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Norco Offers Deolers'One-Stop Service'

Norco Distributing Company, 1329 Fee Drive, Sacramento, recently completed a second big expansion of its three-year-old plant, now considered one of the largest_installations of its type in Northern California. The new aclclition houses a complete plumbing and heating division clesigned to facilitate the handling of a substantial increase in plumbing and heating inventories. The expansion also makes possible the use of the company's main warehouse for moie efficient, centralizecl storage ancl distribution of building materials.

Norco was established in 1953 at 1800 24th Street ir.r Sacramento, but soon outgrew its quarters there as the firm underwetrt a rapid expausion program. Construction of the present'ivarehouse, showroom ancl administrative builcling was begun in the sllmmer of 1956. In September of the same vear. the firm moved into its rlew qtlarters, sitttatecl in a mushrooming industrial tract immecliately adjacer-rt to the Roseville Freeway.

"Since moving into these modern quarters, our company has macle two major expansions," explained Colman Schr,vartz, general manager. "Our expanded plant nor,v offers better than 175,000 square feet of storage area."

Norco now employs seven outside salesmen and operates a large fleet of trucks running regularly scheduled pool truck cleliveries to all points from Stockton arrcl Tracy on the soutl-r to Valleio on the rvest. Medford ar-rcl Grants Pass in the north, ancl ileno and Carson City in the east.

Offering regular "one-stop service," No..o supplies dealers witl-r leading national lines in the builcling materials, plumbing, hardware and electrical fields. Scl-rwartz notes that by keeping pace with the rapicl grorvth of the Northern California area, the company is endeavoring to take care of the building material dealer's every need "rvhen he needs it"-and at competitive prices.