Larson Distributing Company
5925 Broadway
Denver, Colorado 80216
303-296-7253
www.larsondistributing.com
Larson Distributing Co. was originally incorporated in 1922 as James-Nash Motor Co. The original business was distributing of automobiles.Otis Larson joined the company in 1927 and in January 1928 was elected president. The name of the company was changed to Larson-Nash Motors.
The name was again changed in 1943 to the current name, Larson Distributing Co. John L. Larson, Sr., (Jack), joined the business in 1946 and was elected secretary-treasurer in 1947. Jack Larson worked together with his father Otis Larson until January 1959 when cancer took the life of his father. Jack Larson was named president in 1959, after the death of his father, an office he held until March, 1990.
John L. Larson, Jr. began working in the warehouse, for summer employment, in 1977. John joined the company full time, in sales, in 1978. In 1983 he was elected to the Board of Directors and in 1985 elected as Corporate Secretary. John served as Secretary until elected President in March of 1990.
The business has seen many changes in its history, making a break from the automobile distribution with the introduction of appliances in 1937. The company sold both automobiles and appliances until 1942 when Nash discontinued the manufacturing of automobiles. From 1943 to 1956 appliances were the only product line. 1956 brought another major change in the faces of the company when they took on their first lines of inlaid sheet flooring, wall tile and Formica laminate plastic. 1957 saw the introduction of the Barwick carpet line and from there the company became known as a flooring distributor. Ten years later we introduced a private label carpet line, Prestige House. There were numerous changes of product lines in the flooring division until 1978 when the Armstrong vinyl and tile line was introduced. Another change came in 1997 with the exciting introduction of Mannington Mills added to our already strong flooring selections.
1979 brought an additional change when Barwick mills went out of business. However, by that time we had several other carpet lines, including Prestige House and West Point Pepperell, as well as a commercial carpet line.
