Hardware Pioneer Co Ban Kiat Hardware Still the Country’s leading suppliers of the top-of-the-line hardware materials
There’s only a few hardware you can see in each city in the
metro usually they are the pioneer ones. Co Ban Kiat Hardware Incorporated is
one of them. As one of the pioneer hardware businesses in the Philippines, it has
withstood the test of time.
Mr. Cobankiat, the family patriarch, started it all when he opened
a store in the heart of the Manila Chinatown in the 1920s. It was a thriving
business, then under the name of Co Ban Kiat Hardware and temporarily closed
when World War II happened. Business resumed after World War II but it was not
until after three years later, in 1948, that the company recovered. The new CBK
building was constructed on the very same spot where it stood before the war.
The Co Ban Kiat Hradware Inc. (CBKHI), also known as the “House
of Improvements”, has been the forefront of homebuilding supplies. From selling
nails and iron wires as their main products, CBKHI has evolved and is now
considered as one of the country’s leading suppliers of the top-of-the-line
hardware materials.
Driven by excellence, CBKHI initiated the retail concept for
hardware stores in the country by putting up the Hardware Workshop Store.
To cater to the growing demand of industrial and construction
industries, CBKHI transformed itself by providing corporations with tangible
solutions to address their primary concerns on safety and quality.
This also paved way to the birth of Coby’s Design Center in Edsa
Shangri La in 1996. This specialty store offers a wide array of products that
showcase versatility and Innovativeness to suit the discriminating tastes of
the modern Filipino.
In 1997, Mr. Johnny Cobankiat took the advantage in bringing a
franchise of Ace Hardware USA in the country with Cobankiat Hardware as one of
its suppliers. In time, CBKHI expanded its distribution channel and is now
considered as one of the leading suppliers in all major retail or home
improvement stores in the country.
With its nearly a century’s excellence and guided by its vision
to be the largest network supplier of the biggest brands in the world in the
hardware industry, CBKHI resolve to work at sourcing the best products to
supply its customers anytime and every time.
To know more about our products and services, please visit our
website www.cbkhardware.com or follow our Facebook account www.facebook.com/cbkhardware.
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