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Home Hardware Stores Limited Supports Haitian Earthquake Relief

Encourages Canadians to contribute to aid organizations

St. Jacobs, Jan. 15 - Home Hardware Stores Limited, Canada's largest independent hardware, lumber and building materials and furniture retailer is urging Canadians to join them in contributing to the immense earthquake relief efforts underway in Haiti.

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Home Hardware Dealers Honoured at Hardware Merchandising's Outstanding Retailer Awards

Toronto, ON, October 22, 2009 - Today, at the 2009 Outstanding Retailer Awards ceremony held in Toronto, Home Hardware Dealer-Owners with three of the six prestigious awards presented by Hardware Merchandising Magazine.

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Grand Prize Winners Announced in Home Hardware's Drive Home a Toyota Contest

Contest celebrates 45 years in Canada for Home Hardware and Toyota

Home Hardware Stores Limited announced the grand prize winners of the Drive Home a Toyota contest today. Three lucky winners across Canada will each receive a 2010 Toyota RAV4 4WD V6 Sport. The three winners are Louis Frenette from Bathurst, New Brunswick, Christina Philips from Brampton, Ontario, and Chris Morgan from Killam, Alberta.

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Grand Prize Winner of Home Hardware's $50,000 Ultimate Backyard Makeover Contest Revealed

On Friday August 7th, Gail Davis found out on live television that she is this year's grand prize winner of the Home Hardware $50,000 Ultimate Backyard Makeover Contest. With entries made all across Canada, Gail's ballot was drawn out of more than 90,000 ballots to win the grand prize. 

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Owen Sound Resident is Grand Prize Winner of 2009 Toyota Tundra in Home Hardware's Win the Truck that's Tough As Nails Contest

Local Owen Sound resident Chris Taylor, was surprised to learn he was the grand prize winner of a 2009 Toyota Tundra while making a routine visit to his local Home Hardware Building Centre. Chris entered a ballot for the contest in January while in attendance at Home Hardware's Tough as Nails Contractor Show in Orangeville with local business Steve Doherty Construction of Owen Sound

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Home Owners Helping to Get Home Ice

Home Hardware supports campaign to bring new NHL team to Canada

Home Hardware Stores Limited is proud to announce its official support of the Make it Seven campaign. The campaign, led by Canadian businessman Jim Balsillie, will bring together hockey fans from across Canada to advocate for the addition of a seventh Canadian NHL team.

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Quincaillerie Home Hardware - Rimouski Named Top Home Hardware Store in Canada

Quincaillerie Home Hardware - Rimouski was presented with Home Hardware's top honour, the Walter J. Hachborn Store of the Year Award. Quincaillerie Home Hardware - Rimouski, located at 308, Avenue Rouleau, Rimouski, Quebec, was selected from among more than 1,000 locations across Canada for achieving the highest standards in retailing, merchandising, staff performance and overall quality of store.

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Home Hardware $50,000 Dream Kitchen Makeover Winners

 

Click here for a full list of winners in Home Hardware's $50,000 Dream Kitchen Makeover Sweepstakes.

 

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Toyota Canada and Home Hardware Stores Limited Announce a Muilti-year Relationship

Toyota Canada and Home Hardware Stores Limited announced a new multi-year business relationship today, making Toyota the official vehicle of Home Hardware and Home Hardware the official home improvement retailer of Toyota. As a result of this new relationship, the companies both known for their quality, value and customer service levels will work together on marketing promotions in stores, at trade shows and in promotional materials.

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Home Hardware Sells Two Million Natura Cloths
Sales of environmentally friendly Natura product line grow at rapid pace

Home Hardware Stores Limited announced today that it has now sold more than two million of the company’s exclusive Natura Cloths, demonstrating high consumer demand for top quality environmentally conscious products.

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Colours that Work

Have you ever toiled away a weekend painting a room or rooms in your home, only to look at the end result and say, “AARG!” To make you say, “AHHH!” instead, here are Beauti-Tone’s Colours that WORK, the top ten colours that will always look great.

