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| Company type | Subsidiary |
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| NASDAQ: OSH (2012–13) | |
| Industry | Retail – Home Improvement |
| Founded | San Jose, California (1931) (2020) as Outdoor Supply Hardware |
| Defunct | November 2018 (original company) |
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| Headquarters | San Jose, California, USA |
Number of locations | 99 (Before closure) |
| Products | Home improvement and gardening products |
Number of employees | 5,400[1] |
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Orchard Supply Hardware (OSH) was an American retailer of home improvement and gardening products. Headquartered in San Jose, California, Orchard Supply Hardware had dozens of locations throughout California, with expansions into Oregon and Florida.
After starting as a non-profit cooperative in 1931, the company later turned into a for-profit corporation before it was bought and sold by a number of different corporations during the 1980s. In 1996, the company was acquired by Sears. After a brief period as a public company in 2012–13, the company filed for a Chapter 11 reorganization. In 2013, the bulk of OSH's assets and locations were purchased by the home improvement store chain, Lowe's. For the next five years, the chain was operated as a subsidiary of Lowe's and used for strategic expansion of retail operations. All stores were closed in November 2018.[2][3]
In January 2020, the Memphis-based Central Network Retail Group purchased the OSH brand from Lowe's.[4]
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- ^ OSH.com Retrieved 2018-11-21
- ^ Jody Meacham (January 23, 2020). "Exclusive: New OSH makes deal with old OSH owner Lowe's for hardware brand". Silicon Valley Business Journal. American City Business Journals. Retrieved October 25, 2020.