Richelieu Hardware closed on its acquisition of U.S. hardware distributor Eveready Hardware. The Montreal-based wood industry supplier's first quarter sales grew both in Canada - up 11.8 percent - and in the U.S., rising 15 percent.

Richelieu officially acquired Eveready Hardware last week and I am so excited about what it means for your and the business we do together.

Eveready Hardware will conduct a drawing for a HEPA-rated Festool dust extractor at the Cabinets & Closets Expo taking place this Thursday and Friday, April 10-11, at the Garden State Exhibit Center in Somerset.

Meet the Long Island City (Queens), NY, company as it celebrates its eighth decade during the 2014 Cabinets & Closets Expo.

The 2013 Cabinets & Closets Conference & Expo rolls into Edison, Feb. 26-March 1.