Tuesday, October 21, 2014
CAMPBELL
Anthony Tsikouris started Campbell Hardware at 21 years old at a small facility on McCartney Road. He wanted something small and simple.
But with time, it grew into something a little less simplistic. The business added more products to the shop, and it expanded into two facilities in the quaint strip mall over the past 20 years.
Though Campbell Hardware had no specials or promotions for its 20th anniversary this year, it does have plans to further expand its building physically by the new year.
Tsikouris said the current shop measures 5,700 square feet, taking up about a third of the plaza at 765 McCartney Road. He said the shop’s size works great for the store’s local business, but he said numbers have been increasing in bulk, commercial orders. He said 60 percent of his business now comes from commercial orders.
Commercial business is key to Tsikouris. He said it keeps Campbell Hardware afloat as a mom-and-pop shop on the border of Youngstown and Campbell.
Items from Tsikouris’ shop have been purchased by local contractors who use them on industrial jobs in Washington, Louisiana, Oregon, Michigan, Florida and Connecticut to name a few.
Read more of this small-business success story in Wednesday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.