About Us

MISSION STATEMENT

Lester Properties is a leader in building customer loyalty and successes by combining teamwork, exceptional service, innovation, and professionalism balanced with quality, trust and integrity.

CORPORATE VALUES

• We operate with honesty, integrity and respect.
• We believe in earning a fair and reasonable profit.
• We share time, service and resources within each community we serve.
• We provide training and development to ensure the growth and success of our company.
• We offer service driven response to our customers by exceeding expectations.
• We embrace the importance of employee ownership (ESOP) and accountability.
• Quality provided-Setting the standard by which all others are measured.
• We encourage a fun and innovative workplace that recognize and reward our customers and employees.
• We empower our employees to make decisions that continue improvement critical to our growth.
• We believe in Christian values guiding our decisions.

Over the course of its first 100 years, the company has grown into a multi-faceted operation with the strength to survive two major fires and numerous economic highs and lows. Today, The Lester Group, Inc. consists of :

• Three Building Supply Dealers:

  • Lester Building Supply in Martinsville, VA.

  • The Jim Carpenter Company in Fredericksburg, VA.

  • Taylor Brothers in Lynchburg, VA.

  • Building Supply Manassas in Manassas, VA.

   

• Lester Forestlands, over 18,000 acres of forestlands.
   

• Lester Properties & Lester Development, managers and developers of commercial, retail, residential, and subdivision properties.
   

The Lester Group was established in 1896 by G.T. Lester in Martinsville, Virginia. At the time, The Lester Group was known as the Lester Lumber Company, and consisted of a small sawmill and planning mill, with a small tract of timber land." to a new History menu option underneath Company.

Along with these companies, a "sister" company, Lester Development Corporation, was started in 1976. Lester Development Corporation consists of six shopping centers, numerous free-standing restaurants and commercial/industrial buildings.