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Home is the largest investment and pride for homeowner. For as long as Americans have owned homes, they have longed to improve them through remodels, renovation and decoration. The recent success of television shows such as Extreme Makeover and Trading Spaces, Americans are rolling up their sleeves on weekends in an attempt to put forth their best impersonation of Martha Stewart. Compounding America's fascination with home improvement and the recent rise in home ownership, the home improvement retail industry has benefited greatly over the past five year period. Up until the early 1990's the home improvement industry was highly fragmented between hardware stores, paint and wallpaper stores. Intertwined between the independently owned cooperative True-Value and Ace Hardware stores and corporate owned stores such as Benjamin Moore and Sherwin Williams were independently owned and operated.
Most recently, many of these smaller storefronts have been forced to close due to dwindling......

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