SAVANNAH’S Business Professionals
From building your house to taking care of everything and everyone who makes it a home, these local and family-owned* business professionals represent a standard of excellence and integrity that is true to Savannah. Here’s your guide to the area’s top business leaders.
Photography by KELLI BOYD, KATHERINE IVES, KAYLEY JOHANSSON, KATIE LOGSDON & KATIE M c GEE
*Family-owned businesses are lovingly noted with this icon. Family-owned BUSINESS
OUR MOTTO
“Everything to Build Anything.” Established in 1927, Guerry Lumber creates for our customers an unmatched supplier experience by providing quality materials, dependable service and competitive prices. Commercial builders and homebuilders will find our location has not changed, but our complex has grown to include more than six acres. True to the T.H. Guerry tradition, the members of our crew are experienced users of the products we sell. This gives you the advantage of choosing the right materials in the right amounts, to be delivered to the right place at the right time. You can count on Guerry Lumber to be a responsible partner. As T.H. Guerry Sr. (Pop) used to say, “Our passion for quality runs very deep for we have turpentine running through our veins!”
WHAT WE DO
Guerry Lumber provides top quality building products including lumber and sheet goods; decking, railing and flooring; doors, windows, shutters and custom millwork. We are also happy to offer estimating and on-site delivery.
OUR STORY
T.H. Guerry Sr. (Pop) founded Guerry Lumber in 1927 on the southwest corner of Victory Drive and Bull Street. T.H. Jr. (Tom) spent his childhood working at the company and, in 1934 at the age of 20, became his father’s business partner. In 1965, Kirby Beam, the son-in-law of Tom Guerry, joined the company to continue the Guerry tradition for personal service, masterful craftsmanship and high-quality products.
In the early days, Pop sold nails and lumber out of a metal shed just big enough for a
desk and a heater. The wood would arrive by rail rough and green. Everything we sold was manufactured at Guerry Lumber, from windows and sashes to turned wood columns and stair parts.
The company’s success and the camaraderie between Pop and his crew are legendary. Pop used to say their strong bond was the result of pure gum turpentine running through their veins. To this day, Guerry Lumber is a group of talented individuals committed to providing customers with quality service and products. Lindy Wheat and her son Will, our fourth and fifth generations, are dedicated to continuing the family’s vision of an unmatched supplier experience.
WHAT SETS US APART
Our management team has more than 90 years of experience in the industry, and our inside and outside sales team is available to help walk-in, DIY and professional builders with their projects, from the foundations to door locks. We also have a full-time estimating department to provide detailed material lists broken down by each stage of the job to ensure on-time and in-full deliveries based on the customers’ needs.
WE SUPPORT
We give back to our community by supporting several area nonprofits, including The Savannah Tree Foundation, The Boy Scouts of America, United Way of the Coastal Empire, Horizons Savannah, the Nancy N. and J.C Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion and Habitat of Humanity.
OUR MISSION
Is to help our clients through what can be a very stressful situation. Whether they are downsizing, moving or liquidating a family member’s estate, the process can be overwhelming. We provide a full-service package, completely clearing the estate while treating each family with compassion and their belongings with respect. Our reputation and professionalism help ensure the best results possible for your family.
WE’RE PROUD OF
Our word of mouth referrals – whether we’ve done a sale for your family, a neighbor or a colleague, we especially enjoy meeting new families in this way.
OUR TEAM
Works together seamlessly to produce a beautifully staged, professionally photographed and individually priced sale. Our staff is our greatest asset, they are friendly, knowledgeable and love assisting shoppers.
WE’RE THANKFUL FOR
Being able to work together at a job we love.
It is a privilege to work with people you love and trust, and we are so grateful to each family who hires us and every shopper who attends a sale for making this life possible.
A SAVANNAH TRADITION
When you attend a Mint Green Tag Sale, you can expect to bring home fabulous treasures
at fair prices. What you might not expect are the new friends you’ll make among all the great people you meet in line!
WE ADMIRE
Other family-owned businesses, especially those who have been in business for many years. We enjoy hearing how they separate work and home life, as we are still trying to achieve that perfect balance. The best advice we’ve received is to appreciate each other’s strengths and to always treat each other with respect. Working together is so rewarding.
OUR STORY
Sandpiper Supply was started in 1977 as a small plumbing supply house and has grown to serve plumbers, homeowners, designers, builders and architects with everything to plumb home and commercial projects.
Founders Chat and Carol Howard had the whole family involved from the get-go. “It was a family affair, working late nights helping Dad and om with paperwork after finishing our homework,” says Chat Howard III, also known around the office as unior andpiper outgrew the old Starland Dairy barn and built another warehouse on the original site on Barnard Street before moving to the current location on Bull Street in 2007. The new location includes a showroom to serve the
growing decorative division that sister Christy llis manages, while hat unior runs the parts and commercial side of the business.
WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE US
Sandpiper has an incredible group of employees who are so knowledgeable and helpful that they really elevate the customer’s experience. Chat and Carol also foster an environment where everyone is treated like family.
OUR AWARDS
Sandpiper has been recognized nationally. Most recently, Christy’s showroom has been noted as an elite “Destination Showroom,” and hat unior was chosen as the Wholesaler magazine’sPerson of the Year during his
presidency of the Southern Wholesaler’s Association. They are most proud, though, of the repeated recognition in Savannah magazine’s “Best of Savannah” readers poll.
WHAT SETS US APART
While the products offered are unique and the service is top-notch, what really sets Sandpiper apart is how they give back to the community. They support many local charities and even started a scholarship exclusively for students in hatham, ffingham and r an counties. Savannah is their home, and they want to see it thrive and succeed.
