Home Timber and Hardware


What a proper blokes’ ad looks like

Brands like Home Timber and Hardware and Repco know how to sell to blokes: cut the crap and market yourself as a “proper” store that knows how things “oughta be”, writes Andrew Tijs.

Lowes hardware just the beginning for Woolworths

Retail giant Woolworths is moving into hardware to take on Wesfarmers’s key business, Bunnings Warehouse, making a takeover bid for Danks Holdings, which operates Home Timber and Hardware, Thrifty-Link and Plants Plus Garden Centres.