One of the five largest hardware retailers in the world is a company that was founded in North Wilkesboro in this year?
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Hardware store Hardware stores (in a number of countries, "shops"), sometimes known as DIY stores, sell household hardware for home improvement including: fasteners, building materials, hand tools, power tools, keys, locks, hinges, chains, plumbing supplies, electrical supplies, cleaning products, housewares, tools, utensils, paint, and lawn and garden products directly to consumers for use at home or for business. Many hardware stores have specialty departments unique to its region or its owner's interests. These departments include hunting and fishing supplies, plants and nursery products, marine and boating supplies, pet food and supplies, farm and ranch supplies including animal feed, swimming pool chemicals, homebrewing supplies and canning supplies. The five largest hardware retailers in the world are The Home Depot, Lowe's (both of the United States), Kingfisher of the United Kingdom, Obi of Germany, and Leroy Merlin of France.
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Lowe's Lowe's Companies, Inc. is a Fortune 500 American company that operates a chain of retail home improvement and appliance stores in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Founded in 1946 in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, the chain has 1,840 stores in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
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Bluegrass companies Bluegrass companies is a non-explosive demolition company headquartered in Greenville, Alabama. It was founded in 1979 by CEO and owner Nicholas Jenkins. The business would comprise the sub-companies: Demolition Technologies, The Machine Shop, Bluegrass Concrete Cutting Inc. and Bluegrassbit. Bluegrass Company have always been headquartered in Greenville, Alabama though now incorporated in Wyoming. The company would become known for the advancement of diamond wire sawing as a technique for non-explosive demolition, later for the creation and patenting of an underwater diamond wire saw, and for assisting the U.S. Department of Energy with various tests as well as nuclear decommissioning.
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Triple Five Group Triple Five Group is a shopping mall owner and operator, hotel operator and real estate company based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. They are well known for their ownership of two of North America's largest malls, West Edmonton Mall in Alberta and Mall of America in Minnesota. The company also owns the American Dream Meadowlands mall to open at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in New Jersey in 2017.
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Worksman Cycles Worksman Cycles is a family-owned American manufacturer of bicycles and tricycles for industrial, commercial and recreational use. The company was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Ozone Park in the borough of Queens in New York City. The company operates an additional factory in Conway, South Carolina. Worksman is the oldest bicycle manufacturer in the USA and has operated its own factory-direct e-commerce store since 2004.
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True Value The True Value Company is an American retailer-owned hardware cooperative with over 4,000 independent retail locations worldwide. Members of the True Value cooperative own their individual stores and operate independently of True Value Company.
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General Bytes General Bytes is a hardware and a software company that produces products related to Bitcoin, Blockchain and Open Source technologies. General Bytes was founded in 2013, is headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic with offices in Bradenton, Florida and is currently one of the largest Bitcoin ATM manufacturers in the world.
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Wilkes Hosiery Mills Wilkes Hosiery Mills is a historic textile mill located near North Wilkesboro, Wilkes County, North Carolina. The brick mill was built in sections between about 1923 and 1967. The 1947 additions and remodeling was carried out by the Charlotte firm Biberstein & Bowles. The textile mill remained in operation until the mid-1960s, after which it was occupied by the Key City Furniture Company until 2003.
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Restoration Hardware RH (formerly Restoration Hardware) is an American home-furnishings company headquartered in Corte Madera, California. The company sells its merchandise through its retail stores, catalog, and online. As of November 1, 2014, the company operated a total of 59 galleries, 6 full line design galleries, and 3 baby & child galleries. The company also has 18 outlet stores in the United States and Canada.
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O'Neal Steel O'Neal Steel, Inc., based in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, is the nation's largest privately owned full-line metals service center. The company was established in 1921 by Kirkman O'Neal, and has evolved from a metal fabricator to a distributor of ferrous and non-ferrous metal products, as well as a source for metal processing and manufacturing of various complex components. Originally focused on serving customers in the Southeastern United States, the company has grown through both expansion and acquisition, and now has more than 80 facilities and offices in North America, Europe, and Asia.
