Roofers Mart, Inc.
RegionalHQ: MO
Distributor of commercial and residential roofing and exterior building products serving the Midwest from St. Louis, Missouri. Branches span Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Kansas and northwest Arkansas.
Regional Roofing Distributors and Local Supply Houses
Roofing material is heavy and freight is expensive, which is why distribution is a regional business at heart. These are the wholesalers that cover part of the country properly rather than all of it thinly — and this is where a metro supply house belongs.
A regional distributor competes on the things a national account cannot standardise: whether the yard takes a short load back without an argument, how quickly a rooftop delivery gets scheduled in the middle of a hail season, whether anyone picks up at six in the morning. Contractors hold strong views about their local supply house for precisely those reasons, and none of it is published anywhere comparable.
Freight also decides availability. Material moves from plant to yard by truck or rail, so the further a product has to travel, the less likely the nearest branch stocks it in the colour a homeowner picked out of a brochure.
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3 companies1 categoryEvery entry taken from the company’s own website
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What is actually listed here today
Three multi-state wholesalers are listed here today. They are genuinely regional rather than national — but they are still sizeable distributors with branch networks. The independent, single-branch and metro-only yards that a contractor actually drives to are not here yet.
The kinds of business this view is for:
- ●Independent single-branch supply houses and metro-only yards.
- ●Regional distributors covering one or a handful of states, including co-op and buying-group members.
- ●Specialist yards — metal only, tile only, low-slope only — that general distributors send people to.
- ●Salvage, seconds and closeout yards, where colour-matching a partial repair on an older roof often ends.
Every entry on this site is taken from the business’s own material and checked on a stated date, which is slower than scraping a map and is the reason this list is short rather than long. If you run a business that belongs here, tell us about your company. Listing is free and is not for sale.
Wholesale Roofing Distributors (3)
Shingles, metal, tile and slate, plus the wider exterior product lines these branches carry.
Richards Building Supply Co.
RegionalHQ: IL
Family-owned wholesale distributor of roofing, siding and other exterior building products, serving contractors across the Midwest, Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Southeast.
Convoy Supply Ltd.
RegionalHQ: BC
Building envelope materials distributor founded in 1972, serving contractors in Canada, the US Pacific Northwest and Maryland.
What territory actually means in distribution
- ●Coverage follows freight lanes, not state lines. A regional distributor serves what it can deliver to economically from its yards, which means its edges rarely match a map anybody has drawn. Two towns the same distance from a branch can get very different answers about delivery.
- ●Which brands a yard carries is a business relationship, and it changes. Manufacturer lines move between distributors, and a yard that stocked a product last season may not this one. Check the current line card with the branch rather than assuming from a specification written a year ago.
- ●A regional yard is often where an unusual product lives. Slate, clay tile, heavy-gauge metal and low-slope systems tend to be handled by distributors close to where they are commonly installed. Regional coverage and specialist stock frequently travel together.
- ●Buying groups blur the line between local and national. Independent yards buy through co-ops and buying groups, which can put national-scale pricing behind a single-branch business. It is a fair thing to ask about when comparing a local quote with a national one.
Manufacturers set the product; this layer decides what is on the shelf
Almost every roofing manufacturer sells through distribution, so a product being made is not the same as a product being available in your market this week. If you are specifying material, read this page next to the manufacturers section, and confirm stock with the branch before the colour goes on a contract.
How to read these listings
Each entry records what a company publishes about itself, on the date it was read. It is not a recommendation, a ranking or a check of anyone’s work, and no company paid to appear here. Where a company publishes a figure about its own size, that figure is quoted as self-reported and linked to the page it came from.
Ownership in this industry changes constantly — distributors merge, manufacturers get acquired, brands get renamed. Where an entry knows about a change, it says so. Before you rely on a detail, follow the link and check it at the source.
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The contractor directory is separate from these industry listings. Browse roofing companies by state and city, then confirm any licence and insurance with the state board before work begins.