Traditionally, masonry contracting firms are small businesses, often family owned. Today, that description still fits most masonry contractors. NCMCA parlays the combined resources of members to meet the challenges of the masonry business in a manner mostly impossible for individual firms to do on their own. Like-minded individuals understand that none of us prosper unless masonry remains the undisputed building material of choice. As masonry contractors, our competition is not each other, but rather the competing building systems who erode more of masonry's market share every day.