Tuff Shed Celebrates Company Week 2014

Saurey started the company out of his garage in Rexburg, Idaho, and now Tuff Shed is the biggest shed company in the country.

The company has built 770,000 structures in the last 33 years and now has 42 manufacturing facilities in 31 states. With a distribution network that includes more than 1,000 Home Depot stores, annual revenues are approaching $200 million, and growth has been in the double digits for four years running.

Over the years, Tuff Shed has lived up to its name — striving to make a sturdier shed, especially where it counts. To wit, the company has patents on the eaves, the doors, and other components.

The door is the most important part of a shed. “Unless you put a window on these buildings, the only moving part is the door,” says VP of Marketing Phil Worth. Over time, a basic wood-framed door tends to succumb to the elements. “They warp, they fall out of true, they won’t close properly.”

But Tuff Shed doors are reinforced with steel. “It’s so heavy that we has to design a hinge that was heavier-duty,” says Worth. “It’s absolutely the envy of the market.”

“We get geeked out about our products,” he adds. “There’s a sound our door makes when you slam it that says, ‘That’s heavy-duty and closed tight.'”

Saurey says that 95 percent of Tuff Sheds go into residential backyards, and the sheer size of the products makes for the decentralized network of 42 factories. Notes Saurey: “The biggest thing is logistics.”