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January 01, 1900

Interface Announces Transition of Resource Connect Dealer Network to Private Ownership

Atlanta, GA -- Interface, Inc. today announced the completion of the sale of its Resource Connect aligned dealer network and the transition of the network to private ownership. The 10-year old network consisted of 78 independently owned and operated floorcovering companies located throughout the United States and Mexico. The Resource Commercial Flooring Network, as it will now be known, will be member-owned with an experienced management team headed by Ron Lee as executive director. Interface’s affiliated carpet mills – Interface Flooring Systems and Bentley Prince Street – will remain vendors to the network.

“Our investment in this network of customers and industry partners via these floorcovering dealers has been critical to our execution of two key strategies for Interface: market segmentation, and leadership in sustainability,” said Daniel T. Hendrix, president and CEO of Interface, Inc. “The continuity of leadership and industry partnerships will help us stay the course with these initiatives.”

New Executive Director Ron Lee brings a wealth of firsthand experience to his role, having served as a founder of the StarNet Cooperative dealer network. He joined Interface in 1996 and served as president of Re: Source (as the Interface-owned dealer network was originally known) for four years. Currently, he is executive vice president of Commercial Interior Resources, an Irvine, Calif.-based flooring contractor, and will leave that role to assume leadership of Resource.

“The best thing about the role of our business is that it is constantly changing and evolving to meet our customers’ needs,” said Lee. “We will continue to integrate products and services, and will develop programs to meet the specific needs of customers in market segments, matching their expectations with the unique qualifications of our dealers. We will continue to differentiate ourselves with a greener network, offering access to the industry’s most successful reclamation and recycling program, Interface’s ReEntry program, and providing our dealers with the tools they need to continuing greening their businesses.”

Resource’s industry-leading manufacturer partners, many who have been part of the network since its formation, also expressed their support of the purchase and changes, and pledged their continued partnership with the group.

“We see the network as a great way for us to connect to and service the needs of our customers and the flooring industry as a whole,” said Don Gillett, president and CEO of Roppe Holding Company. “Professional flooring installation has become integral due to the increasingly complex flooring designs and products that flooring manufacturers are introducing to the industry. The Resource Network is an ideal avenue for us to connect with the professional installer to ensure our quality products are installed professionally each and every time. We are excited by the change and are ready to support the new structure of the Resource Commercial Flooring Network.”

Atlanta-based Interface, Inc. is a global leader in the manufacture of environmentally-responsible floorcoverings and other textiles in the U.S., Asia-Pacific and Europe through subsidiaries and divisions such as Bentley Prince Street, Interface Fabrics, Interface Flooring Systems, InterfaceFLOR and the Prince Street House & Home Collection™. The company is committed to giving the marketplace a wide range of choices for specifying Earth-friendly and third party certified Environmentally Preferable Products, with the industry’s first climate neutral carpet, Cool Carpet™, as well as the only carpet product to be designed using biomimicry, the i2™ collection from Interface Flooring Systems. The company also offers a residential carpet product made by InterfaceFLOR with facecloth fibers produced from a rapidly-renewable, corn-based polymer.