2011 Architectural Education Program

Welcome to Associated Building Supply

Associated Building Supply, Inc. exists to be the premier retailer of windows and doors for the discriminating custom homebuilder, homeowner, and architect. We strive, through our synergistic partnership of experienced sales professionals, management, and suppliers, to provide value and quality while translating our customer’s needs, wants, and desires into reality. In the ongoing conduct of our mission, one thing must prevail: Fairness to our customers, vendors, community, and employees.

Founded in 1993 in Oxnard California by Christopher Cole, Associated Building Supply, Inc. has grown to become California’s leading Dealer of high-end window and door products. As a result of our eighteen years of successful "fair" business trade with Builders, Architects, and Homeowners we have expanded our business into several California markets. Our seven high-end window & door showrooms display market specific products and include a customer friendly design so that Builders, Architects, and Homeowners can hold meetings while at the same time examine products. Our employee selection process and sales etiquette are 100% customer satisfaction driven; our professional sales staff have earned over 214 years of sales consulting experience and are no-nonsense factory trained window & door professionals. Our sales consultants take pride in accurately selling and delivering products that turn your dreams into reality while working diligently to achieve your budget requirements.

Associated Building Supply Wins Innovative Dealer of the Year

Associated Building Supply likes to run ahead of the crowd.

When the building industry was booming in 2007, especially in the California market ABS serves, owner Chris Cole recognized that longer-term, sustainable growth would require an outside-the-box revamping of his business model. He was carrying multiple product lines, had varying personalities and sales approaches on his sales force and had to make decisions about the future infrastructure of his Oxnard, Calif.-based business.  "I just decided it was time to either grow or maybe contract this business,” he recalls. “I was at that crossroads, that reflection point."

With about 20 years under his belt in the building materials industry, Cole shut out the noise of the then-frenzied new construction market, which is what his company primarily served, to evaluate how he’d like his company to look down the road. “By nature, I’m a contrarian,” Cole admits. “Wherever the herd goes, I generally go the other direction.”