Christianbook, LLC, formerly known as Christian Book Distributors (CBD), is a Christian catalog and internet retailer.
Christian Book Distributors was started in 1978 by Stephen Hendrickson, 19 years old and a sophomore at Central Bible College in Springfield, Missouri, out of his parents’ home in
Lynn, Massachusetts
Lynn is the eighth-largest municipality in Massachusetts and the largest city in Essex County. Situated on the Atlantic Ocean, north of the Boston city line at Suffolk Downs, Lynn is part of Greater Boston's urban inner core. Settled by E ...
. Stephen Hendrickson incorporated the business, first as a nonprofit, and subsequently as a for profit corporation on September 10, 1981.
In 1984 the company built a facility in the Centennial Industrial Park in Peabody. By 1996 CBD had completely outgrown the site and built a new facility across the street, where it remains today. The facility is now . In 2012, CBD was described as employing a staff of just over 500 while "
ontinuingto be a family affair", with its younger co-founder, his 80-year-old mother and his 23-year-old son "still involved with the company".
CBD was selected by ''
The Boston Globe
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'' as one of the Top 100 Places to Work in Massachusetts five years running from 2009 to 2013.
History
In August 2004 Ray Hendrickson replaced Stephen Hendrickson as President/CEO.
In 2008 CBD announced it had entered into a partnership agreement with
Focus on the Family
Focus on the Family (FOTF or FotF) is a fundamentalist Protestant organization founded in 1977 in Southern California by James Dobson, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The group is one of a number of evangelical parachurch organizations ...
to take over the ministry's e-commerce site and product distribution. The partnership took effect early 2009.
In June 2019, Christian Book Distributors changed its name to Christianbook, Inc. due to confusion with
CBD, a chemical from
cannabis
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.
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External links
Official website
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Online retailers of the United States
Bookstores of the United States
Book review websites
Book selling websites
Retail companies established in 1978
1978 establishments in Massachusetts
Companies based in Peabody, Massachusetts