Crinkle hardware store receives award

Hassetts Topline Hardware (Crinkle Merchants), the County Offaly winner in the Octabuild Builders Merchant Awards 2009, received its award at a special function in Dublin last week. Hassetts Topline Hardware is a service-oriented company, which strives to improve its high standards by providing highly trained staff with extensive product knowledge. It has traded for 30 years, employs 13 full and part time staff and is the current holder of the Octabuild County Offaly award. This was the 16th Octabuild Builders Awards. Introducing the awards the Chairman of Octabuild Noel Conroy, said that all of the merchants who received awards can consider themselves among the best of Irish builders merchants. He went on to say: 'Our objective in coming together as Octabuild is to promote the benefits of high quality, Irish manufactured products. In the current economic climate we all need to consider how the buying decisions we make impact not only on our own business but on the wider community.'