Our Local Legacy
At Kodiak Building Partners, we value and honor the deep histories our companies bring to the table.

Builders Alliance was founded in 1913 to serve the growing needs of professional builders and customer home builders in Washington with lumber, doors, windows, and millwork, and other home renovation products and materials.

Christensen Lumber was founded in Fremont, Nebraska in 1923 as a small family-owned and operated business serving the region’s home builders and contractors with lumber products.

Zarsky Lumber Company began in 1928 with two farmers named Frank and Charlie Zarsky in Woodsboro, Texas by selling lumber off the back of their pickup truck at a local café.

Gulf & Basco originated under the name “Gulf Plumbing Supply” established in 1937, a family-owned plumbing supply business in Houston, Texas. It later merged with “Builders Appliance & Supply Co (BASCO)” and has since been known as “Gulf & Basco Company.”

Arizona Wholesale Supply Co., now Arizona Appliance and Home, was founded in Phoenix, Arizona in 1944 as a wholesale distributor of appliances and electronics.

Carl’s Building Supply was founded in 1947 to source the area’s need for stocking and delivering lumber and building materials. Since then, Carl’s has expanded to 50,000 square feet of covered storage full of lumber, decking, millwork, tools, roofing, siding, and more.

R&D Thiel started in the suburbs of Chicago and has continued to expand under the name Carpenter Contractors of America, Inc. (CCA) into the booming markets of Florida (1973) and North Carolina (2000).

Ricci Lumber was founded in 1957 by Erminio Ricci in Portsmouth, New Hampshire with the purpose of providing a wide supply of lumber products at one location.

Medallion Industries has been a leading supplier of windows, doors, moving glass wall systems, millwork, and door hardware to professional builders and remodelers in Oregon, Washington, and Northern California since 1971.

Barton Supply was started in 1973 to source concrete materials including rebar fabrication, structural and miscellaneous steel, tilt-ups, and concrete construction accessories for commercial and residential projects in Colorado.

Since its founding in 1975, BMI has supplied custom millwork, doors, hardware, and hollow metal to MidWest home builders and remodelers as well as commercial contractors.

Jenkins Lumber has been providing lumber and building material products and building partnerships in Star Valley, Wyoming since 1975. Over the years, Jenkins has expanded to provide service to the Teton and Sublette Counties as well as eastern Idaho.

Frontier Building Supply was founded in Anacortes, Washington in 1975 to provide the highest quality lumber and sheet goods available from a select group of mills and manufacturers.

Forest Tek/Overseas Lumber has been proudly serving professional builders, custom home builders, contractors, and homeowners since 1982 by supplying high quality lumber, hardware, and building materials to the Florida Keys.

EAL Manufacturing, formerly known as Erect-A-Line, is a Dallas-based manufacturer and fabricator of concrete construction reinforcing products and accessories for distributors located throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and South America.

BARNSCO Michigan was started in 1984 as Barnes & Sweeney when it began operating as a re-steel fabricator and concrete construction materials distributor for commercial projects in the area.

Since 1984, BARNSCO Texas has been supplying concrete contractors with quality construction materials. Their core value is to treat their customers above the industry standard.

Established 1988, Factory Builder Stores is the largest home appliances distributor in Texas. With seven different locations across the state, they supply more than 40 different brands of appliances and cabinets.

Mandere Construction was founded in 1992 and is the premier framing company in the Inland Northwest. From their location in the Idaho, Mandere serves contractors on multi-family and commercial projects of all shapes and sizes.

American Builders Supply is a value-added building material supplier that manufactures, distributes, and installs millwork, windows, components, and lumber to both single family and multi-family home builders in Florida.

Jones Heartz was founded in May 1997 to distribute drywall, steel studs, track, joint treatment, trim, and fasteners to commercial contractors in the Front Range of Colorado.

AO Door was founded in 2001 to locally source commercial doors, frames, and hardware to the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Since then, AO has been supplying premium quality commercial door products with unparalleled customer service.

Specialty Appliance has been Colorado’s premier kitchen appliance retailer for over 15 years with five convenient locations in Denver, Louisville, Fort Collins, Basalt, and Avon.

Northwest Building Components, Inc. (NWBC) was founded in 2004 to supply high quality roof and floor trusses for commercial, residential, and agricultural buildings throughout the Inland Empire region.

Apart of Jones Heartz, Drywall Material Sales was founded in 2005 to provide drywall, insulation, steel framing, stucco, and acoustical ceilings, to residential and commercial contractors in Colorado.

New England Building Supply was started in 2009 to source the need for a quality and service driven business providing building materials to the metro Boston area.

Founded in 2012, Direct Lumber & Door of Colorado is a Denver building material supplier that specializes in providing professional builders with lumber, engineered wood, exterior trim, windows, millwork, hardware, decking, and trusses.

Founded in 2015 and backed by Kodiak, Freedom Materials partners with residential and commercial builders to provide drywall and drywall-related materials to commercial and residential contractors throughout the Mid-Atlantic area.

Premier Building Supply of Kansas City is a full-line lumber yard and manufacturer of building components including roof and floor trusses and interior and exterior wall panels to professional contractor in the area.

Jenkins Drywall and Insulation (JDI) opened in August 2020 to serve the drywall and insulation needs of the commercial and residential contractors and do-it-yourselfers in the Jackson and Star Valley regions.

Freedom Acoustics was founded in 2020 as a greenfield expansion of Freedom Materials to stock and distribute complete ceilings systems in the greater Philadelphia and Baltimore DC Metro markets.