Central, Your Partner In Home Improvement was a Canadian home improvement retailer. It operated seven locations in Nova Scotia, Canada. The first store opened in Antigonish in 1976 under the name S&D Smith Central Supplies Limited. Since 1988, Central has opened a number of new stores in the big box format, beginning when the New Glasgow store moved into a 70000square feet. former Kmart location. The stores in both Sydney and Antigonish were also replaced with new 50000-3NaN-3. stores in 2001 and 2005 respectively. The former Antigonish store has been converted into the distribution centre for the chain.
From the mid-1990s until 2004, the store was known as Central Home Improvement Warehouse. The stores were renamed to Kent Building Supplies on January 1, 2017.