[5] In November 2022, Lowe's announced it would sell its Canadian operations, including Rona, to Sycamore Partners; the deal was completed the following February.

In September 1939, Rona was founded as "Les Marchands en Quincaillerie" (The Merchants of Hardware), an alliance of independent Montreal-area hardware retailers who sought the buying power to bypass wholesalers and deal directly with manufacturers to get around a monopoly that threatened their ability to access supplies.

[9] M. Dansereau held controlling interest in the company until 1962, when M. Piotte and ten other dealers bought his shares and formed a true dealer co-operative, which they renamed Le Groupe RONA Inc.[8] In 1982, Rona purchased the assets of Botanix.

In 1999, Rona opened a new warehouse adjacent to its headquarters, measuring 654,000 square feet (ca.

In 2001, Rona acquired 51 Revy Home and Garden (based in British Columbia), Revelstoke Home Centres (located in Western Canada) and Lansing Building Supply (based in North York, Ontario since 1951 and merged with Revelstoke in 1998) stores, thus owning many more stores in the Greater Toronto Area.

Rona's common shares are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "RON".

In 2003, Rona acquired Réno-Dépôt Inc. from British Kingfisher plc, including The Building Box stores.

Rona also acquired a majority (51%) stake in Matériaux Coupal Inc as well as Curtis Lumber Building Supplies and Chester Dawe Limited, a company based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

On February 3, 2016, Rona announced that it had accepted an offer to be acquired by Lowe's for CDN$3.2 billion, pending regulatory and shareholder approval.

Lowe's Canada will be operated from Rona's headquarters in Boucherville, but remain under the leadership of its current CEO Sylvain Prud'homme.

[19] Rona is a participant in the voluntary Scanner Price Accuracy Code managed by the Retail Council of Canada.

Faced with chronic under-performance in some markets outside of Quebec, Rona closed six big box stores in 2012, five in Ontario and one in British Columbia.

Barring a few locations in Ontario, almost all of Rona's big-box format stores in the rest of Canada were entirely corporate-owned.

The conversion began with 10 locations in Ontario on July 27, 2023 and was completed in March 2024 with the Lowe's stores in Western Canada.

My Rona Home is a Canadian reality television series, which debuted in October 2009 on Citytv.

[28] Hosted by Elissa Lansdell and sponsored by Rona and The Brick furniture chain, the series pits two Alberta families against each other in a competition to design and build a dream home.