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Ace Hardware Corporation is an American hardware retailers' cooperative based in Oak Brook, Illinois, United States. It is the largest non-grocery retail cooperative in the United States.
The analysis highlights History, Companies and Measurement as prominent areas in the source structure around Ace Hardware.
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TTTA extracted 113 structured relationships around Ace Hardware. Examples in this analysis include Ace Hardware → Area served → International and Ace Hardware → Founded → Chicago, Illinois, U.S. (October 25, 1924; 101 years ago (1924-10-25)). The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ace Hardware | Area served | International | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ace Hardware | Founded | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. (October 25, 1924; 101 years ago (1924-10-25)) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ace Hardware | Founders | Richard Hesse | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ace Hardware | Founders | E. Gunnard Lindquist | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ace Hardware | Founders | Frank Burke | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ace Hardware | Founders | Oscar Fisher | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ace Hardware | Founders | William Stauber | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ace Hardware | Headquarters | Oak Brook, Illinois, US | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ace Hardware | Industry | Hardware stores | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ace Hardware | Key people | John Venhuizen (President and CEO); Steven Burggraf (chairman of the board) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ace Hardware | Net income | US$340.6 million (2022) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ace Hardware | Number of employees | 12,500 (2022) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ace Hardware | Number of locations | Over 5,700 (2022) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ace Hardware | Operating income | US$341 million (2022) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ace Hardware | Revenue | US$9.17 billion (2022) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ace Hardware | Total assets | US$3.491 billion (2022) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ace Hardware | Total equity | US$891.8 million (2022) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ace Hardware | Type | Privately held company retailers' cooperative | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ace Hardware | Website | acehardware.com | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ace Hardware | is a | affiliate of the SM Group of Companies | 0.90 | text |
The concept neighborhoods around Ace Hardware bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Hardware, Stores and Acquired. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
For Ace Hardware, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Ace Hardware with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
TTTA analyzes the structure around Ace Hardware to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Companies & Measurement, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
Source: Wikipedia — Ace Hardware · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout