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‘About Us, How it all started’

The founder of Stoffers Bouwbedrijf was Hilbrand Stoffers. He was born on February 27th. in 1914 in Tynaarloo. Hilbrand was the third son in the marriage between Hilbrand Stoffers (his father) and Annechien Koops.
Around 1920 they lived in an hamlet in the neighborhood of the town of Assen. Today Assen is famous for the Dutch TT held on one of the most impressive and savest Motorbike Grandprix circuits of the World.

Hilbrand first went to the primary school and after that the technical instruction school where he learned for the trade of carpenter.

At the age of 15, Hilbrand got employed as yougest servant at building constructor Derk Hof in the hamlet Ekehaar. Fascinated by building houses, Hilbrand builded at the age of 16 a new farmhouse together with his father for the Stoffers family.

On June 27th. 1936, Hilbrand Stoffers maried Klazina Jansen at the age of 22.

Snoeijing and Stoffers Building Constructors
In 1945, just after World War II , Hilbrand got the oportunity to pass the examination for Building Constructor. After this he started together with his mate Hendrik Snoeijing : Snoeijing and Stoffers Building Constructors.
This went extremely well, Hilbrand did the constructions and Snoeijing did the administration.
During the years of World War II until 1950, Hip, as he was called by every one, lived together with his wife and his four sons (Hilbrand, Thijs, Jans ans Evert) in the hamlet of Hooghalen. The sons growth older, the young Hilbrand was about to leave school, Thijs was on level 6 and wanted to learn also the profession of carpenter.
After a good talk with Snoeijng it was decided to split the company in order to become self supporting.

Establishment of Bouwbedrijf Stoffers
In 1950 Bouwbedrijf Stoffers was established. The premises located on the Hoofdstraat 31 (main street) in Ekehaar was bought where Hilbrand ones started as young servant at the building contracter Derk Hof.
The regular customers increased and the boys Hilbrand, Thijs and later on Evert joined the company.

Moving to Kampweg 1

Due to the growth of the building company, the premises with internal workroom en outside the storage location of wood and building materials became too small.

Therefor it was decided to move the company in Ekehaar to Kampweg 1. There was quitte an amount of free building ground available at the rear side of the new builded house of Thijs Stoffers. Enough to start a new work room with belonging storage location for building materials.

Work room destroyed by fire!
In 1985 there was an abrupt ending of the energetic growth of the company due to a fire that destroyed our whole work room.

All wood working machinery and hand tool instruments became unusable at once.

Together with our employees we worked hard to forget this tragedy en realized the rising of a complete renewed work room.

Stoffers Bouwbedrijf b.v. out of scrape!

Since the reconstruction after the fire in the work room in 1985 we have extended our company with a new office and reception room for visitors.

Further more the company terrain was enlarged with a piece of wood-land that was bought from the municipal Aa en Hunze to extend our storage hangars.

The hangars were realised by our selves with help of our employees in 2001.

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