Hardware Age home improvement market: market 2000

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The home improvement market will remain healthy as the industry moves closer to the year 2000. The retail consolidation trend is going strong during 1996 and will continue, leaving many smaller retailers bankrupt or merged with larger entities. Home remodeling and do-it-yourself sectors will continue to flourish, although the market will grow at a slower pace during the latter half of the 1990s. The older consumer will be more incline to save, which will have a negative effect on economic growth.

Residential Building Construction, Home Centers, BUILDING MATERIALS & GARDEN SUPPLIES, Housing Additions & Alterations, Home Center Stores, Construction industry, Dwellings, Remodeling and renovation, Home remodeling

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Farmer to Germans: prepare for 'less.' (European retailers forecast)

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Lowe's Companies Inc board member Carol Farmer spoke to retailers at the International Hardware Fair about the future of the hardware industry in Europe. Farmer believes that European retailers will face stiffer competition and slower spending. Germans themselves have discovered that consumer spending has decreased, and the number of stores has exceeded the degree of consumer interest.

Europe, Officials and employees, Exhibitions, Lowe's Companies Inc., LOW, Hardware industry, Farmer, Carol

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Carolina Holdings: a retailer to builders

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Carolina Holdings has transformed itself from a small building supply chain then known as Carolina Builders into an industry powerhouse with 1997 revenues expected to top $1 billion. Carolina Holdings now consists of 95 stores in 12 states, thanks largely to acquisitions. Company CEO Fenton Hord is credited with the company's transformation and exceptional performance.

Management, Hord, Fenton, Carolina Holdings Inc.

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