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ABOUT NATIONWIDE
CUSTOM HOMES
Nationwide Custom Homes is a
leading builder of modular single family homes, commercial
structures, multi-family residences, and remodeling additions
with a reputation for high quality, design flexibility, and
innovative marketing. The company was founded in 1959 and is
located on a 47-acre site in Martinsville, Virginia and a
21-acre site in Arabi, Georgia and production facility located
in Siler City, North Carolina with over 13 acres of land. In
total Nationwide operates five state-of-the-art production
facilities that provide homes for independent Authorized
Builders. Authorized Builders sells, erects, and finishes the
company's products in eleven Southern, Southeastern and Middle
Atlantic states (Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, eastern Tennessee, Maryland, southeast
Pennsylvania, southwest Ohio, eastern Kentucky, Florida) and the
District of Columbia.
HISTORY OF NATIONWIDE
CUSTOM HOMES
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1959 |
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Nationwide
Custom
Homes was founded and began producing and marketing
owner-builder kits throughout the U.S.A. |
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1969 |
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The company
began manufacturing modular homes, eventually expanding
into Southern and middle Atlantic states, and marketing
primarily through a network of authorized builders. |
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1976 |
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First
Owner-Completion Plan is introduced to help homeowners
overcome larger down payment requirements. |
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1992 |
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The
industry's first modular room additions for expansion
remodeling are introduced. |
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1993 |
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First
National Building Systems Week announced by NAHB under
the direction of Building Systems Council Chairman, Fred
Betz, former CEO of company. |
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1994 |
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Nationwide
Custom
Homes named 'Builder of the Year' by the Home Builders
Association of Virginia. |
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1996 |
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A new 68,000
sq. ft., $2.5 million state-of-the-art facility is
opened in Martinsville, in conjunction with the
renovations to the existing plants. |
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1998 |
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Ronald C.
Evans is named President and CEO. |
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1998 |
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Universal
Designs to meet the needs of the physically challenged
are introduced. |
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1999 |
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Nationwide
Custom Homes acquires Arabi Homes in Arabi, GA, and expands
production capacity by almost fifty percent. |
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2000 |
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Nationwide
Custom Homes expands into Florida market with new manufacturing
capacity in Georgia. |
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2001 |
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Nationwide
Custom
Homes reports record sales and revenues for 2000, the
eighth straight year of consecutive increases. |
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2001 |
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Nationwide
Custom
Homes and an authorized builder, Southern Homes, of Mars
Hill, NC, win a first place award in the 2003
'Excellence in Model Home Design' competition sponsored
by the Building Systems Councils of the NAHB and
Building Systems Magazine. This was the fifth
consecutive year, and the eighth time in the last ten
years that one of the company's models captured a first
place . |
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2002 |
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Nationwide
Custom
Homes is acquired by Palm Harbor Homes, a manufactured
housing corporation based in Dallas, Texas. |
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2003 |
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Nationwide
Custom
Homes changes name to Nationwide Custom Homes. |
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2003 |
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Tony Watson
is named as President. |
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2003 |
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Nationwide
Custom Homes ships estimated 30,000th home. |
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2003 |
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Nationwide
Custom Homes expands marketing reach into eastern
Kentucky and southwest Ohio. |
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2004 |
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Nationwide
Custom Homes acquires new production facility in Siler
City, NC. |
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