If you sell monuments but don't own a factory, your pricing is set by whoever supplies you. For most independent dealers, that means a regional wholesale distributor — and a margin gap you can't close. Gifford Monument Works is the factory. Buy direct, price honestly, install confidently.
Most independent monument dealers buy through a regional wholesale distributor. That distributor sits between the dealer and the actual quarry — and every constraint, every limitation, every margin on the cost stack lands on the dealer.
Independent dealers buying through a regional wholesaler pay whatever the distributor charges — and rarely have visibility into the real factory cost upstream. The wholesaler's margin is the dealer's ceiling on competitiveness.
Most regional wholesalers stock a narrow color set. If a family wants a granite color the distributor doesn't carry, the dealer is stuck. Direct factory sourcing opens up the full international color palette.
Drop-shipped stones still have to be set in a cemetery. Dealers without a crew either subcontract or skip the installation entirely — and lose the margin and quality control either way.
When granite arrives with a chip, a wrong cut, or a color variance, the dealer fights the wholesaler, the wholesaler points at the factory, and the family waits. With a direct factory relationship, the supply chain is shorter and the accountability is clearer.
Gifford Monument Works is a vertically integrated manufacturer. We have direct factory relationships overseas, an in-house sandblasting and engraving shop in Ada, Oklahoma, and installation crews across Oklahoma and North Texas. When you buy from us, you are buying from the factory — not from the middleman who buys from the factory.
That changes the math on every order. The price is closer to the real factory cost. The color selection is your real choice, not the distributor's stocked subset. Quality issues are resolved with us — the actual manufacturer — not adjudicated between three companies pointing at each other.
You sell. We build. You earn the margin you should have been earning all along.
Everything an independent monument dealer needs to take orders, deliver finished memorials, and grow without the wholesale distributor markup.
Direct relationships with overseas granite factories. Our dealers get factory pricing with our handling margin — typically meaningfully better than what a regional wholesale distributor charges.
Black, blue, red, gray, mahogany, green, and rare specialty colors. We source by direct factory order, so we're not limited to what a regional distributor decides to stock.
You see your cost on every product. Margin is yours. No hidden fees, no per-order surcharges, no volume gates on pricing tiers.
We can drop-ship to your location, or we can install at the cemetery directly across Oklahoma and North Texas. Many dealers prefer that we install — it removes equipment, scheduling, and liability.
Every monument is proofed digitally before production. Your customer sees the design, the granite color, and the layout — and approves it — before we cut stone. No surprises at installation.
We don't run consumer ads in our dealers' markets. We don't compete with you in your territory. We are a manufacturer and installer — your upstream partner.
Buying through a regional wholesale distributor stacks two markups between the family and the factory. Buying through Gifford stacks one — and we are the manufacturer at the end of it.
How you spend the difference is up to you — quote more competitively, hold your retail price and earn more margin, or both. The point is that the price gap exists, and most independent dealers don't realize how much of it is leaving on the wholesale side.
We're not a regional distributor expanding into retail. We're not building a retail chain that will eventually compete with our wholesale buyers. We're a manufacturer, and that's the lane we stay in.
Our direct factory sourcing lets us specify exactly what we need — slab thickness, finish type, grade — and source colors that aren't widely available through domestic wholesalers.
Run your own setting crew? Drop-ship. Don't have a crew? We install across Oklahoma and North Texas. We adapt to how your dealership operates, not the other way around.
Family-owned and operated since 1936. Every kind of order, every cemetery, every quality issue you can think of — we've seen it. That experience backs every dealer order.
The first step is a phone call. We'll walk you through our dealer price sheet, granite color catalog, and how the supply relationship works.
Gifford Monument Works · Ada, Oklahoma · Factory-direct granite supplier for independent dealers · Oklahoma & Texas markets