Throwback Thursday is a weekly feature in which we dip into the archives of the Hardlines Weekly Report.
On April 17, 2000, we reported that Calgary-based GSD Winroc Corp. had bought up another pro distributor in Salt Lake City, Wasatch Building Materials. It was Winroc’s sixth acquisition in the U.S. It also had 19 GSDs in Canada at that time. In 2004, it was sold to Superior Plus LP, a chemical company on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The company, founded by Wayne Jack in Winnipeg in 1971, is now American-owned. Foundation Building Materials of Santa Ana, California, acquired it in 2016.
