By The Roofing Brief Team ยท Last reviewed: October 2026
SRS Distribution acquires CORCO’s commercial roofing division, expanding the distributor’s Chicago-area footprint, per a June 5, 2026 Construction Owners report. Financial terms were not released.
The report describes CORCO (Industrial Cork Company) as a Chicago-region distributor of commercial roofing materials and accessories with roots dating to 1935. Co-owner Jeff DeJong continues to lead the roofing business under SRS with existing management in place, and CORCO’s controlled environment building construction division was not part of the deal. The same report calls SRS a wholly owned subsidiary of The Home Depot; SRS’s own site lists a McKinney, Texas headquarters and over 430 branches.
The big-three distributor squeeze
Commercial roofing distribution in major US metros is a contest among SRS, ABC Supply and Beacon, which now operates under QXO, with independents serving specialty product lines or specific operator relationships. Buying CORCO’s roofing division adds a customer base and branch network without opening a greenfield branch, echoing contractor-side deals such as Nations Roof’s Grizzly acquisition announced a day earlier.
For Chicago commercial roofing operators the practical impact turns on whether SRS keeps CORCO’s customer relationships and credit terms. Our look at shingle supply house pricing shows how ABC Supply, Beacon and SRS set contractor prices.
| If you are | Then |
|---|---|
| A contractor with a CORCO commercial roofing account | Ask in writing whether your account number, credit limit and price list carry over to SRS; DeJong and existing management stay on, per the report |
| A buyer of CORCO’s controlled environment building products | That division was not acquired and remains independent under existing ownership |
| A Chicago contractor with one primary supplier | Quote the same bill of materials from a second distributor now, so a price change after integration has a benchmark |
Operator implications
Supplier consolidation shows up in three places on a contractor’s books: credit terms, price lists and branch service. An owner who knows which distributors serve the market, which credit programs the business qualifies for, and whether the primary supplier has changed hands in the past 12 months can plan margin around it. On the contractor side, our roofing industry concentration report measures how fragmented the market still is.
Source: Construction Owners (June 5, 2026). The Roofing Brief was not involved in the transaction.