Fall 2019 Hardlines Strategies

CUSTOMER PROFILE

Growing With a Community Lumberyard Changes to Accommodate Community Members

S chuyler Home & Building Supply might be the latest name for the business located in Schuyler, Nebraska, but no name can change what the company means for the members of the community.

Owners Art and Tami Lindberg didn’t want to see that come to an end. That’s why they bought the business and took over in November 2017. For Art, hardware and building supplies had been a part of his life well before he became a retailer himself. He had worked at a truss manufacturing facility for 18 years before taking on leadership roles at a big-box hardware location. He then began working at the store that would eventually become Schuyler Home & Building Supply, reflecting his own deep roots in the community he’s called home since the age of 8.

“I’ve been in this community for nearly my whole life, and in all that time, there has always been a hardware store and lumberyard that serves our great town and the towns around us,” Lindberg says. “You won’t find a better place to make a home and build a family. But to do that, you have to have businesses supporting local causes.” Staying Close to Home Lindberg didn’t want to take on ownership of Schuyler Home & Building Supply just to preserve a local business as it was.

The Schuyler Home & Building Supply teamworks to keep the Schuyler, Nebraska, community stocked with hardware items as well as building materials. Owners Art and Tami Lindberg (right, on stairs) took over the business in 2017.

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