It is Sager Spuck Industrial Supply Company's mission to provide high quality, name brand parts and supplies to manufacturers, municipalities, wholesale consumers, and industrial corporations of all sizes. We believe that customer satisfaction is our number one priority. To accomplish this, we stress a service oriented environment, in which customers can choose from a wide range of products at reasonable prices.
Sager Spuck is committed to continuously improving our efficiency in the workplace. By actively training and rewarding employees for on the job excellence, we can assure that customers will recieve the highest quality service each and every time. We are the "One-Call-Does-It-All" resource for quality name brand equipment and supplies, and have been since 1923!
I can remember as if it were yesterday. My partner, Howard Sager, went to work for Albany Belting and Supply Co., Inc. in 906. I went to work there in July, 1915. We had a wonderful boss, but he liked and owned race horses that didn't win.
By 1923 Howard and I could see the writing on the wall and quit our jobs to start for ourselves. Howard was then 35 and I was 23. We had everything but money.
We rented a second floor in a building at 26 Beaver Street in Albany for 15.00 per month. We bought a desk for $5.00, stove $5.00, borrowed a typewriter and paid $10.00 for it three months later. We couldn't afford a business phone so we made arrangements with a barber shop across the street to give their number and in return we had our hair cut in his shop. We had two employees at the time.
A fre years later (1925) we were able to take two additional floors in the building and rent increased to $100.00. By this time we had three employees and a truck. In 1927 we rented a building t 366-368 Broadway. This was a big step and our rent jumped to $350.00 per month. We now had 12 employees. By 1929 we were able to borrow enough money together with a first and second mortgage to buy ythe building we were in. We squeezed through the early thirties by all employees and owners taking a cut in salaries and cutting expenses to the bone.
By the late thirties the National Defense Program was under way and things were looking up for Sager Spuck. Iin 1940 we were able to purchase one of the adjoining buildings, 362-364 Broadway. We now had 30 employees. The forties were hectic years, with the war, turnover in employees, priority records, as we had to know about some 200 priority regulations because of the diversified businesses we sold to.
During the war we had to have additional space and purchased a warehouse at 47-49 Liberty Street in Albany.
By 1952 we needed additional space and purchased a building at 67-69 Green Street in Albany. The following year we were able to purchase 356-358 Broadway which now gave us from 356-368 Broadway and warehouses at Liberty Street and Green Street with two parking lots.
In May 1957 Howard Sager passed away after a long illness and I was elected President.
In 1959 we realized by operatring out of three different locations our cost of operating, especially on material handling, was running very high. We were able to purchase a very good building at 438-444 South Pearl Street and bring our operations under one roof. The building is on the Deleware and Hudson Railroad and we have our own siding coming into our building. We also have a building for pipe storage with a cab traveling crane for unloading cars of pipe.
Sager Spuck is still located on South Pearl Street in Albany. We still unload our pipe by crane, though the D&H no longer uses the rails directly behind our building. And though Mr. Sager and Mr. Spuck have passed away, we work hard to carry on the tradition they established over 78 years ago of Service, Quality and the best prices around.
