Dealer Network · Louisiana · New Iberia
Become an AJ Shades Dealer in New Iberia
New Iberia: about 28,000 residents along Bayou Teche, where Avery Island tourism, the Shadows historic corridor, and sugarcane country create an unserved market.
Prefer text? Text AJ Shades at (909) 325-3110
Our team has earned 605 five-star reviews.
Owned
Made
on awnings & screens
five-star reviews
CSLB #951583
Ready to talk territories? Text (909) 325-3110 (TEXT-only) or call Richard Gutierrez, Project Manager, at (949) 378-6642 (Se habla espanol).
New Iberia runs on bayou time -- around 28,000 people along Bayou Teche in Iberia Parish, where Avery Island's Tabasco tourism, the Shadows-on-the-Teche historic corridor, and the sugarcane fields set the pace. Acadiana's outdoor-living culture runs deep here, but the price structure is small-city: the dealer opportunity is a premium product in a market nobody is serving.
The rural edge is the differentiator no metro dealer can copy. Sugarcane-country acreage, bayou camps, and raised homes -- properties where a motorized power screen turns a porch into a three-season room and a retractable awning shades the outdoor kitchen. Nobody is quoting this work because nobody is here. The dealer who drives Iberia Parish owns it outright.
Tourism spillover adds the commercial-adjacent lane: Avery Island visitors, bed-and-breakfasts, and event venues along the Teche that furnish their outdoor spaces to guest standards. Residential tickets with hospitality polish -- the installs that photograph beautifully and refer across the parish.
Small-city economics are the quiet advantage: word-of-mouth that genuinely travels, visibility at parish events, and relationships with the builders framing Iberia's new homes. In a town this size, one great install is a billboard the whole parish drives past.
No wholesale dealer-supply program exists anywhere in Louisiana -- every competitor statewide is B2C retail. Dealers quote with a free in-home estimate and financing answers -- rates as low as 0% for 24 months for qualified buyers -- and the storm line stays straight: retract before tropical systems, because no awning is rated for hurricane winds, with wind-sensor-equipped automation covering the bayou fronts.
The product line
What New Iberia dealers sell
Bayou-country shade for Teche corridor homes, camps, and venues.
Motorized Power Screens
On the Teche, a motorized screen rewrites the porch: bugs held at the mesh, shade through the afternoon, and a room that works three seasons a year. At the bayou camps it is the same story with better scenery. Nobody else is quoting either market.
Power screens for Louisiana dealersFull-Cassette Retractable Awnings
The cassette fits the historic corridor and the buy-once buyer alike: fabric sealed away from bayou damp, Somfy-powered drive across the span, and fifteen years of factory warranty in writing. Quality, documented, is how premium sells in a small parish.
Cassette awnings: dealer detailsOpen-Roll Retractable Awnings
The open-roll carries the corridor's value lane: motorized, sensor-ready, fifteen-year backed, and priced for working families from Loreauville to Delcambre. Rural acreage, standard homes, one sharp configuration.
Retractable awnings overviewNew Iberia dealers carry retractable awnings in cassette and open-roll profiles, motorized power screens, and awning recover for Iberia Parish's historic and rural homes. 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 Teche and the cane fields
Bayou Teche corridor, Avery Island, and the rural parish.
Start in New Iberia proper and the Shadows corridor. Historic homes, established buyers, and the recover funnel -- aging shade on some of the most photographed streets in Acadiana.
Work the Bayou Teche corridor toward Loreauville and St. Martinville. Bayou-side living, camps, and the outdoor culture that makes shade a necessity rather than a luxury.
Cover Avery Island and the tourism edge. Visitor venues, B&Bs, and event spaces furnishing to guest standards -- commercial-adjacent tickets at residential margins.
Hold the sugarcane-country rural edge: Coteau, Bayou Jack, and the Delcambre and Erath reach. Acreage, raised homes, and buyers nobody else drives to quote -- the dealer who covers the parish owns it all.
Why partner with AJ Shades
The Teche edge
An unserved market, the rural moat, and parish-wide word-of-mouth.
1. Wholesale in a parish that had neither. Iberia Parish has never had a local awning retailer, much less a wholesale channel. Our dealers buy factory-direct at wholesale and keep the entire spread, selling product-only anywhere in the country with installation by trusted local contractors. AJ Shades installs only in Southern California -- San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties -- and never in Louisiana.
2. The rural edge is the moat. Bayou camps, cane-country acreage, and raised homes need shade and screens as badly as any suburb -- and nobody is quoting them. The dealer who drives the parish has a market with no competitors at all.
3. Tourism spillover photographs itself. Avery Island venues and Teche-corridor B&Bs create the portfolio installs that sell the next twenty residential jobs. Wind-sensor-equipped systems and the 15-year factory warranty on retractables and power screens give those venues the specification story they want. The details differ by product and component.
4. Small-town word-of-mouth compounds. In a parish this size, reputation is the entire marketing plan -- and it works. One great install refers the street, the street refers the town, and the dealer becomes the name everyone knows.
5. Order-built product from a veteran-owned maker. AJ Shades is veteran-owned, manufactures in the United States, and builds each system for its order. New Iberia dealers invest in samples and reputation -- the two assets a small parish rewards most.
Already installing across Louisiana? The contractor programwelcomes trade businesses, and many Louisiana dealers hold the contractor program alongside the dealer seat.
Start Your ApplicationNew Iberia dealer FAQ
Questions New Iberia businesses ask us
How do I become an AJ Shades dealer in Louisiana?
Is the AJ Shades dealer program a franchise?
What products can Louisiana dealers sell?
Do Louisiana dealers need to carry inventory?
Can a retractable awning stay out year-round in Louisiana?
Do you install on rural properties and camps?
More Louisiana dealer territories
Free estimate • No pressure
New Iberia's dealer seat is open.
Wholesale shade systems for New Iberia 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.
Text AJ Shades
(909) 325-3110
Built by Family. Designed for Yours.
Owned
Made
on awnings & screens
five-star reviews
CSLB #951583