Geo, E. Ream Co. Has Fine Facilities For Serving Trade

"Most dealers report having had a fair volume of business in 1939, and it is our judgment that in the new year ahea<l business will continue at about the same rate with probably an increase in volume about the middle of the year, and with better marketing conditions," said George E. Ream of the Geo. E. Ream Company, Los Angeles, distributors of nationally known building materials, recently to a representative of this paper.

Dealers' Service Theater, with its stage and moving picture equipment, designed to seat comfortably 6O people. Here sales promotional meetings are regularly held with dealers and their customers, as well as architects, in connection with the promotion of the uses of, and developing of markets for the various nationally advertised materials carried by the firm-all in the interests of the dealer.

The warehouse and display rooms are open at all times for the use of dealers' customers. Many dealers take advantage of this part of the service. The warehouse is so arranged that it is, in effect, a large display room, making it possible for dealers to show their customers the various types and sizes of materials with a minimum expenditure of time.

U,nder the merchandising slogan of "Friendly Dealers' Service," which has been well established by many years of

This company's office and warehouse are located at 235 South Alameda Street. The warehouse extends from Alameda Street through to Central Avenue, a distance of 420 feet, and has a total of 55,000 square feet of floor space, approximately an acre and a quarter. The facilities for loading and unloading make the warehouse one of the most upto-date in Los Angeles. Four cars can be unloaded at one time and there is ample space for dealers' trucks to drive in for loading.

The stocks of many of the items carried are the largest and most complete to be found on the Pacific Coast. At the rear of the main offices is the little Friendlv performance, the Geo. E. Ream Company serves the dealer trade with nationally advertised products of merit in clirect carload shipments or out of warehouse. The company has a most efficient organization, some of the members having been associated rvith Mr. Ream for the past 15 years.