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Become an AJ Shades Dealer in Kenner
Kenner: about 65,000 residents along the airport corridor, where post-Katrina builds, standard patio slabs, and commuter households create a systematized volume market.
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Kenner is the airport city -- around 65,000 people strung along the I-10 corridor between Lake Pontchartrain and Louis Armstrong International. Post-Katrina construction dominates the housing stock: newer homes, standard patio slabs, young families, and almost no legacy shade. The dealer starts with a clean slate and a repeatable product, which is the rarest combination in the business.
Standard slabs are the volume story. Same footprint, same mounting, same quote -- a dealer can systematize Kenner the way a factory systematizes a line. The open-roll retractable at the smart-value lane, Somfy-powered and wind-sensor-ready with the 15-year factory warranty, installed by trusted local contractors and quoted on the first visit. Run the playbook street by street.
Rivertown's historic district and the lakefront subdivisions add the premium edge: older homes with character, lakefront lots with the west sun, and buyers who want the cassette profile. One territory, two lanes -- volume on the slabs, margin on the lake.
The buyer is the commuter household: airport workers, hospitality shift workers, NOLA commuters who buy on the weekend and want the job handled without drama. The free in-home estimate scheduled around their calendar, financing answers -- rates as low as 0% for 24 months for qualified buyers -- and a crew that shows up when promised. Reliability is the brand.
No wholesale dealer-supply program exists anywhere in Louisiana -- every local name is B2C retail. The storm line stays honest: retract before tropical systems, because no awning is rated for hurricane winds, with wind-sensor-equipped automation covering the fast fronts. The mosquito-screen upsell closes lakefront evenings.
The product line
What Kenner dealers sell
Systematized shade for standard slabs, with a premium lane on the lake.
Motorized Power Screens
The Kenner screen story is the weekend: commuter households live on their patios Saturday and Sunday, and a motorized screen makes those hours shaded, private, and mosquito-free. On standard slabs the install pattern repeats beautifully, which the dealer will appreciate by the third house on the block.
Power screens for Louisiana dealersFull-Cassette Retractable Awnings
Rivertown and the lakefront justify the flagship: cassette housing sealed against Gulf moisture, Somfy drive across the span, automatic wind response, and fifteen years of factory warranty. It is the premium configuration for the homes with character.
Cassette awnings: dealer detailsOpen-Roll Retractable Awnings
If Kenner has a signature product, this is it: an open-roll retractable, motorized and sensor-ready with the fifteen-year backing, quoted off a repeatable slab pattern at the smart-value point. Volume dealers build their whole calendar around it.
Retractable awnings overviewKenner dealers carry retractable awnings in cassette and open-roll profiles, motorized power screens, and awning recover for Jefferson Parish's newer subdivisions. Every retractable awning and motorized power screen carries the 15-year factory warranty. Patio covers are not part of the dealer lineup.
Territory opportunity
The corridor, the lake, and Rivertown
Lakefront subdivisions, Williams Boulevard, and the historic district.
Start in the lakefront subdivisions. West-facing patios, newer builds, and the evening sun problem -- the premium lane where the cassette and screen package sells at full margin.
Work the Williams Boulevard corridor. Dense suburban blocks, standard slabs, and commuter households: the systematized volume lane. Measure the pattern once and quote it a hundred times.
Cover Chateau Estates and Driftwood. Established subdivisions with aging shade and practical buyers -- the recover funnel inside the volume territory. Re-skin the frame, earn the street.
Hold Rivertown and the historic district. Character homes, arts-district energy, and buyers who value craftsmanship. The installs that build the dealer's reputation portfolio.
Why partner with AJ Shades
The airport-corridor edge
Clean-slate builds, repeatable slabs, and commuter reliability.
1. Factory pricing the corridor has never had. Kenner's shade sellers are retail operations layering markup on markup. Dealers in this program buy factory-direct at wholesale and hold the spread themselves, selling product-only across the country while trusted local contractors install. AJ Shades' own crews work only in Southern California -- San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties -- and never in Louisiana.
2. Volume economics per ad dollar. Repeatable footprints and dense blocks make Kenner the most efficient customer-acquisition market in the metro. One good street refers the next five, and the open-roll lane at wholesale pricing is built for exactly this rhythm.
3. Commuter buyers reward reliability. Airport and hospitality households buy on weekends and judge on follow-through. Wind-sensor-equipped systems, the 15-year factory warranty on retractables and power screens, and a crew that shows up -- that is the whole brand. Details are set product by product, component by component.
4. Two lanes, one seat. Standard-slab volume plus lakefront and Rivertown premium: the rare territory where the dealer never has to choose between tickets and throughput.
5. Order-built systems, veteran-owned source. AJ Shades is a veteran-owned American manufacturer that builds after the order, so Kenner dealers carry samples instead of stock and keep their capital aimed at crews, trucks, and the next subdivision.
Already installing across Louisiana? The contractor programwelcomes trade businesses, and many Louisiana dealers hold the contractor program alongside the dealer seat.
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Wholesale shade systems for Kenner dealers: American-made retractable awnings and motorized power screens from a veteran-owned factory, training, and a 15-year warranty on the awning and screen line.
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