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Window World of Western Massachusetts Continues to Grow
BY JOSEPH BEDNAR
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“We want to
be having an
intelligent
conversation with
our customers
when they’re
replacing things,
to not just look at
fixing the thing
that’s broken, but
also improving the
spaces where they
live.”
Growing a company from within is a
philosophy Tim Drost has lived out
for a long time. So is the value of a
family business.
That much was evident as Drost, CEO of
Window World of Western Massachusetts,
sat down recently to talk with BusinessWest
at his Belchertown headquarters alongside
four key members of his team: wife Anna
Drost, son Nick Drost, daughter Grace
Drost, and Lanéa Bushey, the daughter of
Tim’s former business partner.
“I grew up in the business; I had a lot of
family in the home improvement and con-
struction business — everybody was in that
space,” he said, explaining that he and Bob
Bushey worked for many years at a large
home improvement company.
“We had a crew of guys that we worked
with, and we developed installation stan-
dards across the country and Canada for
them,” he noted, before Bob left in 2010 to
launch Window World of Western Massa-
chusetts. “Then, as Lanéa’s dad was getting
older, looking toward retirement, I came on
in 2018 — I took my whole install team with
me — and continued to grow this company.”
Grow is an understatement. From
about $2 million eight years ago, the
enterprise now records between $40
million and $50 million in annual
sales through what are actually four
companies under one umbrella —
Window World of Western Massachu-
setts, Go Green Home Performance,
Hometown Exteriors, and the Kitchen
& Bath Co. — with more expansion
planned in the near future.
Those moves have come about in
different ways. The Kitchen & Bath
Co. arose from the acqusition of the
Kitchen Squad, a company that had
been in business for 40 years.
“We had a great relationship with
them, and their father was looking
to retire. So we brought their team
here. And we just built a new, almost
70,000-square-foot warehouse down
the street. We renovated that whole
property.”
One of the buildings on that site is a fab-
rication shop, the equipment for which was
purchased from a millwork and fabrication
company that had gone out of business. “So
Clockwise from left: Window World of
Western Massachusetts team members
Grace Drost, Nick Drost, Lanéa Bushey,
Anna Drost, and Tim Drost.
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