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Adafruit Industries Adafruit Industries is an open-source hardware company based in New York City. It was founded by Limor Fried in 2005, in her Massachusetts Institute of Technology dorm room. The company designs and manufactures a number of electronics products, sells a wide variety of electronics components, tools, and accessories via its online storefront, and produces a number of learning resources, including written tutorials, introductory videos for beginners, and the longest running live video electronics show on the internet. All Adafruit products are manufactured in their 40000 sqfoot factory in SoHo, Manhattan. In 2013, the company took in US$22 million in revenue, and had shipped over a million products in 480,000 orders, and in January 2016, the company accepted its one millionth order.
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WORX WORX (sometimes stylized as Worx) is a line of lawn and garden equipment and power tools owned and distributed by the Positec Tool Corporation, a manufacturing company based in Suzhou, China with North American headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina. The brand is known primarily for its lawn and garden tools like trimmers, lawn mowers, and chainsaws. In North America, WORX products can be found at numerous major retailers including Lowe's, Walmart, The Home Depot, Canadian Tire, and Costco.
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Northside USA Northside USA is an American footwear company based in Marysville, Washington. Northside, a subsidiary of Triple T Trading, was founded in 1985 and sells shoes in retail stores in the United States and China. The company's shoes, marketed towards "light outdoor recreation", are designed in the United States and manufactured in China.
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Wyman-Gordon Wyman-Gordon is a company that designs and manufactures complex metal components. Founded in 1883 as a manufacturer of crankshafts for looms, it has a long history of making forged metal components, particularly for the aerospace industry. Wyman-Gordon is now a subsidiary of Precision Castparts Corp., and is based in Houston, Texas. It has 13 plants in five countries, and employed about 2,500 people as of 2012.
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West 49 West 49 Inc., is a Canadian specialty retailer of fashion and apparel, footwear, accessories, and equipment related to the action sports lifestyle. The retailer operates more than 100 stores across the country and is Canada's largest skateboard and snowboard chain. In 2005, it was ranked the 82nd fastest growing company in Canada. West 49 Inc. operates stores under several names: West 49, Billabong, Element Canada, and Amnesia/Arsenic. On November 4, 2013, YM Inc. was confirmed as the new parent company of the retail chain.
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W. C. Bradley Co. The W.C. Bradley Co. is a company that manufactures home and leisure lifestyle consumer goods, and is headquartered in Columbus, Georgia. Founded in Georgia in 1885 as a “cotton factoring” business, it now manufactures consumer goods, with locations in the United States, Canada, Europe, and China. Its list of subsidiaries includes Char-Broil, LLC, Zebco Brands, Lamplight Farms Incorporated, and W.C. Bradley Co. Real Estate, LLC.
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Go-Mart Go-Mart, Inc. is a convenience store chain based in Gassaway, West Virginia. The company currently operates over 100 stores in most of the state of West Virginia, and border areas of Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio. All Go-Mart stations are unbranded. Go-Mart is the 53rd-largest convenience store chain in the United States.
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Handy Hardware Handy Hardware is a hardware store distribution center serving 1,000 retailers in 9 states in the United States, from Colorado to Florida, and in Mexico and Central America as well. It was founded in 1961 in Houston, Texas.
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J. T. Ferguson Store J. T. Ferguson Store, also known as the Ferguson Store or Parker Electric Co., is a historic commercial building located at Wilkesboro, Wilkes County, North Carolina. It was built in 1887, and is a two-story brick building with a distinctive pressed metal facade. The facade features a combination of classical and late Victorian details.
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David D. Doniger &amp; Company David D. Doniger & Company was a manufacturer of branded sportswear in the United States founded in 1921. It was the largest such US company in the mid-twentieth century, with sales of $50,000,000 in 7,000 outlets in 1956.
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Home Timber and Hardware Home Timber and Hardware (commonly known as "Home" or "Home Hardware") is Australia's third largest retail hardware chain. It is owned by Metcash. Its main competitors are Mitre 10 and Bunnings Warehouse.
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Wilkesboro Wilkesboro may refer to several places in the United States: