HHIQ 2Q 2016
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HOME HARDWARE NAMES<br />
VP MARKETING AND SALES<br />
R<br />
ick McNabb has been named vice<br />
president, marketing and sales for<br />
Home Hardware Stores Ltd. The<br />
hire, which is effective March 7, comes<br />
after months of searching and brings in<br />
an outsider to the ranks of Canada’s largest<br />
co-op home improvement retailer, which<br />
is well known for hiring from within.<br />
McNabb was formerly with Cara<br />
Foods, most recently as COO of Swiss<br />
Chalet and Harvey’s. In addition, his<br />
family has been in the home improvement<br />
business for 38 years: McNabb’s<br />
brother Gary owns the Home Building<br />
Centre in Parry Sound, Ont.<br />
The latest hire also continues the<br />
realignment of Home Hardware’s executive<br />
structure that began in 2015 under<br />
CEO Terry Davis. That restructure created<br />
a single merchandise organization responsible<br />
for all product sourcing led by one<br />
vice-president, Joel Marks. The addition<br />
of a vice-president, marketing and sales<br />
completes the formation of an integrated<br />
marketing and sales organization.<br />
“As we strengthen our company<br />
for the future and ensure that we are<br />
well positioned to continue serving<br />
our dealer-owners, we welcome Rick’s<br />
extensive marketing and operations<br />
expertise and proven leadership to our<br />
team,” Davis said.<br />
As part of the move, Dunc Wilson, who<br />
had been serving as acting vice president<br />
of operations, will now report directly to<br />
McNabb in a new role as executive director,<br />
retail sales and support. Rob Wallace,<br />
director, marketing, will also report to<br />
McNabb.<br />
“We thank Dunc Wilson for his dedication<br />
and leadership over the past year<br />
as the acting vice-president, operations.”<br />
Davis added. “We look forward to Dunc’s<br />
ongoing support in his new role.”<br />
Rick McNabb has been named vice president,<br />
marketing and sales for Home Hardware Stores Ltd.<br />
BRIEFLY<br />
ORGILL ADDS TRUCKS TO<br />
SERVE CANADIAN CUSTOMERS<br />
Orgill Canada Hardlines continues to beef<br />
up its new London, Ont., facility, including<br />
increasing the size of its truck fleet with a<br />
dedicated service for the growing base of<br />
customers in Central Canada. The company<br />
has added 10 new tractors, 20 new trailers,<br />
and hired 10 new drivers to deliver product<br />
to customers located in Ontario and southern<br />
Quebec. Service will continue as before to the<br />
West and Atlantic Canada.<br />
ARRLIN JOINS TORBSA<br />
TORBSA Limited has announced the addition<br />
of a new independent member. Arrlin Interior<br />
Supply Inc. in Toronto has joined as a shareholder<br />
member of the buying group.<br />
Over the last 31 years, Arrlin has built a<br />
successful distribution business. According<br />
to Bob Holmes, general manager of TORBSA,<br />
the group continues to seek out opportunities<br />
to build its base of independent building<br />
materials dealers.<br />
ONTARIANS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF<br />
ENERGY-SAVINGS COUPONS<br />
More than two million consumers in Ontario<br />
availed themselves of energy-savings coupons,<br />
the CBC reports. The numbers come<br />
from the province’s Independent Electricity<br />
System Operator, which funds the saveO-<br />
Nenergy program. Available online and<br />
in certain hardware stores, the coupons<br />
offered savings of up to $30 on high-efficiency<br />
appliances.<br />
“They’re very popular,” Brad Swanson,<br />
owner of a Kitchener Home Hardware<br />
store, told the CBC. “The most popular ones<br />
nowadays are for the LED light bulbs. We sell<br />
tens of thousands of them.”<br />
www.hardlines.ca Hardlines Home Improvement Quarterly SECOND QUARTER / <strong>2016</strong> 15
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