Rooftops Silicone Distributors Inc.

5 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN VOLUME 9, ISSUE 8 Once fully up to speed on the dire financial circumstances that were impacting Rooftops in 2013, Bressi took time to decide whether he should step in to run the family business and take the necessary steps to bring it back to solid financial footing. Initially reluctant to make the leap, after studying the structure of the business and realizing the unique role it played in the community, Bressi committed himself to take the helm of Rooftops. “It is like no other construction business. It has a retail store where we sell to customers (materials, roof supplies for the do-it-yourself people) and we also have a construction division. So, I had two different businesses within one to deal with,” Bressi reflects. Deciding to retain all the employees who had the knowledge of how the company structure worked, and the experience to back up their performance, one of Bressi’s first tasks was to fully automate the business to help incorporate and utilize the latest technology to both streamline the work and help make the roofing work more efficient. He notes, “We took all the books and drawings and we catalogued the information in the computer. So we don’t have to look through the books and we can go into the computer and find the page that the actual drawing is on.” By simply searching on the computer database for an address of a house that Rooftops had worked on decades ago, the need to manually look through the books is eliminated, saving time for the employees and negating the need to go out and draw the site, as well as compile measurements. “It has helped us just to be automated and find new products that had been under-utilized. It also allows us to capitalize on products that nobody did the research to find out whether they may have become certified to use.” Rooftops is the exclusive PM Silicone distributor in the USVI. Bright white reduces energy costs Up to a 20-year warranty Easy application reduces labor costs Stocked locally and available Custom colors available