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Sale Planned for Rutt Handcrafted Cabinetry

June 11, 2018

Wellborn Cabinet, Inc. has announced the planned sale of Rutt HandcrafteCabinetry, located at 215 Diller Ave, New Holland, Pennsylvania. Wellborn Cabinet will be selling Rutt Handcrafted Cabinetry (Rutt) to Birch Holdings of PA, LLC (Birch), a wholly owned subsidiary of Birch Investment Partners, LLC.

Wellborn Cabinet also owns Cabinetry by Karman, located in Salt Lake City, Utah as well as their own semi-custom Wellborn Cabinet brands located in Ashland, Alabama.

Paul Wellborn, owner of Wellborn Cabinet is excited about this change in ownership as it will provide great opportunity for Rutt Handcrafted Cabinetry to continue to grow in the custom cabinetry market. “The selling of Rutt Cabinetry will give our people more time and energy to focus on our corsemi-custom products, including Karman and all of our Wellborn brands.”

David Roos, general manager of Rutt Handcrafted Cabinetry will remain with the new company in his current position. Additionally, the recent purchase will retain all current employeesof Rutt Handcrafted Cabinetry. Birch has a plan to grow Rutt’s business and build on the outstanding tradition represented by the Rutt name. Rutt has and will continue to provide a wonderful product to their customers for years to come.

Tim Taylor, chairman and CEO of Birch Investment Partners, LLC said, “We are proud to join with Rutt to serve the North American market for fine custom cabinetry. We are grateful to Wellborn for their outstanding stewardship of Rutt and plan to focus on further growing the business to the benefit of Rutt’s community, employees, dealers, customers and shareholders. 

Wellborn Cabinet has successfully owned and operated their semi-custom cabinet business as well as Cabinetry by Karman, where they have proudly serviced the communities of Ashland Alabama and Salt Lake City Utah with thousands of jobs. Wellborn Cabinet provides custom and semi-custom cabinets to the kitchen and bath industry and is excited to continue along the path of pleasing customers for years to come.

The transaction is expected to close in June 2018.