CanWel Building Materials
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Founded in 1989, CanWel is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia and trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol CWX, and is Canada’s only fully integrated national distributor in the building materials and related products sector.
CanWel operates multiple treating plants and planing facilities in Canada and the United States, and – more... operates distribution centres coast to coast in all major cities and strategic locations across Canada, and near San Francisco and Los Angeles, California. CanWel distributes a wide range of building materials, lumber, and renovation products. In addition, through its CanWel Fibre division, CanWel operates a vertically-integrated forest products company based in Western Canada, operating from British Columbia to Saskatchewan, also servicing the US Pacific Northwest. CanWel owns approximately 136,000 acres of private timberlands, strategic Crown licenses and tenures, log harvesting and trucking operations, several post and pole peeling facilities, and two pressure-treated specialty wood production plants. – less
CanWel operates multiple treating plants and planing facilities in Canada and the United States, and – more... operates distribution centres coast to coast in all major cities and strategic locations across Canada, and near San Francisco and Los Angeles, California. CanWel distributes a wide range of building materials, lumber, and renovation products. In addition, through its CanWel Fibre division, CanWel operates a vertically-integrated forest products company based in Western Canada, operating from British Columbia to Saskatchewan, also servicing the US Pacific Northwest. CanWel owns approximately 136,000 acres of private timberlands, strategic Crown licenses and tenures, log harvesting and trucking operations, several post and pole peeling facilities, and two pressure-treated specialty wood production plants. – less
Headquarters
Vancouver
Employees
1,001 to 5,000
Industry
Revenue
$500m to $1bn (CAD)
Hard work for little pay
Low pay for extremely hard work. Heavy lifting not much training. Very hard on the body in cold conditions. Supervisors try to make the best with what they have management is out of touch
What are people saying about the leadership at CanWel Building Materials?
77%
of employees approve of CEO’s performance
CEO Approval is based on 13 ratings
fast paced hard working
Fast paced, hard working. Some of the employees were enjoyable ,some were tough to work with, management was good at times, but that comes with the business.
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Average
Interview difficulty
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Medium
Interview process length
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About a week