Wolff Bros. Supply, Inc. has a lot to celebrate this year as they open a brand new Marion store and mark a major milestone in the family based company’s history. Employees, customers and community members alike will join together at Wolff Bros. Supply’s new 1878 Bealer Drive location on Thursday, May 14, 2015 from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm for a 50th Anniversary Celebration Event & Open House.
The Marion Area Chamber of Commerce has organized a ribbon cutting ceremony to take place at 4:30 pm; free food and drinks, giveaways, raffles and interactive booths sponsored by Wolff Bros. Supply’s top vendors will precede and follow.
Previously located at 1579 Marion Waldo Road – the old OfficeMax building, Wolff Bros. Supply moved their Marion location in January 2015. Due to their growing business in Marion and the inventory demands to follow, the company outgrew the original location. Wolff Bros. Supply designed the new, larger facility to allow this growth to continue.
While this is the only Open House in the cards for Wolff Bros. Supply this year, it will be the first of five 50th Anniversary Celebration Events that they will host; this event at the new Marion location as well as one at each of their four major distribution centers – Akron, Medina, Sandusky and Wooster. The events will be taking place once a month from May to September 2015. All customers and community members are welcome to attend.
“We are happy to be able to celebrate our 50th Anniversary due to the support of all of our customers over the years – and we are looking forward to the next 50 years,” said George Wolff, Vice President of Sales at Wolff Bros. Supply, Inc. The company accredits its long-time success to their customers’ support. As stated in their Mission Statement, “We must maintain a passion to serve the customer. Without the customer, Wolff Bros. Supply, Inc. will no longer exist. We will give the customer premium service at competitive prices.”
The company has grown significantly since its humble beginning, but Wolff said it remains true that the heart of the company is family. Entering its third generation, Wolff employees and family members proudly remember the company’s unique history.
In the 1950’s Harold and Norman Wolff needed to make a crucial decision: go broke saving the family farm or put their heads together and create a business their families could depend on. The Wolff brothers decided to go into the mechanical trades – operating their new company, Wolff Bros. General Contractors, out of the back of an old truck. Later, expanding into retail sales, they started using the family dairy barn and chicken coop for parts and supplies. By March 1965, the growing business was incorporated as Wolff Bros. Inc. In 1972, when the second generation began graduating from college, Wolff Bros. Supply, Inc. entered into the wholesale business working to supply the local building contractor’s needs.
Wolff Bros. Supply, Inc. now serves as a wholesale distributor of Plumbing, HVAC, Electrical, DataCom, Lighting, Cabinets and Tools for contractors throughout Northern Ohio – operating from 12 locations in Akron, Ashland, Cleveland, Elyria, Findlay, Mansfield, Marion, Medina, Mentor, Sandusky, Toledo and Wooster, with three Kitchen & Bath Showrooms in Akron, Medina, and Sandusky.
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