Bishop Cabinets is celebrating 60 years of business. A new logo has been created to commemorate this milestone. We also take this opportunity to record the history of the company.
Jim Bishop, Sr graduated from Huntingdon College in 1961 with a degree in accounting. After working as a bookkeeper for a local management company, Jim decided to go and work with his brother building homes in the Montgomery, Alabama area. The building business was successful. However, they were having a hard time getting cabinets for their homes. Jim Sr started building cabinets for their homes. Eventually, other builders came to them in need of product. He became so busy with cabinets that he left the home building business. On August 1st, 1964 Jim Sr founded Jim Bishop Cabinets, Inc.
After a couple of years of servicing small home builders, Jim Sr started building cabinets for the apartment industry throughout the states of Alabama and Georgia. In 1986 Jim Bishop, Jr. came to work with his father and started selling cabinets to larger home builders in the Montgomery and Atlanta markets. In an effort to grow the business, in 1990 Jim Bishop, Jr. hired the company’s first sales representatives in Georgia and Florida. As the nineties progressed more sales reps in multiple territories were hired. Jim Bishop Cabinets transitioned from an apartment/builder cabinet company to a dealer based semi-custom company working with individual dealers throughout the eastern half of the US.
Jim Bishop Cabinets saw exponential growth during the late 90s and early 2000s operating two facilities. – One in Montgomery, Alabama and the other in Pell City, Alabama. During that time period Jim Bishop Cabinets (dba Bishop Cabinets) had several innovations in the cabinet industry. Bishop Cabinets was one of the first cabinet companies to offer free ordering software, one of the first to offer a custom door program, and one of the first to offer an affordale paint and glaze finish option.
Due to changing market needs, Bishop Cabinets introduced their first frameless line of cabinetry in 2009. The frameless box was offered in ¾” particleboard box and in a ¾” plywood box. The new frameless line offered similar door styles to the framed line, but also opened a new series of foil and metal doors. Because of the slow economy and significantly lower sales, Bishop Cabinets closed the Pell City location in late 2009.
From 2010 to 2020 growth was slow but steady. Bishop increased its product line by offering more custom door styles and introducing a less expensive birch line of cabinets. During this time period more glazes and custom finishes and paints were also added. Covid hit in the spring of 2020 and sales increased exponentially. The order backlog bacame so big, Bishop had to push out lead times and increase production. The years 2021 and 2022 were extremely strong and the future looked bright. In 2023 there was an increased need to expand and revamp the frameless line with new equipment and technology. Since then a major push has been undertaken to expand the frameless production capacity.
In 2024 Bishop Cabinets celebrates its 60th anniversery. In those 60 years production techniques have changed as well as management and leadership. Even after 60 years, Bishop remains a family run operation with third generation family members working in the business. Bishop Cabinets is 100% debt free, and is using the most modern production and optimization systems to remain strong in this corporate controlled industry.
Made & Tested in the USA
For 60 years our cabinets are manufactured in Montgomery, Alabama. Our cabinets are rigorously tested by the Kitchen Cabinet Manufactures Association for durability and quality.
Our Vision Statement: “To create beautiful and functional cabinets through innovation, growth, and a commitment to keep family values at the core of everything we do.”