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BY PAUL COOK/PHOTO BY RAY STRAWBRIDGE
WINTER 2005 ISSUE

Although the name has a familiar ring, Scott Warren, the Triangle market manager for The Contractor Yard says his company is actually a new business.

Warren says The Contractor Yard was a division of the Lowe’s Corporation until it was acquired by the Strober Organization last February. Strober is a major supplier of high-quality building materials to professional builders and contractors “We’re still in a growth mode,” says Warren.

“The Contractor Yard has 26 locations and we’re looking at an acquisition right now that would add 19 more. In the near future, we will be a $1.2 billion company concentrated in the southeast.

Warren says The Contractor Yard was pleased to help in the 5th Annual NHI Dream Home’s efforts to raise funds to fight blood-related diseases. “We did the sheet rock and some of the interior millwork, provided some interior doors [such as the glass door shown above] and some other odds and ends,” says Warren. “Then when the black-tie gala to celebrate the NHI Dream Home came along, we helped to supply the plywood for the gala’s tent floor.”

Covering the Triangle with locations in Raleigh, Durham and Garner, The Contractor Yard’s main business is with contractors and builders. Warren says the majority of their business comes from their salesmen, who go out on calls to get the orders. “We deliver probably 90 to 95 percent of everything we sell and we ship to the entire Triangle,” says Warren. “We sell lumber, windows, interior and exterior doors, trim and kitchen cabinets; just about everything it takes to build a house.”

Warren says the company plans to soon add some new products and services including special millwork, windows and doors. Plus the company is interested in all the new synthetics that are resistant to rot. “One of the biggest problems in the home building business, especially when you get down near the coast, is rot,” says Warren. “There is a lot of interest in building materials that will not deteriorate.”

One of the trends Warren has seen in the business after almost three decades is that it used to be more of a retail business, but now it has diversified. “Our business changed when Home Depot and Lowe’s came into play,” says Warren. “They went after the homeowner business and we take care of the contractors and do very little with the homeowners. But we don’t turn them away. If they want to come in our store and buy something, that’s great.

“We try to specialize in a niche by taking care of the guy who frames the house, trims the house, sides the house, shingles the house. We are more of the nuts and bolts of building and I see that as a growing business in the Triangle.” ▪

PAUL COOK IS A FREELANCE WRITER FROM CARY.

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