Carpet One

Carpet One Floor & Home

Type	Purchasing Cooperative
Industry	Retail
Founded	1984
Founder	Howard Brodsky and Alan Greenberg
Headquarters	Manchester, New Hampshire United States
Area served	United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand
Key people	Howard Brodsky (Founder & co-CEO), Rick Bennett (co-CEO), Eric Demaree (President)
Products	Floor coverings
Services	Flooring Installation
Parent	CCA Global Partners
Website	carpetone.com

Carpet One Floor & Home is a cooperative of independently owned flooring and home decor retail stores. The cooperative consists of 1,000 independently owned and operated locations in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Carpet One Floor & Home stores are known for a broad selection of carpet, wood, laminate, ceramic, vinyl, and area rugs, including exclusive brands like Bigelow and Lees. They offer a unique customer experience with the exclusive SelectAFloor merchandising system that simplifies the shopping experience and The Beautiful GuaranteeTM, which guarantees that the customer will be 100% happy with their floor. Carpet One Floor & Home is also the home of the exclusive Healthier Living Installation system. Carpet One Floor & Home is the largest company of CCA Global Partners, and has offices based in Manchester, New Hampshire and St. Louis, Missouri.

The Carpet One Floor & Home cooperative was the first business formed by CCA Global Partners, a cooperative incubator founded in 1984. Under the banner of CCA Global Partners, the Carpet One model was used by its founders to create 13 different businesses. CCA members and franchisees are engaged in: flooring, lighting products, biking, nonprofit and more.

History

Carpet One Floor & Home was founded by Howard Brodsky and Alan Greenberg in 1985. The company was established with 13 members. By year’s end, retail sales volume for Carpet One’s 26 members reachee $25 million. and by 2016, the company had over 1000 stores across the world.

1986

Shortly after establishing the cooperative, Carpet One members collectively become the nation’s No. 1 floor-covering retail group.

1996

Carpet One expanded internationally with the creation of Carpet One Canada.

2004

Carpet One Floor & Home launches Carpet One Welcomes Your Support to raise funds for breast cancer research and awareness.

2014

Carpet One Floor & Home partners with the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation to support the Building for America's Bravest program which builds "smart homes" for catastrophically injured service members.

The Cooperative Business Model

What We Do

Carpet One Floor & Home's cooperative business model has a proven track record of empowering thousands of entrepreneurs to succeed in a marketplace that is impacted by widespread consolidation. Our mission is to empower entrepreneurs and independent business owners by providing the scale, resources and innovation that create sustainability, growth and effective competition in today’s evolving marketplace.

How We Do It

By providing access to innovative products, systems and services, Carpet One Floor & Home gives independent businesses a competitive edge while allowing them to maintain their identities. Our continuously evolving business model offers independently-owned businesses an array of tools to maximize operational efficiencies and achieve success.

Why We Do It

Carpet One Floor & Home's goal is to create a mutually rewarding bond between the company and community, whereby our growth generates social development and enhances the lives of customers and entrepreneurs around the world.

Carpet One Floor & Home Milestones

Carpet One founders Howard Brodsky and the late Alan Greenberg were inducted into the Cooperative Hall of Fame of the US National Cooperative Business Association in 2009.^[1][2]

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