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. Woodson Lumber Company and Ritter Lumber Company sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Woodson Lumber Company | ▲2 | +12.9% |
| 2 | Ritter Lumber Company | ▲3 | +9.3% |
| 3 | Ace Hardware | - | +6.5% |
| 4 | Harbor Freight Tools | - | +4.8% |
| 5 | Pate's Hardware | ▲2 | +3.5% |
| 6 | Murco Wall Products | ▲2 | -2.2% |
| 7 | Los Pinos Hardware | - | -5.6% |
| 8 | Northern Tool + Equipment | ▲1 | -7.6% |
| 9 | Alamo Lumber | ▲1 | -11.5% |
| 10 | Elliott's Hardware | ▲1 | -13.9% |
| 11 | Rockler Woodworking and Hardware | ▼1 | -20.7% |
| 12 | National Wholesale Supply | ▼1 | -21.9% |
| 13 | True Value | ▲1 | -22.7% |
| 14 | Westlake Ace Hardware | - | -26.5% |
| 15 | Parker's Building Supply | ▼5 | -58.7% |
- Harbor Freight Tools
- Ace Hardware
- HomeBase USA
- Los Pinos Hardware
- Imco Lumber
- True Value
- Door Clearance Center
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
897 tracked store locations in Texas. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 327 of the 897 stores (36%); 447 of the 488 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 (132)
- Ace Hardware (137)
- HomeBase USA (1)
- Los Pinos Hardware (3)
- Imco Lumber (2)
- True Value (22)
- Door Clearance Center (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Ace Hardware 137
- 2 Harbor Freight Tools 132
- 3 Higginbotham Brothers 24
- 4 True Value 22
- 5 Parker's Building Supply 12
- 6 Alamo Lumber 12
- 7 Pate's Hardware 8
- 8 Murco Wall Products 8
- 9 Woodson Lumber Company 7
- 10 Rockler Woodworking and Hardware 7
- 11 National Wholesale Supply 6
- 12 Apex Supply Company 5
- 13 Northern Tool + Equipment 4
- 14 Elliott's Hardware 4
- 15 Ritter Lumber Company 3
- 16 Los Pinos Hardware 3
- 17 Direct Tools Factory Outlet 3
- 18 Mitchell Welding Supply 3
- 19 Westlake Ace Hardware 3
- 20 Alamo Lumber Company 2
- 21 Potetz Home Center 2
- 22 Bell Fence Supply 2
- 23 Outdoor Equipment Outlet 2
- 24 Woodcraft 2
- 25 ATS Outdoors 2
- 26 AGM Tools 2
- 27 Hevenor Lumber & Hardware 2
- 28 Guys Lumber and Hardware 2
- 29 Apple Lumber 2
- 30 Texas Plumbing Supply 2
- 31 Metroplex Welding Supply 2
- 32 Smith Supply Co 2
- 33 Sims Plastics 2
- 34 Border Hardware 2
- 35 Imco Lumber 2
- 36 Jabo's Ace Hardware 2
- 37 Houston Truck Tarps 1
- 38 Ace of Vernon 1
- 39 Magnolia Hardware and Supply 1
- 40 Anderle Lumber Company 1
- 41 Gordon Hardware 1
- 42 Rowlett Hardware 1
- 43 Mower Depot 1
- 44 Lee Roy Jordan Lumber Company 1
- 45 All American Gases 1
- 46 Embellish My Home 1
- 47 PMI Pipe Steel and Supplies 1
- 48 Gross-Yowell 1
- 49 Door Clearance Center 1
- 50 Court Hardware Company 1
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