One counter.Since 1998.
199828 YEARS ON THE COUNTER2026
A family hardware supplier from Valenzuela City. We started with one counter selling hand tools to the machine shops on MacArthur Highway. Today it’s four branches, a warehouse and 14,200 SKUs, and the counter is still the point.
- Origin
- Valenzuela City
- Branches
- 4
- Rating
- Family-run
Tatay Nesto opened a single counter in 1998 with one ledger and a shelf of hand tools. The rule was simple: know the part number, keep it in stock, and price it the same for the suki and the stranger. Twenty-eight years later the shelves are taller and the ledger is a database, but the counter is still the point. Someone who has done the job, who knows where the part is, and who tells you straight when it isn’t there.
— Ernesto “Nesto” Santiago, founder · counter no. 1
1998 → now.
1998First counter
Read the gauges.
Live-ish figures from the counter system. The needles don’t lie, boss.
The warehouse
& the counter.
Everything ships from Valenzuela or the branch nearest you. Here’s what’s behind the screen.
016,200 m² floor · 14 aisles
029 m racking · 2,400 pallet bays
03Picked by 2pm, on a truck by 4
043,410 fixings, every size
05The ladder from 1998
Four rules,
posted since ’98.
Painted on a board behind the first counter. Still there, still enforced.
Ask for
them by name.
62 people across four counters. Here are some of the ones you’ll talk to.
Four branches.
One stock list.
Tara,
visit the counter.
Mon–Sat 8am–6pm at Valenzuela, Quezon City, Mandaue and Davao. Or message us. Salamat sa tiwala, boss.