Castle rings in their 50th Anniversary Year with 5 new Member Locations
Right on the heels of Castle’s most successful year on record for new membership and comparable store sales in 2012, Castle Building Centres Group Ltd. is pleased to announce 5 new independent member locations. Ken Jenkins had this comment, "These new member locations are the first in 2013 to join the Castle dealer network. We are well positioned to continue this diverse growth in all Castle business divisions; Coast to Coast...We welcome you to the Castle family."
Castle Building Centres Wasaga Beach is 2013’s first new Castle Building Centres location in Ontario, located in the popular Wasaga Beach vacation region. Owner Brian MacLean spent the last 28 years cultivating this successful building materials retail location that has evolved into a well known and highly respected home improvement centre for locals and cottage-country weekend warriors. Brian will slowly pass on the reigns to his children, Ben MacLean and Shawna Knight, who will co-manage this new Castle location. "We are very excited to be part of the Castle group and feel like this is a good fit for us. We are looking forward to the coming years of building our Castle business with new and existing customers, suppliers and our new Castle family." said Shawna Knight, Manager.
Castle also welcomes the newest CBS member to Ontario. Costa Building Supplies Limited, located in the Great Toronto Area, was established back in 1983 and is family owned and operated by the Fior family. Costa Building Supplies is one of the largest Gypsum specialty dealers in the Greater Toronto Area/South Western Ontario and also distributes a wide range of building materials and supplies to the residential, commercial, industrial and high-rise markets. Being part of the Castle dealer network will help these new commercial members be more profitable and competitive in their markets.
The newest Castle member to the Quebec region is Quincaillerie Du Centre Inc. located in Melocheville (Beauharnois), QC and owned and operated by Claude Coulombe. This long time retail location near the St Lawrence Seaway is a retail hardware store specializing in residential and industrial hardware. They also operate a sanitary division supplying small businesses with sanitary products.
Castle is also pleased to announce the expansion of O. Coderre et Fils Ltee; a long time Castle member and one of the original Castle locations in the province of Quebec. Hugo Coderre announced last week the acquisition of a second location in Crabtree, QC, which will provide expert home improvement service and supply a full range of lumber, building material, and hardware products to this region. Robert Legault, Business Development Manager Quebec, said, "It is great to see an original Quebec member prosper and grow...this is proof of how the Castle business model is working in the province of Quebec."
Pro Drywall Supplies Inc., the newest commercial member to join the Castle family in Western Canada, is headed up by owner Rod Macintosh in Calgary, AB and provides commercial drywall products and supplies to the residential and commercial building supply market in this region.