Lowe’s Hardware Stores

Lowe’s hardware store, officially known as Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, is a chain of home improvement and appliance centers originating in North Carolina in 1946.  Over the years, it has made strategic business moves that propelled it to become the second biggest chain of hardware stores today in all of the United States, second only to Home Depot.  Lowe’s Hardware operates in all 50 states in the United States, and maintains a chain in Canada’s Ontario district.  Its 1,555 stores serve over 14 million customers weekly.  The expanse of Lowe’s operation earned for it lucrative revenues reaching $46.9 billion in 2006.

Lowe’s Hardware stores carry popular hardware and appliance brands like Black and Decker, Hitachi, Bosch and Bolens for tools; GE, Frigidaire, Samsung and Fisher and Paykel for appliances; and Jacuzzi, Roundup, Scotts and Ortho for baths and gardens.    Aside from these, they also carry a number of labels exclusive only to Lowe’s hardware stores.  They include Harbor Breeze for ceiling fans and accessories, Kobalt and Task Force for tools, Perfect Flame for grills, Portfolio for lighting, TopChoice for lumber and Utilitech for electrical supplies.

Aside from its commercial operations, Lowe’s Hardware is in the forefront of environmental causes and in promoting energy-sufficient products which earned for it the Energy Star Retail Partner for 2004.  Consistent with its tag line, “Let’s build something together,” Lowes helped design and market house plans and building materials under its Katrina Cottage, meant as affordable yet sturdy home models in place of houses devastated by Hurricane Katrina.