1991 - Year in Review

Looking back 20 years

Total sales in 1991 were $1,089,305, with orders averaging $90,775 per month. As was often the case, December had the most sales.  That month they sold $174,406 of millwork. October and November were also very good months, with each averaging around $163,500.  These three months helped to make up for a very slow first half of the year.

The contractor with the most purchases in dollar value was Custom Products Construction, then Conquest, Moncure & Dunn (CM&D). The largest order at Beckstoffers that year was for $117,000 to Custom Products for a Law Office. This order was placed in November 1991. The second largest single order was placed by T& P for the Virginia Historical Society’s Battle Abbey expansion. CM&D placed the most orders (18), followed by T&P (17).

The project with the most millwork that year was the Virginia Historical Society -expansion, another Taylor & Parrish job. Total sales for this job were $121,347.
Below is a list of some of the more noteworthy orders that year with the contractor’s name in parenthesis:

o CFB Garden Branch (Woolfolk Construction)
o Christian Children’s Fund ( Taylor & Parrish {T&P})
o Doswell Comb Cycle Factory (Conquest, Moncure & Dunn {CM&D})
o Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia (Taylor & Parrish)
o Black History Museum (Woolfolk Construction)
o John Tyler Community College, Bud Hall (Dixie Constructors)
o St. Mary’s Hospital Education Center (Kjellstrom & Lee)
o Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden (CM&D)
o Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Evans Construction)
o Highland Springs, Douglas Freeman and Mills Godwin Field Houses (AD Whittaker)
o Jepson Hall, University of Richmond (John W. Daniel & Co.)
o Game & Inland Fisheries (Adkins Construction).

1991 saw an 18% drop in millwork orders from the prior year and total sales that year were basically at the same level as those in 1981. For the five years of records that we have from this decade (1990-1994), this was the worst year.

In 1991 total wages were $549,000 and the Mill had about 18 employees, with 11-12 in the shop and an additional 6 office staff.  Both Ron and Bill worked there full-time, with Ron being the company president.