Every year, the North American Retail Hardware Association (NRHA), Hardware Retailing magazine and the National Hardware Show® honor the industry’s leaders in the Top Guns program. To take a new spin on this year’s program, the association and the magazine will be recognizing the independent home improvement industry’s “Young Guns” to demonstrate the vitality of the next generation of progressive independent home improvement retailers.

The four honorees for this year’s Young Guns program are Scott Jerousek of Farm and Home Hardware; Diana Newton of Bay Hardware; Jonathan Miller of Miller Hardware; and Matt Woods of Woods Hardware. These next-generation retailers are all taking unconventional approaches to growth and are seizing untapped market potential in creative ways to grow their businesses.

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