Eden-Valders Stone
Wholesale Building MaterialsWisconsin, United States51-200 Employees
Eden-Valders Stone is a wholesale building materials company based in Eden, Wisconsin, operating nine quarries, three processing facilities, and employing approximately 180 people. The company was founded in 1950 by Emil Gesell and his sons William and Robert as a simple gravel yard in Marblehead, Wisconsin, and later expanded its product line to hand-dressed veneer and landscaping materials. It extended its market reach to Milwaukee and Chicago in the 1960s and expanded across the Midwest by the early 1980s, supported by investments in cutting equipment and facilities. To broaden its material options, Eden Stone acquired quarry land in Oakfield and Chilton and later acquired Valders Stone & Marble near Manitowoc to expand into the cut stone sector. Eden-Valders Stone remains in its fourth generation of family ownership and maintains operations at its Eden location, with a corporate website at evstone.net.