Our general contractor has been doing a fantastic job on getting the whole project together and making sure things keep progressing at a regular rate. Currently they are 2-3 weeks ahead of schedule and foresee no future delays as of yet.

Here’s some pictures:

Below is the front of the new office area. The corner is mock up area for the new paint scheme.

The following is the same painted area from the east…

Here is a nice view of the outside covered storage area for products…

The following shows the primary dock loading area before the concrete truck apron was poured…

This is a inside view of the main warehouse storage area…

This final picture shows a partial view of the office area.

Here are some of the pictures from the first couple of walls being put into place:

The above shows panel #1 in place and being braced up until the roof structure is in place.
The picture below shows panel #2 being lifted off the warehouse slab.

This last picture shows the crew guiding the 2nd panel into place on to the wall footings.

More pictures and information will be posted as the facility progresses.

Early estimates for the facility ground breaking were slated for June 2009, however due to cooperative weather and permit issuers we were able to get an early start on the building.  Over the next few days the land stripping team will start working on the site and within a couple of weeks building construction will begin.

The General Pacific, Inc team is very excited to be starting on the new facility and looks forward to its completion.  The completion date of the new facility is currently expected to be in the 2nd week of December.

Here is a link to more ceremony pictures.

Fig. 2

Pictured Top:
Marlin Steenblock- Foreman, Perlo McCormack Pacific
Russel Green – CEO, Ruralite
Rick Hall – CEO, General Pacific
Mike Crumbaker – Vice President, General Pacific
Bob Bingham – CFO, General Pacific
Paul Delsman- Project Manager, Perlo McCormack Pacific
Monty Haynes – Project Manager
Dale Poppe – Architect, Group Mackenzie
Robert Campbell – Architect, Group Mackenzie
Tyler Mildren – Project Manager, Perlo McCormack Pacific
(Front) Mike Weatherby – Mayor, City of Fairview

Pictured Figure 2:
Rick Hall – CEO, General Pacific
Mike Crumbaker – Vice President, General Pacific
Bob Bingham – CFO, General Pacific, Inc.

Ipod Winners:

• Kris Hinton, Consumers Power – Entered an online order 25 Thermoweld Connectors.
• Glenda Park, Coos Curry Electric – Entered an online order for Polywater, Joslyn, 3M, Wesanco, and Preformed Line Products Material.
• Daryce Hoffman,City of Cheney – Provided website feedback regarding QuickShip sales history.  This feedback was previously posted here.

Dell Laptop Winners:

• Slater Mitchell, Columbia Basin Electric – Entered laptop drawing at the E&O Conference with business card.

Congratulations to all of the winners.  The items will be mailed out in the next few days.  General Pacific would like to thank everyone who entered into all of the drawings and for all the great feedback we have received on our QuickShip program.

Search Results
Our search results pages were not up to par with user expectations due to speed issues and limitations on search criteria.  GenPac has fixed this issue by rewriting the entire search function of the site which has significantly increased the speed of online searches.  While performing this update we have also expanded the search capabilities to include more fields to search by and also increase the relevancy of the search results.  This has greatly improved the search function on the site and enables users to search by product and vendor information to find what they are looking for.

Sales History
Many of the users have mentioned that loading and searching sales history was also slower than they expected.  We have made some minor changes to this area of the system and now the sales history pages are also loading significantly faster.

Printer Friendly Invoices
A number of users expressed interest in have the ability to obtain printer friendly invoices from sales history and A/R sections of QuickShip.  This has now been added to the system and is available for everyone to use.

Add to Cart Buttons
Multiple QuickShip users expressed concern regarding the “add to cart” buttons on QuickShip no longer being located on the search results pages.  Users had to click on the part number for each item and load the item details page before they could add the item to their shopping cart.  This has been fixed and now the “add to cart” button is once again located on the search results page.

All of these QuickShip changes were originated by users such as yourself who are signed up for GenPac’s QuickShip service.  We appreciate all of your feedback on our online system and hope to receive more of it in the future.  If you would like to submit feedback General Pacific’s website and QuickShip system, please click the “Website Feedback” link located on every page of our website.  All feedback forms submitted are being entered into a drawing to win a free Apple IPod Classic between now and April 26th, 2009.

I would like to ability to order from the search page vs having to go to a second screen.

We went back and looked at the old QuickShip site and found that Glenda was correct and the search results page did have an add to cart button located on it and the item details pages.

So we have gone back and added that button once again to make it easier for users to add items to their cart without having to go to the item details page for every item.  Thank you very much for the feedback Glenda!

Just got my login for quickship and I am very excited about the features.
I can’t tell you the number of times that I get very little info from the crew on something they need, that they say “I think we get it from Gen Pac”. Now I can look back in your order history.

Thank you for the positive FeedBack Darcye..  We have been working hard to provide extra useful features to our customers using QuickShip beyond just online ordering.

More updates will be posted regarding the new General Pacific facility as they become available.