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 | - | +2.2% |
| 2 | Ace Hardware | - | -0.5% |
- Ace Hardware
- Eldredge Lumber & Ace Hardware
- Eldredge Lumber and Hardware
- Plummer's Ace Hardware
- Aubuchon Hardware
- Springvale Hardware
- Harbor Freight Tools
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
48 tracked store locations in Portland-South Portland, ME. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 20 of the 48 stores (42%); 29 of the 33 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked retail stores here are hardware stores, against 8% across Maine.
- Ace Hardware (11)
- Eldredge Lumber & Ace Hardware (1)
- Eldredge Lumber and Hardware (1)
- Plummer's Ace Hardware (1)
- Aubuchon Hardware (4)
- Springvale Hardware (1)
- Harbor Freight Tools (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Ace Hardware 11
- 2 Aubuchon Hardware 4
- 3 Deering Lumber 2
- 4 True Value 2
- 5 Steep Falls Building Supply 1
- 6 Portland Plastic Pipe 1
- 7 Cornish Hardware 1
- 8 Winsupply of Portland 1
- 9 Shoppers Hardware 1
- 10 Standish Hardware 1
- 11 TK Power Equipment 1
- 12 Handyman Equipment Rental 1
- 13 Hansons Hometown Hardware 1
- 14 Freeport Hardware 1
- 15 Industrial Hardware 1
- 16 Maine Hardware 1
- 17 Taylor True Value Rental 1
- 18 Welch's Hardware & Lumber 1
- 19 Morse Hardware and Lumber 1
- 20 Foreside Outdoor Power 1
- 21 Shaw's Hardware 1
- 22 Paris Farmers Union (Bridgton) 1
- 23 Dupuis Hardware Store 1
- 24 Rockler Woodworking and Hardware 1
- 25 Gray True Value Hardware 1
- 26 F.M. Abbott Power Equipment 1
- 27 Bath Industrial Sales 1
- 28 Gray Village Hardware 1
- 29 Harbor Freight Tools 1
- 30 Springvale Hardware 1
- 31 Plummer's Ace Hardware 1
- 32 Eldredge Lumber and Hardware 1
- 33 Eldredge Lumber & Ace Hardware 1
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