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Article: VBM 100+ Companies: Britton Lumber
- Article from:
- Vermont Business Magazine
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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CopyrightCopyright Boutin-McQuiston, Inc. Jan 2009. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Doug Britton, who now guides the progress of the 62-year-old Britton Lumber Company, Inc. of Fairlee, thought long and hard before summarizing what the company does.
"We are a manufacturer selling to wholesalers around the US," he said, "and we are a wholesaler selling to retailers around the Northeast." Another way of putting it might be that they keep eight company tractor-trailers busy running the area's roads, and manage to find employment for about 60 people in the two divisions they have evolved.
All this becomes clearer after a look at Britton's history, which is detailed on the company website www.brittonlumber.com.
Founded in 1946 in Hartland, they operated both portable and ...