John Bouchard (seated) with JBS employees in 1910
JBS machine shop
JBS team and partial vehicle fleet
John Bouchard & Sons Co. (JBS) is celebrating its 125th year of building and sustaining hardworking infrastructure. Drive any street in the mid-south, and there is a good chance one will pass over manhole covers, valve boxes, or drainage grates branded with the JBS diamond.
"From the first refrigeration systems in The Hermitage Hotel and Vanderbilt Hospital to advanced manufacturing infrastructure across the modern Mid-South, the JBS tradition of innovation and excellence has helped create and maintain the systems that facilitate flourishing communities," said a company spokesperson.
Headquartered in its original location near Nashville's capitol hill, with its foundry facility only a few blocks away, JBS operates branch offices in Knoxville, TN, Elizabethtown, KY, and Evansville, IN.
"We are still here because we hold ourselves to high standards: get it right the first time, treat customers as we hope to be treated, tell the truth, and be like family to each other," said 5th-generation owner Lisa Bouchard Morgan. "These values organically grew through the mentoring and camaraderie of our great people. The genuine diversity of our capabilities in 10 unique trades evolved to meet customer needs. The agility this brings to our clients is unique."
JBS began as a forge metal works shop on Harrison St. and adapted as industry and technologies changed. It now provides equipment sales and service, iron construction castings, construction, and machine services to thousands of commercial, institutional, industrial and municipal customers.
Over 12 decades, the diversified business has equipped places like Churchill Downs, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Eastman Chemical, See Rock City, Redstone Arsenal, Vanderbilt Hospital, Metro Water, Bridgestone Americas, Coca-Cola Bottling, The Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Starbucks stores, Memphis International Airport, and thousands in between, each receiving customized solutions.
The Tennessee Legislature honored the company with "A Resolution to recognize the 125th anniversary of John Bouchard & Sons Co.," which Gov. Bill Lee recently signed. JBS is a Woman Business Enterprise, certified by The Governor's Office of Diversity Business Enterprise (GO-DBE) for the State of Tennessee.
For more information contact:
John Bouchard & Sons Co.
1024 Harrison St.
Nashville, TN 37203
615-256-0112