House Hasson Hardware

House-Hasson Hardware Company, founded in 1906, distributes hardware, plumbing, electrical supplies, lawn and garden products, tools, housewares, and building materials to hardware stores, home centers and lumberyards both in the United States and abroad.
Distribution Centers
House Hasson operates 3 distribution centers stocking over 45,000 products and through direct Manufacture drop ships, resells over 100,000 additional items. Two of the distribution centers are located in Knoxville, Tennessee. House Hasson's central warehouse is located at the forks of the Holston River and French Broad River, which forms the Tennessee River. The other distribution center, Southern Kitchen, focuses on Kitchen cabinets and is located in Knoxville on Middlebrook Pike. The third distribution center, Persinger Supply Company, is located in Prichard, West Virginia.
History
House-Hasson Hardware Company was founded in 1906 by C.S. Hasson and Sam House. House-Hasson started with 13 salesmen who came from the old C.M. McClung Company of Knoxville, Tennessee. The company has served dealers in Tennessee and 12 surrounding states and just recently the Caribbean. House-Hasson Hardware was generally known as "Knoxville's Exclusively Wholesale Hardware House."
In the beginning, orders were received and sent by rail. In those days the traveling salesmen who would call on dealers were grouped in two categories: He was either a "Bush Man" or a "Railroad Man". The "Railroad Man" was fortunate in that their territory lay within a reasonable distance of the many towns in which the railroad serviced. With the "Bush Man" it was a different story. He traveled along trails in search of remote settlements, each of which had a general store that dealt in all the necessities.
Today, orders are all electronically received from salesmen who use the Electronic Catalog on their portable hand held and laptop computers to access the 45,000 SKU's currently stocked in 3 warehouses. Customers are also able to place orders using an Electronic Toolbox Catalogue or through the web-site. In 1980 the facility was moved to a major state-of-the-art distribution center in the Forks of the River Industrial Park. Since then, there have been four major expansions and the warehouse is currently over . The most recent addition completed at the end of 2002. In 2007 House Hasson Hardware purchased Persinger Supply Company. On October 2, 2009 House Hasson Hardware purchased a rival hardware distributor Moore-Handley Inc for $14 million after Moore-Handley filed for bankruptcy in July 2009 and was liquidated in September 2009.

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