 Tools and Accessories Corporation 1
- 16 American Service Center Inc 1
- 17 Mackie's Home Center, Inc. 1
- 18 Eastern Service Corporation 1
- 19 Poolesville Hardware 1
- 20 Midway Lumber 1
- 21 Suburban Paint & Commercial Supply 1
- 22 Severna Lawn & Power 1
- 23 Hardware Plus 1
- 24 Ayd Hardware 1
- 25 Hubbert's Hardware 1
- 26 Western Maryland Outdoor Power 1
- 27 Commercial Mower Depot 1
- 28 Shawley's Hardware 1
- 29 Nagel Hardware 1
- 30 B & N Sales Inc 1
- 31 Salisbury Noland 1
- 32 MacMillan Outdoor Power Equipment 1
- 33 Naylors Hardware 1
- 34 Benjamin Lumber and Fuel Co 1
- 35 Elliott's Hardware 1
- 36 Easton Hardware & Floor Covering 1
- 37 Sandyfill Reclamation 1
- 38 Robnet Fasteners 1
- 39 Kohler Equipment Inc 1
- 40 Kefauver Lumber Company 1
- 41 Delta Lumber 1
- 42 Clarks Ace Hardware 1
- 43 Frostburg Rental & Sales 1
- 44 Toolman Inc. 1
- 45 Lanham Cycle and Turf Equipment 1
- 46 Newsom Seed 1
- 47 The Farmers & Planters Co. 1
- 48 Eldersberg Sales & Service Repair 1
- 49 Allegany Concrete 1
- 50 Schneider Paint and Hardware 1
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