The Menards Guy.

excited TV pitchman who told watchers they could "spare enormous cash" at Wisconsin-based home improvement chain Menards has kicked the bucket. Beam Szmanda was 91.

Szmanda's child, Charles Szmanda, says his dad kicked the bucket Sunday in home hospice care in Antigo, Wisconsin, of congestive heart menards tm  disappointment.

Beam Szmanda was included in publicizing for Eau Claire-based Menard Inc. beginning in 1976 until his retirement in 1998. He was known as "The Menards Guy."

A Milwaukee local and World War II Navy veteran, Szmanda established a telecom school in Wausau. He additionally portrayed a chronicle of the Bible.

Menards said Szmanda's "amicable, excited and carefree identity have established a long term connection" on the family-possessed organization and its clients.

Menards has stores in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

improvement chain Menards invests heavily in selling American-made merchandise.

In its advertisements and stores, the Eau Clair, Wis.- based organization recognizes local fabricated items by appending a logo with an American banner and the words "Made in the USA."

In March, Roland Kenning purchased another Mastercraft brand fiberglass front entryway at the Bolingbrook Menards, fundamentally, he stated, in light of the fact that the entryway was named, in stickers and in signage, as made in the United States.

In any case, when he later stripped off a sticker over the entryway, he was stunned to discover it stepped "Made in Taiwan."

At the point when the Problem Solver composed June 19 about Kenning's knowledge, Menards representative Jeff Abbott said the organization was checking to ensure the majority of its items, including entryways, were appropriately named.

The representative said that Menards, which works in excess of 260 stores crosswise over 13 states, would change the in-store show signs over the entryway Kenning purchased to evacuate the "Made in the USA" logo.

On June 26, the Problem Solver completed a spot check of six Chicago-region Menards. At four of the stores (two in Chicago, one in Melrose Park and another in Hillside) the Mastercraft entryway that Kenning bought was shown with no reference to where it was made.

In any case, at two stores, in Cicero and Hodgkins, the entryway kept on being shown under a Mastercraft sign that said "Made in the USA."

At the point when gotten some information about the two stores June 29, Abbott requested the stores' areas "on the grounds that the request went out to fix this at all stores."