Town & Country Industries

PUTTING EMPLOYEES FIRST T own & Country Indus- tries, a division of ABC Supply, is a wholesale distributor of aluminum and building products serving the specialty contractor. The company was originally founded in 1957, and according to Kurt Lackore, its Managing Director, it began as a small mom-and-pop hardware store. “The original owners were the Hendersons, selling anything from pots and pans, to spline, to screws and bolts.” Lackore joined the company in 1994 with a background in man- agement, coming onboard to help streamline its policies and proce- dures and “to get better at what we did,” he states. “In 1997, we opened in Tampa, which gave us our third location, and in 2001, we AT A GLANCE TOWN & COUNTRY INDUSTRIES WHAT: A wholesale distributor of aluminum and building products WHERE: Fort Lauderdale, Florida WEBSITE: www.tc-alum.com