Growing and getting better Today, Mountain View Building Materials takes pride in providing exceptional customer service and quality building products to both contractor and retail customers – with retail customers compromising a growing percentage of their business. Right now, Joel estimates that roughly 70 per cent of their sales are to developers, builders, and subcontractors, and 30 per cent of their sales are to retail customers, but he says that balance is shifting: “We want to attract more retail business by offering more retail friendly products,” he says. “Being that we’re located outside of Calgary city limits, that side of the business is naturally growing as communities get closer to us. It’s hard to attract retail traffic to come all the way out to us when they’re driving past a lot of our big box store competitors, but as communities spread further and further west and closer and closer to us, we’re noticing an uptick in retail traffic.” JANUARY 2024
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