SANFORD — New England Building Materials has closed its Springvale and Windham retail stores and consolidated operations with the company’s Sanford location on New Dam Road. As well, the company is selling its three Midcoast stores to Hammond Lumber.
NEBM CEO Don Collins said the move will allow the company to focus on the larger markets of eastern Massachusetts and southern Maine.
NEBM was known as Lavalley Lumber until 2009. The company, which began operations as a lumber mill by the Lavalley family 60 years ago and later expanded into the retail field, was acquired in 1999 by United Ventures, LLC, a private holding company. Two years ago, the company purchased three of the former Stock Building Supply operations in Massachusetts. At the same time, the company changed its name to New England Building Materials.
“The Midcoast stores are a good fit for Hammond’s organization,” said Collins in a prepared statement. “We feel that our new model of concentrating on fewer, but substantially larger, delivery centers will allow us to compete more successfully in the southern markets, from Portland to Cape Cod.”
Collins said NEBM is concentrating on the professional building community by delivering from two major sales and distribution centers ”“ in Sanford and in Lakeville, Mass. Springvale and Windham retail stores have been absorbed into the 40-acre Sanford campus, and the store in Norwood, Mass. will become a kitchen design center.
NEBM Vice President of Finance Frank Kelley said the sale of the Midcoast stores and the consolidation of the Springvale and Windham locations to Sanford does not affect the company’s pine mill.
The sale of the retail stores in Damariscotta, Boothbay Harbor and Pemaquid compliments the nine other Hammond Lumber stores in the central Maine region, said that company’s Vice President Mike Hammond.
The majority of the employees at the three Midcoast locations will become employees of Hammond Lumber, while others will be staying with New England Building Materials Sanford location, according to the news release issued by NEBM. The closing is expected to take place on Oct. 21.
— Senior Staff Writer Tammy Wells can be contacted at 324-4444 or twells@journaltribune.com.
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