Appliance Business Thriving for Remoto Area MarketersDDaryl Lubinsky

摘要

SchagrinGas got its start in 1932 soon after Harry Schagrin saw a gas stove in a hardware store window. This spurred his idea to sell propane gas stoves. "They used what is now Suburban Propane for the gas supply," said Harry Schagrin's grandson, Rick Levinson, who now owns SchagrinGas (Middletown, Del.) The company sells propane to about 19,000 customers, but also offers upscale hearth products, propane grills, furnaces, and water heaters, as well as additional propane and natural gas appliances. The business features a showroom of gas appliances at its main office in Middletown. In Hockessin, SchagrinGas operates an appliance store that carries mostly propane and some natural gas appliances.