Home Improvement & Hardware Retail Industry Competitors

Griffin Land & Nurseries aims to reshape the suburban landscape. Through subsidiary Imperial Nurseries, it grows and distributes container-based plants, mostly broadleaf evergreens such as rhododendrons, to garden center operators and the garden departments of retail chain stores....

They are in a Southern state of mind at Sutherland Lumber. The company operates more than 65 lumber and home improvement stores in about 15 states, primarily in the southern and southwestern US. Sutherland's stores range in size from 50,000 to 190,000 sq. ft....

Tractor Supply Company (TSC) supplies tractor parts -- not entire tractors -- and in its stores weekend farmers and ranchers can also pick up farm supplies (including its own private labels) such as fencing, animal feeds, garden products, riding mowers, and work clothes....

William Sinclair Holdings took hold in UK gardens more than 120 years ago when it was founded by William Sinclair. The company makes gardening products for commercial and home use, exfoliated vermiculite, and expanded perlite (products that are used in different forms of insulation)....

ACO Hardware can provide both the food and supplies if you want to get your floor clean enough to eat off. The company's 12,000 sq. ft. outlets sell automotive items, closeouts, electrical goods, food and beverages, hardware, house paint, housewares, pet supplies, seasonal merchandise, sporting goods, supplies and equipment for carpet cleaning, plumbing, and lawn and garden maintenance, and tools....

From seeds to seafood and fertilizer to fencing, Adams Fairacre Farms has a few things covered. The company's three New York state locations offer groceries, power equipment (John Deere tractors and mowers, chippers, chain saws), fencing supplies, landscaping materials, and gardening supplies (plants, seeds, soil, pest control)....

Agri-Starts clones around with plants. The company produces and wholesales tissue culture liners and micro cuttings through its subsidiaries. More simply, Agri-Starts clones plants. The cloning process begins with a single growing tip cut from a plant. From this cut thousands of small plants are grown on a gelled nutrient-rich medium with growth regulators in a temperature- and light-controlled environment....

Apparently, Californians can grow more than citrus and palms. Armstrong Brothers Capital Nursery operates retail nurseries in Sacramento, Citrus Heights, and Elk Grove, California. The experienced staff offers plant recommendations, troubleshooting, and professional landscape design and installation....

It's strange to think that any company "invented" a fruit but Armstrong Garden Centers has just done that. Over the company's history (it was founded in 1889), it has developed the boysenberry along with varieties of peaches, oranges, roses, and the patented Hotbiscus hibiscus....

B&Q helps homeowners mind their p's and q's. The company sells home improvement products for the do-it-yourselfer throughout the UK at more than 330 stores, including large warehouses and smaller supercenters. B&Q also does business in China (60 stores, including the world's biggest B&Q in Beijing), Taiwan (about 20 stores), Ireland (seven stores), and South Korea (several stores)....

Bates Sons & Daughters offers White Christmases in Florida. The company grows and sells caladiums, including the fancy-leaf, dwarf, and strap-leaf types. Bates Sons & Daughters is headquartered in Lake Placid, Florida, where more than 95% of the world's caladiums are grown....

Bernecker's Nursery has it made in the shade. Bernecker's Nursery raises and distributes shade-acclimated Chamaedorea Seifrizii palms and other tropical indoor plants. The company nurtures the Chamaedorea Seifrizii, which has reed-like stems and feathery fronds, to thrive in either artificial or natural light....

For a bevy of beautiful buds to bury in bountiful beds, see Bevo. Bevo Agro propagates and sells seedlings, vegetables, bedding plants and flowering plants that finish growing at their end destination greenhouses. The company produces more than 5 million grafted plants each year....

Blair Nurseries can help with projects outdoors not involving witches. The company, which has 500 acres to work with, grows and sells a wide variety of plants, shrubs, and trees including azaleas, bamboo, boxwood, hydrangea, live oak, and weeping willow. Blair Nurseries offers next day delivery service to Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia....

Bordine Nursery can help you with borders. Or flower beds. Or orchards. The company operates four nurseries in southeastern Michigan growing and selling annuals, perennials, shrubs, roses, and trees. Bordine also offers lawn and patio furniture, fertilizers and plant food, design services, plant guides, and gardening publications....

They're busy as, well, you know what kind of animals at Busy Beaver Building Centers. The company has more than 15 stores in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia selling ceilings, flooring, lumber, plumbing fixtures, and other building materials, along with garden supplies, hardware, power equipment, and tools....

Carter-Jones knows when to yell "timber!" The company is the flagship store of building supplies retailer Carter Lumber. Its store has served the Akron, Ohio, area for more than 70 years, offering contractors and do-it-yourselfers a range of countertops, doors and windows, flooring, hand and power tools, lumber, and plumbing, among other items....

Central Purchasing certainly could lay claim to the expression "the right tool for the job." The company, better recognized by its trade name, Harbor Freight Tools, is one of the country's largest tool and equipment catalog retailers. Harbor Freight Tools offers more than 7,000 tools and equipment items, including products marketed under such brands as Central Machinery, Chicago Electric, DeWalt, Makita, Pittsburgh, and Stanley....

If you're building a house or fixing one up, you might as well Do it Best -- at least, that's the hope of the hardware industry's second-largest cooperative after Ace Hardware. Do it Best has more than 4,100 member-owned stores in the US and more than 45 other countries....

Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? Earl May might know. The company operates more than 50 nurseries and garden centers in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. In addition to the usual silver bells and cockle shells, Earl May also offers seeds, fish and small pets, pet supplies, patio furniture, lawn chemicals, and gifts in its Grandmother's Attic department....