For more than 90 years, Ace Hardware has been known as the place with the helpful hardware folks in thousands of neighborhoods across America, providing customers with a more personal kind of helpful. Ace Hardware is the largest retailer-owned hardware cooperative in the world with nearly 4,800 hardware stores locally owned and operated across the globe. Its retailers’ stores are located in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and approximately 60 countries. Headquartered in Oak Brook, Ill., Ace and its subsidiaries currently operate 17 distribution centers in the U.S. and also have distribution capabilities in Shanghai, China; Panama City, Panama; and Dubai, United Arab Emirates. In 2015, Ace ranked “Highest in Customer Satisfaction with Home Improvement Retail Stores, Nine Years in a Row,” according to J.D. Power. Ace has received this prestigious recognition every single year that the home improvement category has been surveyed.
