Snow-covered landscape with a Mill and Prefabricated Housing Facility on a frozen river, utility poles, logs stacked in the background, and a cloudy sky with the sun partially obscured.

Our History

50 Years of Our Family Serving Yours

The Cottle’s Brand has 50+ years of heritage in the Notre Dame Bay Region. Founded by Ralph Philpott and carried on by his son Rex Philpott.

A family-owned brand that has extended four generations with Rex’s daughter Lorie and grandson Robin involved in growing the organization.

As a family centric brand, we have endeavoured to maintain year-round employment in rural Newfoundland where most jobs are seasonal. We create opportunities for people to have job security and reliable income while staying with their families.

Being able to come home to your beaming wife and loving children has been a core value for the company throughout the half a century it has operated since incorporating in 1969.

50 Years of Innovating Forest Resources

Cottle’s has a long history of exploring the fringe of what forest resources can accomplish. Starting as a sawmill operation in NL that grew to be 100% vertically integrated.

During CILCL’s 50+ years of operation it has grown to encompass the entire forest-based value-added chain; harvesting logs, trucking raw materials and finished products, sawing dimensional lumber and completing the value chain with secondary processes for siding, flooring, paneling and remains the only wood pellet producer in NL.

Cottle’s next challenge was in residential and commercial real estate. This includes premium lakeside chalets, the manufacturing of panelized homes for export to Chile and Japan, and now supplying Canadians with Prefabricated Housing.

Who knows what the next 50 years of innovation Cottle’s will bring?

Rex Philpott

CEO

A group of people posing inside a warehouse with large bags of lumber in the background.
Rex Philpott, CEO of Cottle's Prefab Homes, is seen with dark hair and a mustache wearing a red shirt, standing outdoors in front of a construction site with stacked lumber. In the background, houses and parked cars are visible under a cloudy sky.
Construction workers at a building site with a partially built modular home on a truck outside a large red warehouse under a clear blue sky.