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LAHLC PHOTOS - Continued from page 25 Kathy and Bill Fitzgerald, Austin Hardwoods, Santa Ana, Calif. Kit Rhom and Dan Bohannon, Bohannon Lumber Co., Orange, Calif.; and Steve Ondich, Commercial Forest Products, Claremont, Calif., Lumberman of the Year Lynne and Nathan Osborne, Osborne Forest Products, South Pasadena, Calif. Tracey Gaither, and Randy and Mary Porter, Atlas Lumber Co., Chino, Calif. John Stevenson and Linwood Truitt are in charge of kiln-dried lumber sales at Beasley Forest / Thompson Hardwoods Manufacturers of approximately 170 million bd. ft. a year of Southern Hardwood and Cypress lumber products For you, we at Beasley Forest / Thompson Hardwoods: • have sorted and random widths in Red Oak, White Oak, Poplar, Ash, Hickory, Tupelo, Sap Gum and Cypress in 4/4 through 8/4 for export or domestic shipment. • have 1.4 million bd. ft. kiln capacity. • saw Cypress framing timbers and manufacture various tongue-and-groove patterns. • manufacture pallet components (cut stock) and pallet cants for the pallet industry. • saw cross ties and industrial timbers. • manufacture crane mats for the pipeline industry. • offer prompt delivery with company trucks and local trucking companies. Beasley Forest Products, Inc. P.O. Box 788 • Hazlehurst, Georgia 31539 Phone: (912) 375-5174 ext 107 • Fax: (912) 375-9541 E-mail: bfp9541@bellsouth.net Web Address: www.beasleyforestproducts.com SALES: Linwood Truitt Cell: (912) 253-9000 E-mail: linwood.truitt@beasleyforestproducts.com Thompson Hardwoods, Inc. P.O. Box 646 • Hazlehurst, GA 31539 Phone: (912) 375-7703 • Fax: (912) 375-3965 Web Address: www.thompsonhardwoods.com SALES: John Stevenson Cell: (912) 375-8226 E-mail: jstevenson@thompsonhardwoods.com 36 Hardwoods...A Renewable Resource
WESTERN DOVETAIL - Continued from page 33 company who we are.” The Hunters’ goals for the company are continued and expanding development of the computer system, both internally and on the web, and eventually assisting customers with their information management and web presence. His prescription for success, whether for company, customers or both, is internal controls, as close to real-time information as possible. Unwavering goals for the company are drawer innovation and retaining the art of dovetailing in mass-production. “To make the feel of custom furniture, there’s a certain flavor when it’s handmade, with certain care and quality and we refuse to lose that flavor. You can tell the person cutting our product’s five pieces of wood thought about which side to put toward the back and front. Decisions are made, rather than blindly put together on production lines. Those decisions take extra attention, not time, and make the best drawers, hands down,” said Max. To contact Western Dovetail, call 707-556-3683 or go to www.drawer.com. • HARDWOODS SPECIALTY - Continued from page 22 variety of questions until Smalley returned to his car in the airport parking lot. Blanco adds that Smalley moved to every new market into which the company expanded. “He made over 30 moves for the company.” Now that Hardwoods Specialty Products has expanded widely, the company strives to maintain a number of high standards: • Provide excellent service to customers, • Honesty and a high degree of integrity, • Strong sourcing model, ability to buy well, develop supplier programs, • Financial strength: financing to its customers, reliable payment for suppliers, • Well-trained staff, excellent recruiting and internal training program, • Strong relationships in the field and • Outstanding internal culture of the company; people want to be there. Blanco says the company’s reputation is that it has “the best trained sales team in the industry, an in-house focused training program and a long tradition of developing the very best people in the Hardwood industry.” Hardwoods Specialty Products has about 160 employees. All are salaried. “We run a very lean distribution model,” Blanco explained. “The majority of our employees are focused on selling.” The company outsources trucking. Besides Blanco, key people in the company are Rob Brown, chief financial officer; Garry Warner, vice president; Dan Besen, vice president; and the general managers for each of the company’s 10 operat- Please turn the page FEBRUARY/2011 37
