History
The Coeur d'Alenes Company was first established as J. R. Marks & Co., in Murray, Idaho during the gold rush of 1884 as a supply house for miners. By 1886, there were five stores in North Idaho. In 1889, they became part of Holley, Mason, Marks & Company of Spokane, Washington. In 1892, the five North Idaho stores were spun off by a group (including an original owner) and incorporated under the name of The Coeur d'Alene Hardware Co. In 1913, the major shareholdres of Coeur d'Alene Ironworks put the assets of both companies together, and the resulting Company was incorporated under the name of Coeur d'Alene Hardware and Foundry Company. In 1959, Coeur d'Alene Hardware and Foundry Company changed its name to The Coeur d'Alenes Company.
Cd'A is based in Spokane, Washington and conducts its operations in two businesses located at 3900 E. Broadway in Spokane, Washington. Cd'A Industrial Fabrication generally consists of the custom production of finished metal structures or products (or components thereof) in accordance with a customer's specifications.
The fabrication and processing operations include activities such as cutting, bending, drilling, riveting, welding, and assembling. The items produced by the fabrication and processing operations vary depending upon the nature of a customer's order, but in the past have included such items as baghouses (which trap emissions from factories or other manufacturing facilities), crucibles, potshells and liners for aluminum, magnesium or other metal producers, slurry impellers for industry and structural metal supports for highway signs.
The distribution operations consist of the resale of stock metal materials purchased from mills with further processing or other services, such as cutting, bending, burning, or sawing stock metal materials to a customer's specifications (component parts) or delivery to a customer's location. Metal materials in various types, grades, shapes and sizes are sold by the distribution operations, including beams, bars, plates, sheets, angles, tubes, pipes, gratings, and decorative iron. The distribution operations are referred to in the industry as a steel service center.