East B.y Building Supply Firm Has Steady Growth During Two Decades

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California Builders Supply Company rvas founded in 1927. It was tn ideal time to start a new enterprise-any enterprise. Holv could you lose? Every dav stocks rvere zooming. Prosperity was every\ rhere, and everywhere to stay. Everybody u'as u'orking, everybody was making money, everybody was building, and everybody 'n'as playing the market.

In r-his Utopia, in the midst of this plenty, C.B.S. rvr's established to fill a real need for the distribution of building materials. In vierv of the prospects the start was mcrclest. It was not a shoestring operation, but still a small one in a warehouse on East 12th Street in Oakland.

The new firm prospered. Increasing demand for its services required larger warehouse stocks, and after tu'cr years of becoming more and more cramped, a move u':ts made to larger space at 29th and Ford. Shortly after geiting comfortably settled in these new quarters a fateful day occurred. What had seemed impossible happened'the market rvent over the crest and started tobogganing' The clepression lvas on its unhappy rvay.

There was a lag before its full effect n'as felt on the \\rest Coast, but it arrived in full force. During the learr years that follorved, 'California Builders Supply not onl;u managed to survive, but continued to gro'rv. New lines rvere added and inventories began to climb as long-rangc buying plans went into effe'ct, and again the rvarehousc began to get overfull. In 1937 larger quarters were necessary and the company moved its u'arehouse to its present location at 700-6th Avenue.

At this site there is over 25,000 square feet of function:ti warehouse space rvith its own siding for carload shipments. The floor plan is laid out for the fast handling <if materials by lift truck from the storage piles to the truck

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and car loading platforms. A glazing department and a shop for special mill work are maintained, as well as offices for the rvarehouse records and sales force. A remodcling job rvas d-one during the past year to provide additional space rvhen the executive offices were moved to 4oth Street.

As ;he company continued to grow, tr,vo additional warehouses, each a complete operating unit, were added. The first ,vas established in Sacramento in 1939 and in 1946, tp cornplete the service in north central California, the second rvas installed in Fresno. The most recent move of 1fri5 :rggressive organization was separating the executive oflrces from the individual rvarehouses.

At the beginning of this year Arthur Williamson, former rnanager of the Sacramento warehouse, was tr4nsferrecl in the same capacity to Oakland. Mr. Williamsorr has been rvith the company for several years in other capacities.

Ke'rneth J. Shipp, president of the company' reports that this complete: the present expansion program' but from its pa;t record of success and the influx of eastern industry ancl rhe expected volume of building in the northern pot'tion of the state, it seems only a matter of time until California Builders Supply Company will again be on the movc'

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