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Our History |
 In 1955, Red Brummel sold his house and used the proceeds to buy a hardware store in Grand Rapids’ Godwin Heights neighborhood – within one block of Godwin Hardware’s current location. He made plumbing service calls while his wife, Louise, ran the hardware store.
Red worked with developers as early as 1957, and Godwin has been helping to build West Michigan every since (see our online portfolio). Godwin’s extensive inventory of hard-to-find plumbing parts earned us our slogan. We had been hearing customers say “Godwin’s Got It!” when they came to us as a last resort – so we made it our official slogan in the late 1960s.
Godwin’s current owners – Tim Buist, Bruce DeBoer, Rick Lameyer, and Pete Wierenga – have a combined total of almost 150 years at Godwin. Godwin employs approximately 150 people, with the majority of them being service techs. Almost 30% of Godwin employees have been with the company for at least 20 years. |
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