Official name:

 Do it Best Corp.
Headquarters: Fort Wayne, Indiana
Description: A hardware and building materials buying cooperative offering products and retail services to independent hardware, home center, and lumberyard member-owners throughout the world.
Year founded: 1945 as Hardware Wholesalers, Inc. by Arnold Gerberding
2012 fiscal sales: $2.68 billion 2011: $2.41 billion
Fiscal year end: June 30, 2012  
2012 member rebate: $115.7 million  2011: $105.8 million
Member locations: 4,000 (located throughout the United States and in 53 countries)
Total SKUs: 67,000 Fill rate: 97%
Mission statement: Making the best even better®
Philosophy: Serving others as we would like to be served
Goal: To help our members grow
Employee count: 1,404 full-time employees
Retail service centers:

Cape Girardeau, MO
Dixon, IL
Lexington, SC
Medina, OH
Mesquite, NV
Montgomery, NY
Waco, TX
Woodburn, OR

 Regional lumber offices: Burnsville, MN
Fort Wayne, IN
Lexington, SC
Montgomery, NY
Woodburn, OR
Executive staff: Bob Taylor, President & CEO
Dan Starr, Executive VP & COO
Jay Brown, VP-Sales & Retail Development
Doug Roth, VP-Finance
Steve Markley, VP-Merchandising
Quent Ondricek, VP-Lumber and Building Materials
John Snider, VP-Retail Logistics
Gary Furst, VP-Human Resources & General Counsel
Mike Altendorf, VP-Information Technology
Tim Miller, VP-Marketing

Board of directors:

Chairman
Vice Chairman
Secretary
Treasurer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




Tom Lamberth, Russell Do it center®, Alexander City, AL
Jim Lehrer, Brownsboro Hardware & Paint, Louisville, KY
Randy Skinner, Tahlequah Lumber, Tahlequah, OK
Howard Miller, Hartville Hardware, Hartville, OH
Tom Brown, American Home & Hardware, Elkton, MD
Frank Blair, Schnarr's Hardware Company, Ladue, MO
Robert Ashley, Triple “A” Building Center, Canton, NY
John Holmes, Holmes Building Materials, Baton Rouge, LA
J Johnson, Johnson’s Home and Garden, Maple Valley, WA
Scott Parker, Parker Do it Best® Lumber, Beaumont, TX 
Tom Noble, Noble Sales, Rockland, MA
Karena Reusser, Modern Hardware, Woodsfield, OH