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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 |
| 2009 fiscal sales: |
$2.46 billion |
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| Fiscal year end: |
June 27, 2009 |
| 2009 member rebate: |
$111.8 million |
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| Member locations: |
4,100 |
| Total SKUs: |
65,000 |
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: |
1,403 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 Dave Haist, Executive VP & COO Jay Brown, VP-Sales & Retail Development Dave Dietz, VP-Finance Steve Markley, VP-Merchandising Quent Ondricek, VP-Lumber and Building Materials John Snider, VP-Retail Logistics Dan Starr, VP-Human Resources & General Counsel Mike Altendorf, VP-Information Technology Tim Miller, VP-Marketing |
Board of directors: Chairman Vice Chairman Secretary Treasurer
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Mike Fujimoto, Hawaii Planing Mill, Ltd., Keaau, HI Pat Sullivan, Sullivan's Do it Best® Hardware, Indianapolis, IN J. Johnson, Johnson's Home and Garden, Maple Valley, WA Ron Gadek, Northbrook Do it Best® Hardware, Northbrook, IL Frank Blair, Schnarr's Hardware Company, Ladue, MO Tom Lamberth, Russell Do it center®, Alexander City, AL Tom Brown, American Home & Hardware, Elkton, MD Howard Miller, Hartville Hardware, Hartville, OH Randy Skinner, Tahlequah Lumber, Tahlequah, OK Niel Crowson, E. C. Barton & Company, Jonesboro, AR Tony Ruggiero, Horseheads Do it center®, Horseheads, NY
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