CBK Hardware: The Next 100 Years
Co Ban Kiat Hardware Inc., anchored on the goal to provide top-quality products to the nation, has been working tirelessly to improve the lives of Filipinos with its brilliant innovations and technological solutions. Since its modest beginnings in 1920, the company has remained committed to this principle, steadily expanding its geographic footprint in the Philippines while positioning itself as one of the biggest local providers of hardware, tools, small appliances, and machinery.
CBK Today and Tomorrow
Exactly 101 years later, CBK Hardware continuously resolves to source value adding products to supply its customers anytime and every time through the consistent acquisition of global brands including Lincoln Electric, Nilfisk, RIDGID, Stanley, Chubbsafes, Yale, Delta, and Baldwin to name a few.
Through the years, CBK Hardware is home to 72 well-known brands of builders hardware and home improvement products. With over 6,000 active SKUs, these valued partners powered opportunities to brought Co Ban Kiat Hardware Inc. to its 100 years and beyond.
The company expands into the B2B Market supplying over 3,500 corporations with innovative products that increase productivity, promote safety, and improve efficacy in various job sites. Meanwhile, in the B2C Market, CBK Hardware develops its product portfolio to keep up with the demands of millennial lifestyle, the new generation of Filipino homeowners.
This 101-year-old company also seeks to grow its digital footprint,, strengthening its presence on different online selling platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Lazada Lazmall, Shopee Mall, and Viber communities. CBK products are also readily available via same day delivery apps like Grabmart, Metromart, and Pick A Roo with just one click.
The Cobankiat Family’s Core Values and Principles
CBK Hardware will not be where it is today without its rich heritage that not only shapes the company but also serves as the guiding light of the family that manages it. .Mr. Johnny Cobankiat, the company President has always believed in never looking back and never being afraid of failure. When one fails, they must know how to stand up and move on. Failure is inevitable but standing up and moving on is strength.
More than ready to face the challenges, the fifth generation of Cobankiats are the rising leaders of the Co Ban Kiat business. They are managing the business efficiently to bring it to an all new level, never been before heights. With their core values and principles, the family is further strengthening the core of the business and expanding to areas that will never ever be thought possible.
As part of its goal to supply the country with world-class hardware solutions, CBK Hardware has ventured in various endeavors to meet the needs of a diverse range of industries. [give examples? – mention partnership with 6,000 general trade roadshop hardware stores in all provinces of the country]. However, its commitment to the Filipino people doesn’t end there.
The fifth generation is also genuinely dedicated to continuously create valuable contributions towards the society and environment. Hundreds of people in different walks of life benefitted from regular Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs of the organization, revolving around hardware materials donations to spread kindness.
CBK Hardware donated much needed builders hardware materials for the improvement of living facilities of non profit organizations; conducting community feeding programs; fulfilling wish-lists of carpenters and tradespeople; and community service in various forms including immersion time to the neglected ones through the help of Department of Social Welfare and Development..
On top of these, CBK Hardware boasts of its dedicated and well-trained people who are committed to provide solutions to the needs of its customers. It is a home of employees who have rendered loyalty of service for many years. dedication, Co Ban Kiat Hardware takes care of the people who takes care of the business day to day.
CBK Hardware’s Key Leader
With the mission to improve the country’s landscape and transfer of knowledge from retiring carpenters and builders, the Cobankiat family gradually transformed CBK Hardware from a little hardware shop in Binondo into one of the Philippines’ most notable businesses.
Over a century later, Johnny Cobankiat, the current President of CBK Hardware Inc. and son of founder Atilano Cobankiat, continues to fulfill his family’s mission as he expands the company’s already impressive portfolio of top-of-the-line home building materials.
Johnny Cobankiat lives by the pillars of efficiency, beauty, and decisiveness, the balance of which are what distinguishes Co Ban Kiat Hardware Inc., Coby’s Design Center, and ACE Hardware from the competition. These names are all centered on improving and further enriching the lives of Filipinos via easy-to-use and comprehend home renovation and hardware products.
Even beyond 100 years, Co Ban Kiat Hardware Inc. (CBKHI) will strive to maintain its status as the “House of Home Improvements,” spearheading the never-ending goal of making high-quality construction materials accessible to every Filipino.
Where to Buy?
For over 100 years, Co Ban Kiat Hardware Inc. is the most trusted distributor of home improvement and hardware items in the Philippines.
Let’s shop wisely. #StayAtHome and order online at your convenience. Visit us in the following sites and enjoy deals, discounts, and more!
CBK Lazmall Flagship Store: https://www.lazada.com.ph/shop/co-ban-kiat-hardware-inc/
CBK Shopee Mall: https://shopee.ph/cbkhardware
Website: https://www.cbkhardware.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cbkhardware/
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/cbkhardware
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Co Ban Kiat Hardware, Inc.
Ground Floor, Cobankiat Building II
231 Juan Luna St. Binondo Manila, Philippines.
Phone +632 8243-1931
Phone +632 8242-6925
Phone +632 8894-6561 & +638-272-931-981
Email [email protected]; [email protected]
Coby’s Design Center
Unit 467 level 4 Shangri-La Plaza
Edsa Corner Shaw Boulevard
Mandaluyong City, Philippines
Phone +632 86364895
About CBK Hardware
For over one hundred years, a family’s surname has become synonymous to the country’s biggest hardware supply company. Co Ban Kiat Hardware Incorporated, of the Cobankiat family has a regular client network of more than 1,500 industrial organizations; 1,600 traditional community hardware stores, and 584 home building specialty chain of stores across Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. This ever-growing conglomerate traces its humble roots to Manila Chinatown, as a pioneer enterprise started by family’s patriarch, Mr. Cobankiat in 1920. Despite the ruins of World War II, the business got back to its feet in 1948, rebuilding a storefront from the very same spot where it was known for three decades.
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While the Filipinos continue to rebuild their lives post war, CBK Hardware saw the opportunity to introduce the retail concept once unheard of in hardware industry. Cobankiat Hardware brought the first DIY business in the Asia. A do it on yourself concept that created Cobankiat hardware in the Philippines. The Hardware Workshop Store is the fruit if this endeavor. CBK Hardware further cemented its legendary distribution channel with the creation of Coby’ Design Center in Edsa Shangi La in 1996, a specialty store that caters to discriminating taste of modern Filipinos.
In 1997, Mr. Johnny Cobankiat, the 4th generation Cobankiat leader, set another milestone for the company when he brought the franchise of Ace Hardware USA to the Philippines, and signed up CBK Hardware as one of its major suppliers. This further expanded into delivering quality world class products nearer to families of Filipino overseas workers in the countryside.
A century’s excellence can quickly pass, and guided by the vision to be the largest network supplier of the biggest global brands in the hardware industry, CBK Hardware resolve to source the best products to supply its customers anytime and every time.
