Our History

The business conducted by Hardware Warehouse was established in 1996 in King Williams Town. Its vision was to provide the rural communities of the Eastern Cape with affordable building materials on a cash basis. The first warehouse-style operation quickly expanded to three other stores and from this base the company opened one to two further stores per year in the towns of Alice, Butterworth, Port Alfred, Mdantsane, Ngcobo, Mthatha, Cofimvaba, Lusikisiki, Queenstown and Mtubatuba in Kwa-Zulu Natal. The company has opened its first store in Mpumalanga, which will provide a base for expansion into the north eastern provinces of South Africa and neighbouring territories. Hardware Warehouse was converted into a private company on 9 February 2007 and subsequently to a public company on 10 May 2007.