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Platinum Anniversary for Home Hardware Co-Founder Walter Hachborn Marks 70 Years of Shaping the Canadian Home Improvement Retailing Industry

In June 1938, Walter Hachborn took a job as a stock-boy at a local hardware store and launched what would become a remarkable seventy-year career. Over the past seven decades the President and Co-Founder of Home Hardware Stores Limited turned an $8.00 a week job into the nation’s largest network of independent hardware Dealers and a $4.8 billion Canadian icon.

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Windsor Home Hardware wins National Recognition with “Best Hardware Store” Award Store receives honours at Hardware Merchandising’s Outstanding Retailer Awards

Hardware Merchandising Magazine recently awarded Windsor Home Hardware the Hardware Store of the Year award at the 2008 Outstanding Retailer Awards ceremony in Toronto on October 23rd.

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Home Hardware Building Centre - Lloydminster wins National Recognition with “Outstanding Building Supply Store” Award . Store receives honours at Hardware Merchandising’s Outstanding Retailer Awards

Lloydminster, AB, October 23, 2008 – Hardware Merchandising Magazine awarded Home Hardware Building Centre – Lloydminster with the Outstanding Building Supply Store Over 15,000 Square Feet award at the 2008 Outstanding Retailer Awards ceremony today in Toronto.

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Grand Prize Winner of Home Hardware $50,000 Ultimate Backyard Makeover Contest Announced

St. Jacobs, ON, August 06, 2008 – This summer, Andrée De Montigny’s backyard will receive a $50,000 overhaul thanks to Home Hardware’s $50,000 Ultimate Backyard Makeover Contest. The contest, which ran across Canada from April 24 until June 1, saw more than 500,000 thousand Canadians submit ballots in hopes of receiving the dream makeover.

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Product Recall of Dorcy Canada Rechargeable Lantern

Burlington, ON, November X, 2008 - Dorcy Canada has announced a voluntary recall of rechargeable lanterns sold by Home Hardware. The product is identified as the Dorcy Canada Rechargeable Lantern and carries the product number 5330-796.

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Runway Collection

Personal, secretive, decorative touches that delight. Paint is an easy and fun way to surprise and refresh. Take inspiration from leading fashion designers. This beautiful Simon Chang dress becomes eye-catching with an unexpected lining accented against black.

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Partnership Between Home Hardware and Aeroplan Takes Flight

Paul Straus, Vice President and CEO of Home Hardware Stores Limited and Rob Shields, Vice President of Partnerships, Aeroplan (TSX: AER.UN), today, officially launched a dynamic new partnership between Home Hardware, Canada's largest independent home improvement retailer and Aeroplan, the country's premier loyalty marketing company. Mr. Straus and Mr. Shields marked the partnership launch, held at Canada's first Home Hardware location in St. Jacobs, Ontario, by completing the first transaction to earn Aeroplan Miles while shopping at Home Hardware.

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Home Hardware Stores Limited Contributes $1 Million to Waterloo Region Hospitals

Grand River Hospital Foundation and St. Mary’s General Hospital Foundation announced today a donation of $1 million from Home Hardware Stores Limited. The gift will fund the redevelopment of the Intensive Care Unit at Grand River Hospital and the new Centre of Excellence in Urology at St. Mary’s General Hospital, helping to provide Waterloo region patients and their families the with the most advanced technology and expert care.

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Aeroplan Hammers Out New Partnership with Home Hardware

Aeroplan (AER.UN) and Home Hardware Stores Limited today announced a national, exclusive multi-year partnership. Starting in early 2007, Aeroplan members can earn 1 Aeroplan Mile for every $2 spent at the more than 1,000 Home Hardware, Home Building Centre, Home Hardware Building Centre and Home Furniture stores across Canada. Additionally, Aeroplan members can redeem Aeroplan Miles for Home Hardware Gift Cards.

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