Gulf Winds International, Inc. was founded in April, 1996 by Ron Messner, Steve Stewart and Bruce Erftmier (as a junior partner). Both Ron and Steve had many years of warehousing and transportation experience between them so it seemed natural that they would eventually do something of their own. Bruce was an associate of Ron's for many years and brought extensive warehouse supervisory experience to the team. Their idea was to develop a full service, third party logistics company that would focus on warehousing, land transportation, distribution and consolidation