Throwback Thursday: In Stock

The July 17, 2006 issue of Home Channel News, the forerunner of HBSDealer, featured Stock Building Supply on the cover – “backed by British parent Wolseley, (Stock) has reorganized for continental growth.”

The lumberyard company was described as a “North American Super Power,” and rightly so. The company operated some 300 units and generating some $5 billion in revenues.

The issue showed CEO Fenton Hord at the company’s Raleigh, North Carolina, distribution center. Since that cover shoot, Stock was purchased by private investors and recently merged with BMC to form BMC-Stock Holdings.

Marking the end of a building supply era, the “Stock” brand and the recently merged organization is being removed to make way for the unified BMC brand.