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Greetings Customers & Friends,

Happy New Year to all of you. Wishing everyone a happy, healthy and prosperous 2025.

As companies grow things change. Parkerville is experiencing some of these changes due to the growth of our Company in recent years. Regulatory pressures weigh heavy on small business owners, according an article published in the Hartford Courant this past Sunday. According to the Met Life and U.S Chamber of Commerce Small Business Index for the 4th quarter of 2024, about half of the owners and decision makers of small business say that handling regulatory compliance costs too much time and money, and that the trend is getting worse. Issues such as payroll, recordkeeping, DOT compliance, licensing, permits, taxes, cybersecurity, and safety (more on safety later) are all vitally important to the success of any business. The larger the company, the more protection is required. 51% of the respondence to this survey state that these requirements make it harder to grow their businesses. Many small businesses rely on subcontracting out some of these services which of course adds to company’s expenses.

All small businesses face similar challenges. Here are some obstacles that we’ve recently encountered, and how Parkerville manages some of these things as we grow:

Greetings Customers & Friends,

I hope everyone had some time to spend with family and friends over the Thanksgiving weekend. Many years ago, I closed up shop for four days over the Thanksgiving weekend to give employees a break to rest and hopefully spend some quality time with people close to them. Also, wanting the time off myself, and as was typical with my habits back then, I didn’t like to ask of others what I wasn’t willing to do myself. Everyone enjoyed the time off. Now, here we are decades later and things have certainly changed. We’re now promoting Black Friday specials. Who would have thought. I hate shopping. 😊

2024 was Parkerville’s best year ever since we began operations in 2006. The corporation was actually formed with the State of Connecticut in December, 2005. In 2024, PWP finalized the purchase of a 65,000 board foot lumber collection in Manchester, VT., finalized the relocation of fixtures, lumber, machinery, forklifts, and a flatbed truck from The Woodery in Lunenberg, MA

Some of the specialty lumber that we sell here at Parkerville can be expensive, so understandably when you shop here or elsewhere, you want to understand what you are buying and how to measure or tally the boards. I hope this brief explanation helps you to understand some of the terminology in the lumber industry, and that it helps you to understand how to tally your lumber.

Jim had recently finished restoring the truck, a 1952 Chevy COE (cab over engine). In its former life it was a dump truck. It now has power brakes, power steering, and power bucket seats from a BMW. Super nice. In the bed of the truck was an old 1960 Wheelhorse tractor that he had also restored that had a very rare 1932 Palmer marine, single cylinder diesel motor in it.

New hours Downtown!

In this month’s From the Board Room, David shares experiences from at the IWF.

News about our wood sale and DeWalt at PWP!

In this month’s From the Board Room, David shares an interesting story about a blog he ran across from someone who happens to be a customer.

In this month’s From the Board Room, David shares an interesting story about a blog he ran across from someone who happens to be a customer.