FOXWORTH GALBRAITH

The company con-

1950s; "The arrival of the customer is the most important activity that happens in the life of a lumberyard. Without customers there is no life. Without life there is no lumberyard. Everything hinges on customers."

With total sales of reportedly $455 million in 1999, a 2l%o growth from the previous year, the firm has set its sights on an ambitious goal for its llOth anniversary in 2011 of $1 billion in profitable sales.

The key to the company's success can perhaps best be summed up by quoting a memo from the tinued to grow after WWII and throughout the 1950s, during which Galbraith Steel & Supply Co. was founded to serve independent lumberyards, hardware stores, farmers/ranchers, and the Foxworth-Galbraith yards. By the 1960s, Galbraith Steel offered thousands of hardware items. tools. plumbing, electrical supplies and steel products. The division was renamed Galbraith Wholesale Supply Co. in t992.

In the early 1970s, a desire to

Its founders would be proud.