Home Improvement

The opening of a home improvement store in Fort Wayne this spring and the planned opening of another in the spring of 2004 mean one thing - more competition in the local home improvement market.Menards, which has one local home improvement store, is scheduled to open two more and still has plans for another. “All of these stores are looking for growth opportunities,” said Theresa Williams, director of the Indiana University’s Center for Retailing at the…Press: Journal Gazette, The (Fort Wayne, IN)

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When the hammer comes down on the economy, home-improvement center business often gets better. And things will notch up in that retail sector in Central New York in the coming year, good economy or bad.Industry leader The Home Depot is building its fourth store in Onondaga County - in Clay, near an emerging Target store on Route 31 by Wegmans.It will also target Syracuse, and other Top 100 retail markets, with its newest chain, EXPO Design Center, industry analysts say.Home Depot…Press: Post-Standard, The (Syracuse, NY)

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Women are steadying ladders and knocking out walls as they make inroads in what was once considered man territory: home improvement.In fact, women would rather spend their weekend leisure time improving their home than shopping at a mall or cooking, according to a survey conducted last year for Home Depot by Yankelovich Partners.From 1989 to 1993, women held a steady share of 31 percent of total product purchases in the $30.2 billion hardware and home renovation industry. In 1999,…Press: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution

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Home-ownership demographics are attracting home-improvement retailers to the Summit City like bees to honey.Two massive building-supply stores, Home Depot and Menards, have opened in Fort Wayne during the last six months, doubling the city’s number of big-box home-improvement retailers. At least four more big boxes are on the drawing boards for Fort Wayne. But that didn’t deter the owner of a much smaller hardware store from opening last month on Illinois Road. He…Press: News-Sentinel, The (Fort Wayne, IN)

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TV’s best-known home improvement experts are in town this weekend to help you figure out how to spruce up your abode - and best of all, they’ll dispense their advice for free.Home improvement guru Bob Vila headlines the list of experts featured at the How To Fair, an all-day event today and tomorrow at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds. The event is sponsored by Sears Hardware Stores, a subsidiary of Sears, Roebuck and Co., which has a long-standing relationship with…Press: Plain Dealer, The (Cleveland, OH)

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Imagine walking into a business and ordering home-improvement services as if they were toys in a toy store . . . “I’ll take a patio, some of that nice carpeting and, what the heck, let’s install a couple of double-pane windows.” Local businessmen Joe Mendoza and Gregg Nielsen not only imagined it, they have started a business to make it reality.They recently formed Home Improvement Connection in Roseville. And as start-up businesses go, there…Press: The Sacramento Bee

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Tom foolery aside, Home Improvement’s principal contribution to prime-time television is the genre it kept alive. Namely the Mom-Dad-and-the-kids family comedy, with all involved living under the same roof. Formerly the foundation of any self-respecting network’s schedule, they’re now considered outmoded and unlikely to attract a suitable segment of “impressionable” 18- to 49-year-old viewers. Begone, Ozzie and Harriet. And take Leave…Press: The Dallas Morning News

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Tim Allen hasn’t exactly been able to put eight years of “Home Improvement” behind him. Not yet. Allen has chosen to keep his mind off the subject the best way he knows how. Working. “Right now I’m pretty much in the ballgame,” he says from Utah, where he’s making a new movie. “It’s like a fake death. It hasn’t hit me much, but I’ve been…Press: Flint Journal, The (MI)

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‘Home Improvement,’ 8 p.m. Tuesday WXYZ-TV (Channel 7), ABC Tim Taylor in tears? If there’s no crying in baseball, there’s certainly no crying in “Tool Time.” Grunting or manly chortles, perhaps, but no sobbing allowed.Well, maybe just this once.For right here on Stage 4 of the Walt Disney Studios, where “Home Improvement” is about to say good-bye after eight years, Tim…Press: Detroit Free Press (MI)

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This Old House” has a lot to do with those new home improvement centers popping up across the nation.”It’s actually a fad and trend for people to fix their own homes,” said Lora Kellogg, director of advertising and public relations for Scotty’s. “When you look at TV, you have a whole channel dedicated to home improvement (cable’s Home & Garden Television).” “We now have…Press: Daytona Beach News-Journal (FL)

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