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August 7, 2012
San Francisco leads top 10 eco-friendly list

California cities dominate the top-ten Eco-Friendliest Cities list assembled by small business-oriented web site thumbtack.com

San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose rank one, two and three on the list, which measures the per capita prevalence of a representative group of ten types of green services. More details about the data are here.

Here are the top ten eco-friendly cities from the list:

May 7, 2012
STAFDA president plays 'Moneyball'

In the latest Trade News newsletter from the Specialty Tools & Fasteners Distributors Association (STAFDA), Kramer Darragh said the modern baseball classic “Moneyball” has applications for the distribution industry.

February 10, 2012
High times for niche retailer

A franchise chain of West Coast supply stores for “indoor gardeners” is bringing its special strain of controversy to Washington, D.C., with a fourth location in the Northeast quadrant of the nation’s capital.

January 12, 2012
New partnership enters foreclosure market

Waypoint Real Estate Group, one of the nation's leading acquirers of distressed, single-family properties, and GI Partners, a mid-market private equity firm, have announced a partnership where they will acquire and then rent out more than $250 million in single-family homes. Ultimately, GI hopes to invest more than $1 billion in distressed and foreclosed homes over the next two years, with Waypoint managing the acquisitions and rental conversions.

July 22, 2011
Retired police lieutenant opening Ace store

Joining the ranks of new Ace Hardware dealers is Ralph Peperone, a retired police lieutenant from New Orleans who plans to open a 10,322-sq.-ft. store in the town of Oakland, Tenn., according to an article in the Memphis Business Journal.

July 15, 2011
Feeney expands line of CableRail cable fittings

Oakland, Calif.-based Feeney Inc., makers of the CableRail brand of architectural cable assemblies, introduced its new line of CableRail swageless Quick-Connect cable hardware. Feeney has taken the patented automatic-locking-jaw design of its original Quick-Connect fitting and applied it to an entire line of cable-end fittings.  

July 12, 2011
Ace Hardware races for a miracle

The Ace Hardware Foundation and local Oakland, Calif.-area Ace retailers presented a check for $34,105 to the Children's Hospital and Research Center Oakland last month.

June 30, 2011
Emerging category: 
From potted plants to pot
June 24, 2011
PCBC sets stage for good, bad and 'ugly'

San Francisco -- Gov. Jerry Brown, mired in the biggest battle of his new term as governor of California, took time to stop in at the PCBC show here to deliver a keynote address that touched lightly on housing but staked out his determination to pass a balanced budget for the nation’s largest state.

“We must continue to retrench, but it’s going to get ugly,” Brown said.

June 14, 2011
Lawn and garden concept opens in Arizona, with a twist

Its nickname is "the Walmart of weed."

Described as the nation's only hydroponics franchise that openly talks about medical marijuana, weGrow opened a 21,000-sq.-ft. store in Phoenix earlier this month. 

November 19, 2008
Three new Ace stores open in Michigan

Oakland County, Mich., has three new Ace Hardware stores, offering a combined 40,000 square feet...

October 21, 2007
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