(BEAUMONT, TX – March 16, 2023) – Coburn Supply Company announces the acquisition of Bay Electric Supply, Inc. property and assets located in League City, TX.

Bay Electric Supply has been a family-owned and operated, full-line electrical supply store since its founding in 1978. This long-standing League City location now joins the more than 60 Coburn’s branches and Showrooms alongside three Coburn’s distribution centers to serve customers across the South.

“The addition of Bay Electric Supply allows Coburn’s to expand our support in the metro-Houston area,” says Patrick Maloney, President of Coburn Supply Company. “We are proud to continue to provide top quality products and excellent service to professional and homeowner customers in East Texas.”

Coburn’s will retain all Bay Electric Supply employees and focus the location on electrical and HVAC products, offering the stellar support, service and solutions that customers expect from Coburn’s.

About Coburn Supply Company Since 1934, Coburn Supply Company has served both residential and commercial consumers by distributing plumbing, electrical, waterworks and HVAC products and services. With more than 60 locations and three centrally-located distribution centers serving Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee, the company also provides product availability for customers everywhere via the website www.coburns.com.

Daily World Article
Opelousas, Louisiana
July 19, 1962

Construction was started Wednesday on a local branch office of Coburn Co. of Lafayette and Beaumont, Tex., a firm dealing in wholesale selling of plumbing and heating and air conditioning supplies, Arthur Maloney (right) of Lafayette, president, and C.L. Balcom of Beaumont, vice-president, look over the site where all the metal building on W. Grolee St. is being erected. The firm will be ready to operate in 30 days. Coburn Co. was founded in 1934 by Albert Coburn of Beaumont. It operates branches in New Iberia, Houma, Baton Rouge, Lake Charles, Port Arthur, Tyler and Beaumont, where the home office is located. Easton Faul of Lafayette will move to Opelousas to become manager of the Opelousas branch. The local firm will be staffed by three employees.

NOTE: The date listed in the article was incorrect. Coburn Supply began in 1934.

LAFAYETTE HISTORY.

COBURN SUPPLY A REAL SUCCESS STORY.

From the "Progress Edition" of the Lafayette Daily Advertiser of December 30th, 1949:

COBURN SUPPLY SHARES PROFITS WITH EMPLOYEES

A real success story - that's the phrase most often used in describing the Coburn Supply Co. Ltd., founded in Beaumont in 1936 and now boasting branches here and in Lake Charles.

According to Albert J. Coburn, president of the company, the Lafayette branch of the wholesale organization is one of the firm's principal stores. Managed by Arthur J. Maloney, also vice-president and treasurer of the firm, the Lafayette branch has left behind it an enviable record of expansion and progress.

Coburn attributes a large measure of his success to a profit-sharing plan, the custom in all Coburn stores. All profits are "split with our employees, which makes our business, wherever operated, a home store. We employ approximately 50 persons," says Coburn.

The firm had its beginning in 1936, when a friendly businessman suggested that Coburn go into business for himself. He followed the advice, and although he had no capital, received enough credit from firms retailing his wholesale products to establish what has grown into a thriving business. - Lafayette Daily Advertiser 12/30/1949.