Discovery
We track and analyze retail trends through association members so you’ll know before your customers.
Discovering the latest trends for 2,700+ Neighborhood Hardware Retailers
Evaluation
Using the extent of the association, we are able to evaluate hiring methods and retail opportunities.
Reporting
You will always receive the latest information as it pertains to running your business.
4 Steps to Success – The NIHAA Process
1.) Let us know how to help you.
The NIHAA is a trade association providing assistance and support to independently owned and operated hardware, lumber, and building materials retailers.
2.) Our members will share their tips.
While many of our members share common interests, each is also unique in terms of their store size, market area, and wholesaler affiliation. Even with these differences, they all share the common passion of running a successful business in today’s ultra-competitive retail environment. Our members take great pride in serving their customers and their communities. The NIHAA is equally proud to serve them.
3.) You receive a list of proven strategies.
By working together, we believe that our members are able to have a greater impact than what can be accomplished by standing alone. Consider public policy and legislative matters; these can often have an overwhelming impact on your business. As new laws and regulations come up for consideration, the NIHAA is here to protect your interests and, when necessary, to make sure your voice is heard.
4.) You start to share your successful tips with others.
If you are not currently a member, but operate a retail hardware, lumber, or building materials store, I invite you to learn more about the NIHAA and to join our association. Regardless of your wholesaler affiliation, MHA believes we all benefit by helping one another succeed as independent, family-owned retailers.
How NIHAA Was Started
The National Independent Hardware Association of America, NIHAA, was founded by a group of independent hardware retailers that found it helpful to get together and share their successful retail strategies. The association was formed and run by retailers to take this Golden Rule method and spread it nationally.
Every year independent retailers that operate feed stores, paint stores, general stores, construction stores, plumbing stores, electrical stores, lumber yards and hardware stores come across the NIHAA and join us to help grow their business.
The first year is always free to retailers and the insights are usually groundbreaking. We hope you join us today and become a contributing member of our association of independent retailers.
Retailers
- Learn the latest hiring trends on how to find good people.
- Discover product categories that you may have never heard about.
- Find the latest trending products that you can introduce to your customers.
- Ask and answer some of your fellow retailers questions on how to grow their business.
Suppliers
- Submit your ideas on marketing strategies on how to best sell new lines of products.
- Share your new product lines with our independent retailers before a trade show reveal.
- Build relationships with your retail buyers so they can contact you throughout the year and not just when there’s a problem.
- Introduce retailers to new merchandising techniques and strategies that you’ve seen are successful.