CAMPBELL BUILDING SUPPLY

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Serving our local communities for nearly fifty years, our story below shares various landmarks along our journey to build an enduring company.

The story starts in 1972 when Val Roy, a local meat cutter, offers to buy Campbell’s Farm & Feed Store in Madison taking ownership on April 2.

1976: Campbell’s Farm & Feed expands into hardware and takes on the True Value brand identity, incorporating as Campbell’s True Value.

1981: Campbell’s True Value builds a new facility and relocates to Main Street in Madison.

1984: Val Roy buys Hilltop Lumber Company of Anson, Maine to compliment the hardware store and to expand his business.

1988: Hilltop Lumber Company becomes known as Campbell’s Building Supply and is relocated to a custom built facility on Route 148 in Madison. Campbell’s Building Supply expands to a 10,000 square foot facility and begins acquiring a fleet of delivery trucks to grow the business.

1989: Campbell’s becomes computerized, signing on with True Value’s nation-wide specialty software company, Triad. This state-of-the-art technology allows Campbell’s to order product electronically as well as track sales by department and class. A revolution in this “mom & pop” hardware business has begun. Campbell’s employs nine Associates.

1993: Just Ask Rental, a division of True Value, is added to Campbell’s Building Supply to increase incremental contractor sales.

1994: Campbell’s begins looking to create diversity in the business and creates a subsidiary known as Val-U-Energy. Val-U-Energy begins with the purchase of a propane gas delivery truck for residential and commercial fuel delivery.

1996: Campbell’s True Value acquires Fairfield True Value of Fairfield.

1998: Val-U-Energy expands through the acquisition of a local heating oil delivery business, Mattingly Oil of Anson, Maine. This one-truck operation doubles the sales of Val-U-Energy and sets the course for a whole new business for Campbell’s. Campbell’s employs twenty-one Associates.

1999: Campbell’s requires additional management resources and brings in a Director of Operations, Brent Burger to oversee global management of the organization. Campbell’s True Value is remodeled and expanded by an additional 3,000 square feet.

2000: Agway, Inc. decides to divest from its company-owned retail stores in the Northeast. Val Roy & Brent Burger create Burger-Roy, Inc, and buy the operations and real estate of three Agway stores in Central Maine. Val & Brent become partners in Campbell’s Companies. Combined companies employ forty-nine Associates.

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