BBC Lighting illuminates the path to success
Hank Albert, owner of BBC Lighting and Supply, 2015 W. St. Paul Ave., has sold lights for over 35 years. His Menomonee Valley showroom is impressive, stocked floor-to-ceiling with fans, chandeliers, lamps and other fixtures. Albert says the business is holding its own against the Internet and the big box home improvement stores.
Originally from Chicago, Albert graduated from East Division (now Riverside) High School and later got into advertising. His business, Badger Advertising, specialized in door-to-door circulars.
When Badger started printing ads for light bulbs, Albert got hooked up with Century Hardware, a light supply wholesaler, which gave him a good deal on light bulbs. Albert's plan was to buy bulbs in mass quantities at 25 cents each and sell in bulk at 50 cents per bulb. Albert sent out light bulb flyers, which he says didn't do so well, but he soon started getting commercial calls in part because of the flyers, including from large furniture stores in the area.
Furniture stores go through a lot of light bulbs, and in 1975 Albert got into commercial lighting. Albert says they still have these stores as customers. When Century Hardware went out of business, Albert took on some of their people, and the business continued to grow.
In 1995, Albert added residential lighting to the business, including the lighting department in Goldmann's at 10th Street and Mitchell.
Albert said things went well for a while, until Goldmann's couldn't give Albert enough space to sell some Tiffany lamps he had acquired. So Albert started selling lights out of the St. Paul Avenue location of his advertising business.
About five years ago, Albert says he quit the advertising business altogether, selling his company to a local newspaper and putting all his attention toward BBC Lighting and Supply.
Albert says BBC ships over 250 packages of lights, ballasts and batteries every day. BBC's sales are of all different prices and quantities, including $300 specialty light bulbs they ship to hospitals. According to Albert, BBC is the largest supplier to nursing homes in the country and they handle every major builder in the Milwaukee area.
BBC sales include ceiling fans and lighting of every imaginable kind. They sell individual lampshades and packages of bulbs for a few dollars and fixtures that range from under $10 up to $25,000.
Albert jokingly describes the BBC's inventory as "very heavy" and wouldn't venture a guess as to the number of fixtures on the showroom floor. "There's something here for everyone, from the big builder to the homeowner," he says.
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