Christianbook

Christianbook, LLC
Formerly	Christian Book Distributors
Company type	Private company
Industry	Christian retail
Founded	1978
Headquarters	Peabody, Massachusetts
Key people	Ray Hendrickson, President & CEO
Products	Books, Bibles, DVDs, CDs, mp3s, gifts, toys, games
Number of employees	500+
Website	www.christianbook.com

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. Stephen Hendrickson incorporated the business, first as a nonprofit, and subsequently as a for profit corporation on September 10, 1981.^[1]^{[non-primary source needed]}

In 1984 the company built a 24,000-square-foot (2,200 m²) 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 300,000 square feet (28,000 m²). In 2012, CBD was described as employing a staff of just over 500 while "[continuing] to 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".^[2]

CBD was selected by The Boston Globe as one of the Top 100 Places to Work in Massachusetts five years running from 2009 to 2013.^[3]

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History

In August 2004 Ray Hendrickson replaced Stephen Hendrickson as President/CEO.^[4]

In 2008 CBD announced it had entered into a partnership agreement with Focus on the Family to take over the ministry's e-commerce site and product distribution. The partnership took effect early 2009.^[5] In June 2019, Christian Book Distributors changed its name to Christianbook, Inc. due to confusion with CBD, a chemical from cannabis.^[6]