// REFERENCED ON THE SHOW
Kent Building Supplies
Atlantic Canada's largest home-improvement and building-supply retail chain, operating big-box and warehouse-format stores plus truss plants and distribution centres. It is a division of J.D. Irving, Limited.
📍 Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada✓ 100% first-party verified
// DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW
// ON THE RECORD WITH
Payzant Building Products
Competes with
Primary regional competitor named directly; Payzant argues Home Hardware cooperative buying power exceeds Kent's regional chain scale.
Harold Druken
Trained at
Harold's industrial/commercial sales background before moving to equipment.
// SELECTED PROJECTS
Acquisition of Central Supplies (Nova Scotia)
CompletedAcquirer
Effective December 31, 2016. ~400 Central associates joined Kent. Atlantic Windows operations were excluded from the deal.
Riverview store relocation / new-build (1200 Findlay Blvd)
CompletedOwner / operator
Store at 1200 Findlay Blvd, Riverview NB (relocated from 535 Coverdale Rd). Official grand opening April 27, 2024, per Kent's official Facebook announcement (https://www.facebook.com/kentbuildingsupplies/posts/our-riverview-nb-store-is-celebrating-its-official-grand-opening-this-saturday-a/835388508633671/).
// KEY PEOPLE
// NOTABLE
Kent Building Supplies is a division of J.D. Irving, Limited, headquartered in Saint John, New Brunswick.
SOURCE ▸Per J.D. Irving, Kent operates 48 retail locations across New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland & Labrador with a team of over 3,400 associates, describing itself as 'Atlantic Canada's leading chain of home improvement stores.'
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