Wickes Lumber Sells Final Yards

Bankrupt Wickes Inc., Vernor.t Hills. ll.. is rvindirrg dos tt operatiotts and trying to settle outstanding leasing obligations afier selling the last of its lumberyards to Bradco Supply. Lanoga, Hope Lumber & SuPPIY and Edrvard Hines Lumber (sec Marchuttt, Jult', p.33).

The Wickes Lumbcr ttamc. htlwcver, will continue. sincc Bradco bought the name as "vell as 20 lclcations that rvill retain it. Bradco now operates 132 locations in 2l states with the addition of Wickes 18 yards and twcl component plants in the Northeast.

Bradco also recently added a nerv location in Chandler. Az.

Lanoga Corp. acquired 27 Wickes locations to add to its United Building Centers division. Included rvere 20 lumberyards, five component plants, and tr'vo distribution centers, primarily in the Midrvest, but including a yard in Colorado Springs, Co.

UBC norv has over 200 oPerations in l7 states. "One of the real plusses of the deal is that there are very fer'v overlapping markets, so this rvill add to the grorvth lve've exPerienced recently," noted UBC president Dale

Kukowski.

Hope Lumber'& SuPPlY. Broken Arrow, Ok., bought I I Wickes units. primarily in thc Southeast. but also yards in Longrnont and Platteville. Co.. and tt c()mp()llettl pllttll irt Mountaitr View. Co.

Edward Hines Lumber ttltlk tlver Wickcs' Westfield, In.. yard.

Dixieline Adds Barr Yard

Lanoga Corp. subsidiary Dixieline Lumber Co., San Diego, Ca.. agreed to acquire Barr Lumber Co.'s lumber distribution and truss manufacturing facility in El centro, ca.

The facility, which began operations as part of Dixieline Lumber & Home Centers Aug. 2, also f-eatures a showroom for doors and r'vindorvs, a kitchen cabinet center, and a door and trim shop.

"Over the last f'erv years rve have seen our market share in the Imperial County grorv. This is a market rve currently service from San Diego." noted Dixieline general manager Joe Lnwrence. "Barr's location lvill allorv us to potentiallv service the east side of the Palm Desert/Indio market, approximately one-and-a-half hours to the north."

Barr Lumber was acquired bY Imperial Hardware Co. in the earlY 1990s. Jim Barr and his familY fbunded this single operation and held it until the transf'er ttf ownership to Phil Heald. c.e.tl. of ImPerial Hardlvare.

Port Logistics GrouP Formed

Allied Port TransPorters, Inc., Wilmington, Ca., and Fremont Forest Group Corp., Whittier, Ca., have l'ormed an alliance in transportation logistics to assist customer deliveries frorn the FFGC Forest Products Terminal at Berth T-122 on Terminal Island and to establish a "suPPIY chain" for the Los Angeles Basin.

The move will increase throughout fiom the terminal for breakbulk ind overrveight container shipping' Alllied Port TransPorters, headed by Louis LeGentre with oPerations manager Conrad Aguirre, has Purchased 16 trucks.

Ana Gonzalez has been hired bY FFGC to dispatch trucks and coordinate logistics.

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