Wood Floor Business Competitors

Lumber Liquidators (NYSE: LL) began in 1993 when Tom Sullivan, a building contractor, began purchasing excess wood that other companies didn't need and reselling it from the back of a trucking yard in Stoughton, Massachusetts. The company found its niche market in hardwood flooring. The first store opened on January 5, 1996 in West Roxbury, Massachusetts selling 150 sq ft of flooring the first day. Eight months later, a second store opened in Hartford, Connecticut and from there the increase continued. The company moved headquarters from Boston to Colonial Heights, Virginia in 1999. By 2004 the company was bursting at the seams and moved headquarters to its current location, a 306,000 sq ft production center in Toano, Virginia. Over the past 20 years the company has grown steadily, with stores in 46 states and over 1000 employees. Lumber Liquidators has hundreds of locations in the US and Canada and continues to expand throughout North America. Lumber Liquidators prides itself on having one of the largest inventories of prefinished and unfinished hardwood floors in the industry. There are flooring experts in every store ready to help, and free samples are available. Lumber Liquidators carries solid and engineered hardwood, laminate flooring, bamboo flooring, cork flooring, vinyl flooring, wood-look tile flooring, butcher blocks, moldings, accessories and tools. Lumber Liquidators negotiates directly with the mills, eliminating the middleman and passing the savings on to the customers. The environmentally conscientious company only purchases from suppliers who practice sustainable harvesting, which allows forests to heal and re-grow faster. Everything Lumber Liquidators sells (unless specified otherwise) is first-quality, graded to industry specifications, and available in standard flooring lengths. Visit your local Lumber Liquidators store, order online at www.lumberliquidators.com or call 1-800-FLOORING.

Floor & Decor is like no other flooring company. Our customers enjoy the largest in-stock selection of tile, wood, laminate, vinyl and stone from around the world at everyday low prices. We deliver a unique shopping experience through inspirational displays and incredible customer service. From our stores to our corporate headquarters you will find people that care, work hard, collaborate, and innovate. Through our associates’ teamwork and entrepreneurial spirit, we’ve quickly become one of the country’s leading flooring retailers; we’re proud to be recognized as one of Fortune’s 100 fastest-growing companies in 2020. With 200 stores and counting, the opportunities to advance within our organization are endless. To continue our amazing growth, Floor & Decor is actively seeking gifted people with a solid work ethic and a real passion for helping others. Are you ready to make a difference at a truly groundbreaking company? From our retail stores to our distribution centers, to our corporate office, we encourage you to explore the variety of exciting opportunities available right now. Our career opportunities may leave you floored.

Experience is the best innovator. With more than 160 years in the business, Kährs is one of the oldest manufacturers of wood floors in the world. It is also one of the most innovative, with a flooring portfolio ranging from hardwood to LVT to resilient, for applications ranging from small residential homes to large apartment buildings, and, thanks to our Kährs Upofloor products, high traffic commercial spaces with strict health and safety requirements. Kährs is still based in the town of Nybro, deep in the heart of a Swedish forest, where our company was born in 1857. The flooring knowledge we have accumulated over the years has been passed down from generation to generation. Since the beginning, we've approached everything we do with a commitment to sustainability, from our replanting strategy to our water treatment to our use of wood waste to heat the surrounding town of Nybro. We are constantly discussing new ideas how to improve our floors. At work, we are trying, testing and eventually succeeding. But the goal is always the same: how to find ways to make our floors even better looking, stronger, easier to install and more sustainable. We're proud that people all over the world appreciate the result. Today, our floors can be found in homes, offices, shops, hotels, concert halls, theaters and sports arenas from Europe and Asia to the Americas.