Home Lumber Acquired By Bishop, CA-Based High Country Lumber
Three years after Milt Johnson, who operated three Home Lumber yards sold them to Stock Building Supply in 2006, Stock planned to shut down the Bishop, CA, location until Johnson’s son Brent got involved. Brent’s involvement helped High Country Lumber acquire Home Lumber.
Brent Johnson described the joy he felt while serving the local and nearby communities with building materials for the last 15 years and has decided that it was time for his retirement to Southern California. He explained his decision to sell Home Lumber’s assets to High Country Lumber, a bigger, yet locally and family-owned business since the 1970s that operates stores in Bishop, CA and nearby Mammoth Lakes, CA. Johnson hopes that the transition of assets to the business, which has been employee owned since 2022, will be easy and that top tier service would continue to be provided to customers.
Visit www.highcountrylumber.com for more.
Oklahoma-Based Apex Lumber Acquired By Star Lumber
CEO of Star Lumber, Patrick Goebel, believes that the Tulsa, OK and Oklahoma City, OK, two pro-oriented building materials contractor yards formerly owned by Apex Lumber, will increase Star Lumber’s capabilities to service professional builders in those markets. These are primary reasons Star acquired Apex. The management and transition will be overseen by 49- year industry veteran, Randy Chippeaux.
Goebel said he is excited to have Apex join the Star Lumber team. The most recent additions to Star Lumber’s Oklahoma expansion are the contractor yards, the truss plant in El Reno, OK and the countertop fabrication plant located in Oklahoma City, OK, that opened in 2022, in addition to the builder flooring showroom in Tulsa that opened in 2023. These add-ons bring the head count for the Oklahoma location to around 100 employees.
A builder flooring showroom has been operated by Star in Oklahoma City, OK, since 2008. Star Lumber reached its 85th year in business in 2024.
To learn more, go to www.starlumber.com.
New Jersey’s Trex Added By Boise Cascade
Distribution of Trex became the sole brand of composite decking and railing that Boise Cascade carries at all locations across the nation.
In addition to expanding their product offerings and building their decking portfolio with Trex Signature, Trex Transcend Lineage and launching a comprehensive collection of Trex-branded deck fasteners, the business also added new railing profiles and materials to create what is said to be the most diverse portfolio of deck railings in the category.
Jeff Strom, executive vice president of building materials distribution for Boise Cascade Co., complimented Trex’s continued improvements and additions, detailing that the railing lineup, which corresponds with their decking portfolio, provides customers with all they could desire.
The latest additions to their railing line include steel, aluminum and composite solutions created to grant builders and homeowners options beyond PVC and wood. They also added specialty glass systems and premium cable. Bret Martz, vice president of North American professional sales for Trex, boasted about their product portfolio, saying that it is robust and strategic, allowing them to compete fiercely in each major decking and railing category. He also mentioned how Trex offers cladding, fascia, lighting options and fasteners that give customers a seamless and untroubled deck construction experience.
Boise Cascade, through 39 distribution locations, serves industrial customers, building material dealers and home improvement centers across the United States while based in Boise, ID. To achieve a networkwide relationship with Trex, Boise has made plans to expand the Trex service area to include Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Southern New York and Long Island.
Strom explained why Boise Cascade is pleased about growing this relationship with Trex, stating that Trex is an industry leader committed to innovating their product lines for the sake of advancing the outdoor living category.
Martz, like Strom, is excited as well and is looking forward to enjoying more of their already long and successful partnership with Boise Cascade, which Boise, as Martz mentioned, has the benefits of a national distributor paired with personalized service and the responsiveness of a regional operation.
See www.bc.com for more details.
Builder’s FirstSource Adds New Notch To Belt
Founded by Maxwell Kleet in 1946, the Long Island, NY-based Kleet Lumber Company, which has been serving contractors, builders and homeowners in the Metro New York and Long Island areas, has been welcomed to the Builder’s FirstSource family.
Builder’s FirstSource mentioned that Kleet Lumber Company is a trusted provider of lumber and building materials such as mouldings, roofing, doors, windows, custom millwork and hardware and that they have earned their reputation.
While the terms of the deal were not revealed, a spokesperson for the national prodealer stated that the acquisition strengthens their market presence in the Northeast and amplifies their ability to service contractors, homeowners and builders in the area.
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Belletetes Begins New Project In Brookline
Belletetes, a 126-year-old chain operating 10 locations across New Hampshire and Massachusetts with over 350 employees serving Northeastern states such as Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and southern Maine, is based in Jaffrey, NH.
The company has begun construction on a hefty expansion project that will include a 20,000 square foot building, which will host a 30,000 square foot drive-thru lumberyard, offices and a lumber counter at its Brookline, NH location. This location was purchased in May of 2024 from Bingham Lumber. On-site, mouldings, custom wood flooring and reclaimed lumber processing will continue. The store may employ around 40 additional workers and is expected to open in September of 2025.
Mike Shea, president of Belletetes plans to advance the present Bingham Lumber location, which is incomparable to the rest of their business model being a complementary business that manufactures custom wood flooring and processes reclaimed lumber.
Visit www.belletetes.com to learn more.
