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Become an AJ Shades Dealer in Chatham County
Savannah’s coast, Tybee’s salt air, and an incumbent that never went retractable.
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Chatham County is Georgia’s coast: Savannah, Pooler, Richmond Hill, and Tybee Island, more than three hundred thousand residents, and a shade market defined by two forces, salt air and hurricanes. The incumbent trade is B2C retail installers: Coastal Canvas Products on Chatham Parkway, in business since 1975, and Savannah Awnings. Both sell shade. Neither offers a wholesale dealer program, and neither built its name on retractable product, which leaves the county’s most defensible category wide open.
Salt air is the dealer’s opening argument. Fixed awnings and cheap hardware die young on this coast; the sealed full-cassette housing and marine-grade components we wholesale are the answer to the question every waterfront homeowner has already asked. ‘When it’s not in use, it’s armored’ is the sentence that wins Tybee Island and the Wilmington Island waterfront, and it’s a sentence the canvas incumbents can’t deliver.
Hurricane exposure makes retraction the whole pitch. Homeowners here have a storm story, and the idea of an awning that puts itself away before the wind arrives, wind-sensor auto-retract, standard on our motorized line, is the story they already believe. Fixed shade fights the storm; retractable shade leaves the fight. In a county that watches every tropical forecast, that distinction sells itself. It is the easiest close in coastal Georgia.
Savannah’s historic districts and strict design guidelines favor quality American-made shading, architectural review boards approve product that looks intentional and lasts. And the hospitality corridor, River Street, downtown, the restaurant patios that define the visitor economy, runs on retractable shade that keeps tables open through the coastal sun. Commercial repeat business is the dealer’s steadiest margin, and the corridor’s density makes route-based service profitable.
AJ Shades manufactures in Southern California, where our own crews handle installation; in Chatham County, dealers sell the product and arrange installation with their own teams or trusted local contractors. Wholesale catalog, dealer portal, measuring and installation training, marketing support, with military families at Hunter Army Airfield and port-growth buyers keeping demand steady underneath it all.
The product line
What Chatham County dealers sell
Coastal-grade retractables and screens, the residential angle the incumbent underplays.
Motorized Power Screens
Zip-track screens for the porches of the historic districts, the patios of Pooler’s new subdivisions, and the waterfront homes of Wilmington Island: screens that drop at the touch of a remote, enclose against insects and sun, and give dealers the product the canvas shops don’t pitch, a second revenue line on every residential measure.
See power screens for dealersFull-Cassette Awnings
The coastal flagship: sealed housing that armors the fabric against salt air, storm debris, and Tybee’s weather when retracted. For the historic-district review boards and the waterfront premium streets, the cassette’s clean profile is the design standard, and the 15-year factory warranty is the proof of durability the coast demands.
See cassette awningsOpen-Roll Retractable Awnings
The volume answer for Richmond Hill, the Garden City corridor, and the county’s working-family neighborhoods: genuine on-demand shade at economics that close fast, backed by the same 15-year factory warranty as the coastal premium line. Open-roll keeps the dealer competitive in every zip code, not just the waterfront ones.
Browse the dealer catalogEvery retractable awning and motorized power screen carries our 15-year warranty, factory-serviced, American-made, and the dealer’s proof of durability on a coast that eats cheap shade.
Territory opportunity
Savannah, Pooler, Richmond Hill, Tybee
The coast’s corridors, from historic review boards to military housing.
The historic Savannah core, the landmark districts, the squares, and the strict architectural review boards, is the premium lane: buyers who approve quality and pay for it. Dealers who master the review-submission paperwork, we supply the brochures and spec sheets, turn the design guidelines into a competitive moat that drive-in competitors can’t cross.
The River Street and downtown hospitality corridor brings the commercial volume: restaurant and bar patios that need retractable shade to stay open through the coastal sun, and owners who buy in multiples. One hospitality account can out-earn a month of residential jobs, and every shaded patio advertises to the tourists walking past it.
The Pooler and Richmond Hill growth belt delivers the residential density: new subdivisions, HOA-governed patios, and port-growth families arriving with relocation budgets and open backyard decisions. Retractable awnings and power screens are the natural upgrade on every new patio, and the military and port communities refer within their own networks.
The Tybee Island and waterfront market is the salt-air proving ground: the toughest environment in the county and the best story a dealer can tell. Survive Tybee and you can sell anywhere on the coast. Apply today for a straight answer on availability in Chatham County.
Why partner with AJ Shades
The wholesale edge in Chatham County
The coast’s incumbents never built a dealer program. You are the program.
1. Wholesale, not franchise. No buy-in, no royalties, no annual fees. Buy American-made retractable awnings and power screens at dealer pricing, sell under your own brand from Savannah to Tybee, and keep every dollar of margin, the business stays yours, top to bottom.
2. Own the retractable angle. The incumbent shops built their names on canvas, shutters, and storm protection, not residential retractable shade. You walk in with the product line they underplay and the story the coast already believes: shade that puts itself away before the storm.
3. Salt air is your sales engineer. Every failed fixed awning on this coast is your best advertisement. ‘Sealed housing, marine-grade components, and it puts itself away before the storm’ is a pitch the environment delivers for you, your job is simply to be in the room when the homeowner asks for the solution.
4. The 15-year warranty for the review boards. Historic-district boards and detail-oriented coastal buyers read specifications. A 15-year factory-serviced warranty on every retractable awning and motorized power screen is the credential that moves approvals and closes premium jobs, and the line the canvas shops can’t match with a straight face.
5. Commercial density, residential steadiness. Hospitality patios for the high-ticket repeat work, military and port-growth families for the steady residential base. Dealer portal, training, and marketing support help you work both lanes without new headcount, new trucks, or new overhead.
Running an install-first business on the Georgia coast? The contractor program fits contractors who lead with their crew, and many Georgia partners run both programs together.
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Questions Chatham County businesses ask us
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