May 2, 2023 | DHL Monthly Newsletter, Events, Press
Come celebrate 100 years of serving the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex. Founded as Davis-Johnson Lumber Co. in 1923 by Wirt Davis, a lawyer and noteworthy banker who would later be Chairman of the Board of Republic National Bank, and Walter B. Johnson, who was a...
Apr 4, 2023 | Craftsmanship, DHL Monthly Newsletter, Millwork, Press
Recently, one of our customers had a problem he wasn’t sure how to solve. Justin Bibb of Coats Homes was finishing out the intricate lattice details of a beautifully designed pool cabana and he approached us with some challenges. His carpenters had built a...
Feb 1, 2023 | DHL Monthly Newsletter, Press
Groundhog Day is tomorrow! Based on this storm, you’d think we are in for a long winter, but this is Texas – let’s wait a few days! These last few years have weathered us all quite a bit – surviving a pandemic, broken supply chains, and wild...
Jan 6, 2022 | Cost of Doing Business, DHL Monthly Newsletter, Press
December in the lumber business used to be relaxed and subdued – with traders off for the holidays, snowflakes slowing jobsites, mills taking maintenance downtime, and dealers paring inventories to save on taxes. Well, that didn’t happen in 2020 and 2021 was a “rinse...
Oct 15, 2021 | Building Practices, DHL Monthly Newsletter, Doing Business, Lumber
ACM Acquisition – Iconic Architectural Supply Company Now Part of Davis-Hawn Family Though Davis-Hawn has been in business since 1923, we were basically starting over in 1999 as the “little guy” in town when I naively bought the business from Wirt Davis. ...
Aug 12, 2021 | Cost of Doing Business, Cost/Benefit, DHL Monthly Newsletter, Press
What a fascinating time to watch human nature in the face of unprecedented supply disruptions! Every which way we turn, it seems we are running out of this or lead times are long on that. It’s hard to get reservations at favorite restaurants, flights are canceled,...
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