We recently attended the Carpet & Rug Institute’s (CRI) 2017 annual meeting of in Dalton, Ga., where we had the opportunity to talk with Joe Yarbrough, the trade group’s president.
During our conversation, Yarbrough discussed a variety of topics reviewing some of the accomplishments the trade association had achieved over the past year, including the dissemination of information on carpet and rugs to the industry and consumers on its website. He talked about the group’s environmentally oriented Green Label Plus program and recognition of it by the EPA and approval by ANSI. He also talked about the promotion efforts of the group advancing the benefits of commercial and residential soft flooring reaching some projected 25 to 28 million.