Forbo employs about 5,200 people and has an international network of 25 sites with production and distribution, 6 assembly centers and 47 sales organizations in a total of 39 countries worldwide. Forbo is headquartered in Baar in the Canton of Zug, Switzerland, and its shares are listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange.
Bona is a global, family-owned company that supplies products for installing, renovating, maintaining and restoring premium floors. Founded in 1919, Bona pioneered the industry by offering waterborne hardwood floor finishing and floor care products. Today, Bona prioritises the environmental impact of its product and innovates high quality systems for most premium floor surfaces including wood, tile, vinyl, resilient, rubber and laminate. The head office is in Malmö, Sweden, and the company is represented globally across 90 countries through 17 subsidiaries, 70 distributors, 4 production sites and over 700 employees.
Carpet One Floor and Home is a global network of cooperative businesses. A single local retailer in our network is one of 2500 independent retailers, Making us the world’s largest cooperative retail flooring group.
Established in 1984 on principals of Unity, Strength and Success, Carpet One remains a truly cooperative business.
Continuing to operate under the basic cooperative principles established in 1895 by the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA), supporting our collective of small independent businesses, ensuring they prosper and thrive with successful and sustainable operations for the future.
The Carpet One cooperative is not a franchise or a corporate chain.
Corporate and franchise businesses remove profits from local economies, funding inequitable centralised business operations and returning profits to benefit elite shareholders. By design and constitution, the Carpet One Floor and Home cooperative works to constantly improve our members position against such business entities, supporting and enhancing their business and not profiteering from them.
As a single independent retailer, you cannot expect the same bargaining power as a large corporate chain or large franchise group.
As a united, strong cooperative group you can.
Holding a fair even share in the member governed distributing cooperative a Carpet One Floor and Home retailer is local independent businesses working cooperatively for their own benefit and of the community they serve.
Carpet One Floor and Home cooperative provides, purchasing power and tailored assistance to independent retailers allowing them to compete against large business groups.
As a direct member of CCA Global Partners. With collective turnover exceeding $10 billion gross sales per annum CCA Global Partners provides Carpet One Floor and Home enormous buying power and access to global expertise, services, and suppliers.