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Article: Like a PRO: for more than five decades, PRO Group has helped independent stores succeed.(DISTRIBUTOR PROFILE: PRO GROUP)(Company overview)
- Article from:
- Hardware Retailing
- Article date:
- November 1, 2009
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2009 National Retail Hardware Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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After years of working for a big box corporate hardware store, Paul L. Cosgrave witnessed firsthand the struggle of competing independent stores. So he and his wife, Hazel, decided to start their own company to help those independent stores thrive. They founded PRO Hardware.
THOUGH IT SOUNDS LIKE A BUSINESS model inspired in recent years, as Home Depot and Lowe's stores have infiltrated small town and suburbia, this was actually 1953. Cosgrave had been working at Sears Roebuck and Co., and his vision was right on. Over the years the big boxes have come and gone while countless independents stores are still alive and thriving, thanks, in part, to PRO Hardware.
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