American Woodmark

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company_name = American Woodmark Corporation
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foundation = 1980
founder = Bill Brandt, Al Graber, Jeff Holcomb, and Don Mathias
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location = Winchester, Virginia
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industry = furniture
products = cabinets
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company_slogan = America's First Choice in Cabinetry
homepage = www.americanwoodmark.com
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American Woodmark, Kitchen and Bath cabinet manufacturer, headquartered in Winchester, Virginia. The company operates 14 manufacturing facilities, in Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, and 9 builder service centers across the country. American Woodmark trades on NASDAQ under the symbol AMWD.

History

Starting in 1951, Alvin A. Goldhush, a Long Island dentist, made superior quality dental cabinets and created the company Formed Laminates, Inc. in Lindenhurst, N.Y. Goldhush eventually gave up dentistry and devoted his time to the company, now named Raygold Corp. Raygold Corp acquired a wood processing plant in Moorefield, W.V. in 1957. This plant is still in operation today. Boise Cascade, at the time a conglomerate, acquired Raygold and moved the company head office from Long Island to Winchester, Virginia. Boise Cascade changed it business focus from wood products, to paper products. The senior executives of the cabinetry division recognized in 1979 that Boise Cascade would lose interest in the cabinetry division, and they initiated a leveraged buyout. Bill Brandt, Al Graber, Jeff Holcomb, and Don Mathias completed the deal with Boise Cascade and formed American Woodmark Corporation in 1980.

External links

* [http://www.americanwoodmark.com American Woodmark]