Woodcraft was founded in 1928 as a small supply source for Boston’s North End cabinetmakers. Affiliated with Woodcraft Supply Corp., the Woodcraft franchise program started in 1997. The company has more than 32 locations throughout the United States. The private company is based in Parkersburg, West Virginia.

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Matco Tools began in 1946. In 1979, it began manufacturing, distributing and servicing automotive equipment, tools and toolboxes directly to professional mechanics. Today the company is a subsidiary of Danaher Corp, and now has its own line of over 13,000 different items and tools. There are now over 1,500 franchise locations in the US, Canada, [...]

Joseph Johnson had the idea to create a wrench that could do more than just one simple job. Soon he began to manufacture a type of wrench that had ten different sockets that snapped on to five interchangeable wrench handles. With the help of William Seidemann, he created one tool could do the work of [...]

Ace Hardware Corporation is the second largest dealer-owned cooperative in the United States. It began in 1924, when four hardware store owners by the names of Richard Hesse, E. Gunnard Lindquist, Franke Burke and Oscar Fisher, came together to buy merchandise in bulk in order to save money and maximize their profits. 80 years later, [...]