What is True Value?
True Value originally True Value Company is an American retail hardware cooperative that operates over 5,000 independent retail outlets. The cooperative consists of members which further have their own hardware stores which operate as independent stores not owned by the company. The company was established in the year 1948 as Cotter & Company through the combination of four hardware cooperatives and a hardware wholesaler that are named as Coast to Coast Corporation, American Hardware & Supply (ServiStar), Cotter & Company (True Value), and Hibbard Spencer Bartlett & Company. The company have its four rental store identities which are operated independently and are named as Taylor Rental, Party Central, Grand Rental Station and Just Ask Rental. The stores of the company sell various products which includes home furnishing products, home improvement products, building materials, household hardware lumber, hardware tools, paints, plumbing equipments and also provide equipment rental services. The company operates an Identity named as Home & Garden Showplace which serve as the garden center store identity for the True Value Company and is pioneered in selling gardening equipments and tools.