Heritage
The history of WOLF reads like a classic American success story. Founded in 1843, Adam Wolf started his enterprise with one store selling lumber and a few dry goods on the banks of the Susquehanna River in rural Pennsylvania. Riding the wave of American prosperity, tempered with the frugality of the era and mixed with a healthy portion of good old-fashioned business sense, Wolf soon developed his business into a family heirloom. As each succeeding generation purchased the business from their forefathers, they applied the new advances of their day, strengthening and growing the business into a hallmark of innovation and service in the building materials industry. That innovation allowed one store to mature into a $200 million enterprise stretching from New England to the Florida border.
Today, the business is guided by the sixth generation of the Wolf family and a group of experienced employee-owners. Honesty and customer satisfaction, principles on which the company was founded, continue to be the cornerstone of WOLF's business, contributing to the organization's status as one of the East Coast's premier sources of quality building products. The company continues to embrace new business technology and performance-enhancing quality systems in their pursuit of total customer satisfaction. From its storybook past to its innovative present, WOLF remains strong and optimistic about the people, products and the strength of the American building industry.
