Grand Rapids, Michigan based Monsma Marketing Corporation and Hansen Marketing Services announce an exciting and beneficial mutual transaction to combine their companies. By joining forces, the newly united companies will be able to serve our customers better, drive further growth and innovation into the marketplace, and create more value for our employees, customers, and vendor partners. Each company will continue to operate separately as we work to identify strengths, create synergies, and ultimately provide increased value to the markets we serve. Both companies will operate under the Monsma Marketing umbrella.

Monsma and Hansen have been pillars of the building materials distribution industry for decades as preferred partners for our vendors and our customer base in Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio. Each family owned with similar values and cultures, our companies have grown our legacy businesses through strong relationships built on service, reliability, and trust. When discussing aligning together to better serve you, we immediately found a natural fit. We are now ready to move forward together, with more momentum and strength than ever before.

Remaining family owned, our combined strengths enhance virtually every element of our business of delivering quality branded products and unparalleled customer service to the Tri-State area. Our collective companies will now offer:

• A larger portfolio of products to better fill our customers’ needs

• Greater capacity to meet customer requirements in our increased geographical coverage through leveraging our combined sales, marketing, warehousing, and distribution networks

• Truly superior service as we begin to combine our expertise and platforms to further facilitate a best-in-class customer experience

• Greater scale for delivery route optimization

Leadership from both companies see this as a 1+1=3 combination, and a huge win for both teams and the markets we serve.

Remaining customer centric, we are looking forward to a smooth transition over the next few months. We will continue to prioritize customer needs as we harness both companies’ strengths to carry us forward successfully while substantially increasing our value to the combined markets we serve.

The combined companies will be led by Monsma’s Jane Lovell, CEO, and George Brightrall, President. Hansen will operate as a subsidiary of Monsma, with Marty Gillespie and Jim Frensley of Hansen remaining involved as consultants for the company until a successful transition has been achieved.

We are excited to move forward, united, into the future.