Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> March 11, 2002
JEFFREY P. ORLEANS is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
of Orleans Hombuilders Inc. As a third generation homebuilder in the
Delaware Valley, Mr. Orleans grew up in the building business, following
the footsteps of his grandfather, A.P. Orleans, and father Marvin. He
became a full working partner of Orleans Homebuilders after college, and
in the mid-1980s assumed leadership of the company. Today Orleans
Homebuilders is the largest homebuilder in the Delaware Valley, offering
homes in Bucks, Chester, and Delaware counties in Pennsylvania; in
Camden, Gloucester, Burlington, Hunterdon and Somerset counties in New
Jersey; and (through Parker, Lancaster & Orleans) in Richmond and
Tidewater, Virginia, and in the North Carolina areas of Charlotte,
Greensboro, and Raleigh/Durham. Profile
as well as an overview of what you're doing at the present time?
Mr. Orleans: Our business was started about 80 years
