Starnet celebrated its 30th anniversary in Colorado Springs, Colorado, offering commercial flooring contractors, manufacturing partners, service providers and industry partners the chance to reconnect and plan in person. President and CEO Mark Bischoff met with Floor Trends to give some insight on the organization, which currently has 180 members in 390 locations accounting for $4 billion annual sales.
Bischoff: It’s a member-driven organization, so they have high expectations for each other. They're very competitive, and their membership committee selects and evaluates the members to join the organization. They’ve put them through a process and they get references from our vendor partners as well as local area members. There's an interview and that's part of that quality check in. It's not easy to join Starnet—you already have to be significant in the marketplace, but beyond that, you have to have good credentials. And that feeds through to everything that they do. So our members have set the standard for what quality means and their commitment to the industries. Incredible. And they're great entrepreneurs.