History

Radstons Office Supply is an independently owned, office products dealership located in Hercules, California. From our new 17,000 sq. foot distribution center, we have been providing office essentials from supplies to furniture, printing & rubber stamps to janitorial, computer & lunch room products to customers all over the greater San Francisco Bay Area. We presently employ 16 staff members and will close this fiscal year with a volume over 4 million dollars. Each day we deploy 4 company owned trucks, driven by company-employee drivers in order to provide next-day delivery to our customers. Our drivers cover San Francisco, the I-80 corridor from Hayward, Oakland, Berkeley, and up through Vallejo, Fairfield & Benicia and then Route 4, I-580, I-680 corridor from Hercules to Pittsburg, out to Livermore and over to San Leandro.

Radstons was founded by Mr. Cliff Radston in 1908, as a turn-of-the-century retail stationery store located in downtown Berkeley. In 1944, Radstons was purchased by Merlin W. Drucquer, the grandfather of our present owner, Diane Griffin, who succeeded her father, John L. Drucquer as company President in 2003. Our roots in the retail industry have defined our focus for today’s business: We do things the way our customer wants them to be done. This is a flexibility factor that is unique to Radstons as far as the scope of our relationships is concerned. It is a factor certainly not found in the larger, big-box competitors who dominate our industry.

We are able to focus on the needs of our customers because every step of the way from order placement to delivery to accounting, we perform our own work, using Radstons employees. This may not seem an important point, but it is very common among the larger competitors to have out-of-state call centers (out-of-country in some cases), third party delivery drivers, account representatives who are no longer available once your business is won and ultimately management located in huge corporate offices outside of California. At Radstons, requests are handled easily and decisions come promptly-most often from our empowered, first-line contacts. Additionally, only with Radstons, can you have direct access to our owner: Diane Griffin is but a telephone call away, ready to address any concern.

Having all our assets in the Bay Area allows us to fully focus and contribute to our local community. We use local companies as service providers (accountants, insurance brokers, lawyers, contractors, IT professionals, janitors and gardeners). Our customer’s money is re-invested in our community with these subsequent local purchases. It is not siphoned off to out-of-state corporate headquarters as it would be with other big-box office products competitors.

Our foundation is based on the strong and lasting business relationships we have formed with valued customers. As we look to the future, we are focused on enhancing services with core clients and also beginning long-term relationships with other local firms.

We truly invite more businesses in the Bay Area to come aboard and experience what we call: “The Radstons Difference”.

State of California certified small, woman-owned business #36031 (12-31-05 thru 11-30-08).

Radstons is an Official Corporate Sponsor of UC Berkeley Athletics &
a Preferred Vendor of the California Alumni Association.
GO Bears !

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