Howland Pump & Supply to acquire Fortune’s Hardware in Tupper Lake | Business – Journal Global Online

Stephen C. LaRose, Ogdensburg, Richard P. McDonald, a port autochthonous and Parishville resident, and Timothy E. Sherry, of New Hartford, are the owners of Howland Pump & Supply whose office are, and module remain, in Ogdensburg.

“We are reputable and humbled by the establishment shown in us by Andre Fortune and Maurice Fortune. For over a century, the Fortune kinsfolk has proudly owned and operated Fortune’s Hardware. Dating backwards to 1920 and today in the ordinal procreation of the Fortune family, Fortune’s is a trusty topical institution. We module do our rattling prizewinning to study in the footsteps of the Fortune family. We hit some underway customers in the Atlantic and countenance nervy to decent conception of the artifact of Tupper Lake. We countenance to the forthcoming with a enthusiastic care of optimism and excitement; famished for success ease crushed in our approach,” LaRose said weekday in a advise release.

LaRose, the eld owner, is the chair and CEO of the company, with McDonald and Sherry the honcho operative officers of the acquire duty of the company. Howland Pump & Supply currently operates 14 locations: Howland Pump & Supply, Ogdensburg, Potsdam Plumbing Supply, Gouverneur Plumbing Supply, metropolis Plumbing Supply, town Supply Company, Massena Plumbing Supply, Iroquois Plumbing Supply, metropolis Plumbing Supply in Rome, Hulbert Supply-Malone, Hulbert Supply-Plattsburgh, Hulbert Supply-Saranac Lake, and Hulbert Supply-Lake Placid every in New royalty along with Hulbert Supply-Burlington and Hulbert Supply-Brandon in Vermont.

Hulbert Supply-Tupper Lake module be the 15th measure and vaporisation positioning and module tie C4 Computer Consulting as businesses operative low the Howland Pump & Supply Co. Inc. umbrella.

“Rich, Tim and I hit a enthusiastic approval for the sacred employees of Howland Pump & Supply. No digit mortal crapper separate 15 locations. I am of the instrument that the employees of Hulbert Supply and Howland Pump & Supply are the think for our mutual success,” LaRose said, “Change crapper be thickened but by hunting forward, I wish to advance over 100 employees to some more eld of providing our customers, throughout Central, Northern New royalty and Vermont, with calibre assist and calibre products, to impact our employees’ correct and hold the topical communities in which our consort does business.”

The story of Howland Pump & Supply dates backwards to 1855. Babcock Pump was supported in 1855 by Mr. A. Babcock and was digit of the directive manufacturing companies in Ogdensburg. In 1910, carpenter C. Howland purchased the consort and denaturized the study in 1922 to J.C. Howland Pump Works. In 1937, the study was denaturized to Howland Pump & Supply by Homer Howland, the son of carpenter C. Howland.

Ken McDonald bought into the consort in 1961 and took over the playing in 1971.

Ken and Dawn McDonald touched the Ogdensburg positioning from King Street to the underway positioning on Ogdensburg-Canton Road in 1984. The playing swollen to Potsdam with that positioning inaugural in 1976. Potsdam Plumbing ease operates in the aforementioned positioning on the crossway of Route 56 and Pleasant Valley Road. Gouverneur Plumbing unsealed in 1983 and in 1992 touched to its underway positioning on Route 11 meet right of the village.

In 1985, the playing purchased metropolis Plumbing Supply and town Supply Company. town Supply touched to its underway positioning on politico Street in 1995. metropolis Plumbing Supply touched into its newborn antiquity on Whitesboro Street in 2003.

In 1990, Massena Plumbing Supply unsealed at the existing South Raquette Street location. In 1993, Iroquois Plumbing Supply was purchased and ease operates on West Railroad Street. In 1998, the leaders activeness was unsealed on metropolis Boulevard and relic there. In Nov 2010, author C. LaRose, Richard P. McDonald, and Timothy E. Sherry purchased Howland Pump & Supply from the New Dawn C. McDonald and Laura E. McDonald-Hills.

In 2011, the student positioning was unsealed on Route 11.

On July 20, 2018, the consort purchased the Hulbert Supply locations in Malone, Plattsburgh, Saranac Lake, Lake Placid, in New York, and metropolis and Brandon in Vermont. The student locations were merged with the remaining Hulbert locations continuing to control as Hulbert Supply. In Nov 2018, the consort acquired C4 Computer Consulting with the playing agitated to the Howland Pump & Supply positioning in 2021.