Dealer Profile

The Eighties,” intones Trico Lumber’s Kyle Morgan in his easy-listenin’ Texas drawl, “were not good times. The oil fields went south, plus our biggest employer (here in the northeastern corner

Shortly past the dawn of the last century, Fred Graves, who ran a lumberyard in Wisconsin, got the urge to move to Jonesville, Mi., to help a cousin in the

“Oh, there’s no such thing as tracts here,” explains Robert Ashley, president and CEO of Triple A Building Center, hunkered in the far-far-northern tip of New York State. “Our builders

When his dad, owner of Builders Do it Centers of New Mexico, knew it was time to retire last year, Justin Ellis was handed a lemon: With no cash to

Kellogg Supply, of Manteo, sited on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, is a family-owned operation serving customers since 1946. Bravo. But this is a success story (is it ever!)

Russell Lands Inc. is a land development outfit in Alabama, which owns six home centers and three building supply locations across the state. Sounds to me like Chairman Lands is

This isn’t going to be one of those “beloved, third-generation hometown yard builds on its legacy” stories. Nope. McCabe Lumber, of Loveland, Oh.—20 miles from the Cincinnati metro area and

In May 1951, young Robert Arnold, fresh from college, snagged his first job, working for his stepmom’s boss. That job was selling feed in upstate New York in a small

“A my!” Chad Leibbrandt called to his young wife as they hauled their belongings back to their hometown of Imperial, Ne., after finishing college in Kearney and starting out there

What do you get when you plant a lumber company named Lacrosse (a town on Wisconsin’s bank of the Mississippi) into a community called Louisiana? Outside of muddled geography, you