About
A fabricator's slab yard, run by a fabricator.
Cristian Flores cut his first granite countertop in 1998. He opened JMP Stone Supply in 2009 because the Sacramento region needed a yard that thought like a shop. Sixteen years in, that hasn't changed.
Cristian Flores · Founder & Owner
"I spent ten years running a shop in West Sacramento before I started JMP. Every week I'd lose a job because a supplier hadn't held the slab they promised, or because a delivery showed up two days late and my install crew was sitting around. I started JMP to be the yard I wished I'd had on the receiving end."
The first warehouse was 4,200 square feet on a corner of someone else's lot. Three employees, a forklift older than the building, and about 40 slabs at any given time. We sold to four shops. Two are still customers today.
By 2015 we'd outgrown the original space and moved the operation to Granite Bay — closer to the Roseville and Folsom corridor where most of our trade partners were based. The current yard is 24,000 square feet under roof with another acre of open A-frame racks outside.
The model hasn't changed since day one. We do not fabricate, we do not sell to homeowners off the street, and we do not stock anything we wouldn't put in our own kitchen. That's the whole pitch.
2009
Founded by Cristian Flores
80+
Active trade partners
24,000 sq ft
Climate-controlled gallery
12 hr
Average quote turnaround
What we believe
Inventory honesty over inventory volume.
We label every slab with origin block, date received, and a tested hardness rating. When a stone sold as "quartzite" tests soft, we mark it and price it accordingly — we'd rather lose a sale than help your client find a defect after install.
About a third of our inventory is from partners we've worked with for over eight years. That continuity is what lets us stand behind a remnant or a reorder six months later.
In the warehouse
A yard that runs like an install crew.
Loading is done with an overhead bridge crane — no chains scraping a polished edge. Every outgoing slab is wrapped in cardboard at the contact points before it leaves the rack. Our drivers don't unload at job sites unless your foreman is present to sign off.
Small things. They add up to fewer chips, fewer claims, and fewer awkward phone calls between you and your client.
