Beacon Roofing Supply Timeline

1928 Beacon Sales Company, Inc. was found in Charlestown, Massachusetts (a suburb of Boston)

1984 Current Beacon Chairman Andrew Logie acquired Beacon Sales Company with other investors; it operated three distribution facilities and generated approximately $16 million in annual revenue.

1997 Code, Hennessy & Simmons III, LP, a Chicago-base private equity fund, and certain members of management, purchased Beacon Sales Company to use it as a platform to acquire leading regional roofing materials distributor through the United States and Canada creating Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc.

1998 Quality Roofing Supply was acquired.

August 23, 1999 Beacon Acquires Canadian Distributor Groupe Bedard Ltd.

September 30, 1999  Exeltherm Supply Inc was acquired and became Beacon Roofing Supply Canada Company

June 15, 2000 Best Distributing Company was acquired

September 2001 Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc. surpasses $224M in revenue

June 8, 2001 The Roof Center and West End Lumber were acquired

September 2001 Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc. surpasses $415M in revenue

September 2002 Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc. surpasses $550M in revenue

September 2003 Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc. surpasses $560M in revenue

October 10, 2003 Beacon appointments Robert R. Buck as its new President and Chief Executive Officer

September 23, 2004 The public sale of Beacon Roofing Supply Inc. (BECN) stock on the NASDAQ Exchange commenced at a price of $13.00 per share.

September 2004 Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc. surpasses $650M in annual revenue

December 16, 2004 JGA Corp was acquired

May 17, 2005 Named one of the leading performers in the Massachusetts IPO class of 2004 by the Boston Globe

September 2005 Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc. surpasses $850M in annual revenue

October 14, 2005 Shelter Distribution, Inc. was acquired and effectively doubles the service area of the company nationwide and adds 50 branches to the company.

December 15, 2005 Beacon Roofing Supply had a secondary offering of 2 million shares of stock.

January 2006 Beacon Roofing Supply was ranked 23rd on the Boston Business Journal's list of the Area's Best Performing Stocks (based on 2005 stock performance starting at $19.86 on 12.30.04 and ending at $28.73 12.30.05).

January 12, 2006 Pacific Supply was acquired

May 2006 Beacon Roofing Supply is ranked #10 in the country among the top 100 residential construction suppliers in the country by Pro Sales magazine

May 31, 2006 Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc. had a three-for-two stock split

August 25, 2006 Roof Depot was acquired

August 30, 2006 RSM Supply was acquired

September 25, 2006 Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc. is featured by Business Week magazine as a member of the NASDAQ Global Select Market.

September 2006 Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc. surpasses $1.4B in annual revenue

April 2007 North Coast Commercial Roofing Systems was acquired.