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Vision and Values

Corporate Mission Statement

Lanoga Corporation is engaged in providing products and services to the residential and commercial building industry through a chain of lumberyards, component plants, and distribution centers. By supplying customers with quality products and services at competitive prices, acting as an effective distributor for our vendor base, and affording opportunities for our employees to grow and prosper, Lanoga will provide a return to shareholders comparable to the top performers in the industry while operating in a manner which supports the communities in which we reside and the environment in which we live.

Statement of Values

To accomplish our mission, we endeavor to conduct our business adhering to the following values. While our business and strategies may change, these values should persist.

Ethics

The highest degree of integrity should be the cornerstone of all our relationships with customers, vendors, co-workers, and shareholders. We will be a company where honesty, dependability and the highest level of moral character exists. In every market we serve we should try to be recognized as caring corporate citizens. We will be active in these communities and support social needs in the areas in which we live and do business.

Service

The customer ultimately decides the fate of our business and his/her satisfaction is of paramount importance. We will strive to achieve constant improvement in customer service, including recognizing and being responsive to our customers' changing needs and desires.

Safety
 

Nothing we do is worth causing injury to anyone. Through active leadership and empowerment we will work to create and maintain a consistent culture of Safety throughout the company based upon the premise that every “accident” is preventable. We will take individual and collective responsibility to provide a safe environment for ourselves, our customers, our suppliers and the general public. This will be done by actively promoting, reinforcing and supporting safe behavior and a safe work environment.

Profitability
 

Our future depends on our ability to earn an attractive financial return on our shareholder’s investment. As a privately held company our growth will be fueled by the reinvestment of our profits. This can only occur when our returns are more attractive than alternative shareholder investment opportunities.

Individualism
 

We believe in every individual's dignity, worth, and unique contributions. We endeavor to treat employees with fairness and respect, and encourage them to think and act independently. All employees are expected to develop skills whereby each can achieve personal job satisfaction, growth, and financial reward through the teamwork and contribution of all employees.

Teamwork
 

We support a high degree of individual initiative in our company. At the same time we recognize the strength that comes from teamwork and cooperation. The successes contributed by creative thinking and successful innovations can be multiplied substantially when shared and applied to the entire company. We encourage this sharing of ideas.

Human Resources
 

We strive to have the finest group of employees in our industry. We prefer to promote from within when appropriate. We endeavor to train and develop our people to improve their productivity and to advance within the company. Because excellent employees are one of our most vital and difficult assets to replace, where appropriate we try to assist employees desiring to expand his/her responsibilities. As employees, we will endeavor to contribute to the success of our company in recognition that only a successful organization can provide continued employment for an indefinite time period.

Distributive Authority
 

Managers often have the best information available to make timely decisions in response to their local market and customer needs. For this reason, managers have the authority and responsibility to make all decisions necessary to profitably manage their areas of responsibility, within the bounds of good judgment and company established policies, procedures and guidelines. The manager’s supervisor should always be consulted when exceptions are desired, and must be anytime significant risk is involved.

Environment
 

We endeavor to conduct our business as good corporate citizens with an environmental awareness. Our employees will strive to continually develop and maintain that awareness. We will work to increase the representation of “environmentally friendly” products in our offerings, but will not add those for which such claims can not be reasonably substantiated. We will attempt to take advantage of all waste reduction and recycling opportunities where practical. And we will endeavor to operate our business in a manner that minimizes the environmental impact, mindful of our basic mission statement.