Frank’s Nursery & Crafts, Inc., one of the nation’s largest retailers of lawn-and-garden, craft, and Christmas merchandise. W ... ith over 250 retail locations in 16 states, in such metropolitan markets as Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, Frank’s has also launched the Frank’s SuperCrafts store, a crafts store concept that it hoped to expand in new and existing markets. In fact, in the mid-1990s, as a subsidiary of the General Host Corporation, Frank’s was seeking to become a truly national retailer with over 400 stores nationwide by the end of the century. Vin Lee holding company Grand Metropolitan acquired the Frank’s Nursery IP registered since 1996. read more