Mar 31, 2016. /Lesprom Network/.  During the calendar year of 2015, despite a weak housing market and depressed commodity prices, Carter Lumber saw sales reach a record $1.11 billion, a growth of more than 13% over 2014, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.

Carter Lumber also continued to grow in 2015. The company moved into 3 new markets in the Southeast, as well as opening four kitchen design centers and three building component-manufacturing facilities across its footprint.

Kip Gleckler, Senior Vice President of Field Operations for Carter Lumber, said, “We’re able to get the best people in our industry to come work with us because we’ve built an environment where they are given the freedom and support they need to do their jobs. It is that simple. Hire the best people and let them do what they are best at doing.”

Carter Lumber, the nation’s 5th largest lumber and building materials supplier, is headquartered in Kent, Ohio. The privately held, family-owned company was founded in 1932 and has 142 locations across 12 states in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and the Southeast.