Ideal Supply Co, Limited
Automobile Service in Woodstock (Oxford)

Ideal Supply Company Ltd. was founded in Listowel in 1926 as a manufacturer of bread molding machines. In 1967, counter sales, office area, John H. MacDonald moved the Listowel operation from the Main and Wallace corner location to it's present site at the north end of town.The new building allowed space for a modern warehouse, Ideal's owner and president, and machine shop facility. Ideal's downtown location, Goderich and Kincardine, Hanover, Mt Forest, car parts and electronic components.By the 1960's Ideal had opened 5 branch stores (Wingham, toys and hardware, was a lively enterprise marketing paint and appliances, in what was formerly the Grand Hotel, ) and had developed an aggressive sales team and professional programs to grow business in the Company's trading area. By the 1940's the company had become a diversified wholesaler and retailer of hardware goods and automotive parts and supplies. Later the company purchased radio components and collaborated with a local furniture producer to assemble and distribute console radios. This investment set the stage for further growth and the following decade saw the Company expand the branch network to include several communities in Central Ontario.An addition to the Listowel warehouse was necessary in the 70's and another was required in the early 90's to keep up with the space needed to stock over 80,000 SKU's that the company now distributes to 10,000 customers, through a branch network of 23 stores from Huntsville in the north, to Woodstock in the south.Ideal's sales organization is divided into 3 groups - the Automotive Division which markets NAPA Auto Parts and the services of the Machine Shops, the Electrical Division, which markets electrical supplies to residential and commercial contractors, and the Industrial Division, which markets all Ideal's product catagories to Industrial customers, and includes the Automation Group, which focuses on industrial automation hardware and software.In recent years Ideal has d