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Don Phillips Named Vice President of Operations at House-Hasson Hardware
Posted March 16, 2012
Don Phillips has been named vice president of operations for House-Hasson Hardware. In his new role, Phillips will supervise House-Hasson’s Knoxville, Tenn. and Prichard, W. Va. warehouses. These warehouses are staffed by 176 employees and have a combined 700,000 square feet of product space.
Phillips joined House-Hasson in April 2011 as head of the company’s Knoxville warehouse. Becoming operations vice president acknowledges his effectiveness for House-Hasson’s hardware store and lumberyard customers, said Don Hasson, president of House-Hasson Hardware.
“Don’s background prepared him well for his role with us and his performance has proven that he’s a top-level organizer, manager and thinker,” said Hasson. “Our overriding goal is the profitability of our dealers, and warehouse operations are absolutely crucial to that effort. Don understands that and makes good things happen.”
source:NRHA
Positive signs from House-Hasson market
Sales at House-Hasson Hardware’s October market in Sevierville, Tenn. saw a 20% increase over the previous year’s fall market, the company announced.
Posted November 22, 2011
Sales at House-Hasson Hardware’s October market in Sevierville, Tenn. saw a 20% increase over the previous year’s fall market, the company announced.
“Market attendance was up 25%, sales volume was up 20%,” said Don Hasson, president of the Knoxville, Ten.-based company. “This isn’t to suggest by any means that the economic situation nationally is turning around, but it is an indicator that hardware and home improvement are showing certain levels of stability and growth.”
House-Hasson, America’s largest regional wholesale hardware distributor, used the market to premier its “paint store within a hardware store,” concept, part of the company’s strategy to enable dealers to become single-source customer destination.
“We added more than 2,500 paint sundries to our inventory and displayed how the ‘paint store in a hardware store’ can work,’ “Hasson said. “We were very pleased with how it was received.”
Mike Woolf, House-Hasson vice president of sales, said that electronic ordering saw a major jump from its first appearance at last June’s House-Hasson Atlanta market.
“Electronic ordering was up more than 50% over the traditional method of orders being placed using stickers,” Woolf said. “In our upcoming markets we’re going to expand on what we’ve already done in electronic ordering.”
House-Hasson will return to Sevierville-Pigeon Forge, Tenn. for its 2012 summer market.
Source: Home Channel News
House-Hasson Hardware Adds 2,500 Items to Paint Supplies Inventory
House Hasson Wholesale Hardware enable hardware dealers to create complete paint stores within their hardware stores
Posted August 24, 2011
House-Hasson Hardware announced that it has added 2,500 new items to its paint sundries inventory, according to a press release. This addition will enable hardware dealers to create complete paint stores within their hardware stores.
House-Hasson President Don Hasson said an example of the store-within-a-store concept will be set up at the company’s upcoming dealer market, scheduled Sept. 29 – Oct. 1 at the Wilderness Resort in Pigeon Forge, Tenn.
“We’ll construct a small model paint store at the market to show dealers what they can do with these new items,” Hasson said. “A hardware store can sell anything a paint store can sell. Whatever makes it more convenient for customers to shop with our dealers makes our dealers a stronger destination for customers.”
The new products are available out of House-Hasson’s two warehouses, located in Knoxville, Tenn. and Prichard, W.V.
House-Hasson announces group insurance program
The launching of a new insurance program for its dealers is intended to ameliorate high insurance costs.
Posted July 6, 2011
Source: Home Channel News
Independent regional hardware distributor House-Hasson Hardware announced the launching of a new insurance program for its dealers, intended to ameliorate high insurance costs. Made possible by Addison & Associates of Memphis, Tenn., the program will allow dealers to come together to purchase health and property and casualty insurance as a group.
“It’s very simple,” said Don Hasson, president of Knoxville, Tenn.-based House-Hasson. “If a group of four has someone who has an expensive illness it’s going to drive up their costs - and possibly cost them their insurance. When you’re part of a larger group the cost ratio tends to go down.”
Responses to the new insurance program have been very positive, with nearly 80 dealer leads at House-Hasson’s Atlanta market held June 23-25, the company said. “We did a soft launch at the market to gauge interest without a lot of hype. We’re very encouraged by the results. We’ll now be informing all our dealers of this program,” said Hasson.
Dealers look forward to the prospect of lower insurance costs. Terry Garrison, House-Hasson dealer and owner of HomePro of Hartsville in Hartsville, Tenn., expressed optimism about the new insurance program. “This is going to be great. It should lower dealers’ rates,” he said. “We’ve had to go out and shop independently for pricing. To say insurance rates are high is an understatement. For independents, it’s ridiculous.” He added that insurance rates became so high that HomePro of Hartsville was forced to stop supplying insurance for employees, and that he believed many other independent dealers have had to do the same.
Garrison is not alone in feeling positive about the new program. “We’ve gotten nothing but good comments,” said Hasson. “This is a House-Hasson exclusive and something no one else is doing. We’re always looking for every way we can find to help our dealers be more profitable and successful. Helping them lower their insurance costs is an important way to help make that happen.”
Source: Home Channel News
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House-Hasson seizes opportunity, expands paint market
Home Channel News
Posted May 20, 2011
Knoxville, Tenn.-based regional hardware distributor House-Hasson Hardware is expanding its paint and sundries offerings with the addition of a new sales team from an unidentified “financially ailing paint company,” according toan article in the Knoxville News.
“We are getting full-blown into paint and paint sundries," company president Don Hasson told the news outlet.
House-Hasson, a wholesale distributor of products to independent hardware stores and lumberyards, has added a 10-person sales team and their territories from a company that Hasson declined to identify. While House-Hasson already sells paint to hardware stores and lumberyards, this will allow the company to also sell through paint stores, he said.
The Merit Group, the nation’s largest distributor of paint sundry products, filed a voluntary petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this week. The Spartanburg, S.C.-based company, which does business as Lancaster and Five Star, has obtained a commitment for a $55 million debtor in possession financing from its senior lender to continue operations during the reorganization process. But it has announced its intention to explore a possible sale as a strategic alternative.
House-Hasson has spent $3 million in the last 15 months, adding warehouse space, new truck bays, racks, conveyor systems and technology upgrades to its warehouses as a result of the company’s 2009 acquisition of Moore-Handley, an Alabama-based hardware distributor. The distributor serves nearly 2,000 independent hardware dealers in 17 states and the Caribbean. Annual sales are approximately $200 million.
