“I thought it would be important to share an example of what if you don’t change, if you don’t evolve quickly enough,” said Michel Vermette, former CEO, Armstrong Flooring. “What can you learn? Sometimes to figure out what you want to do, you have to start with what you don’t want to do or what position you don’t want to be in.”
Vermette opened his session for retailers at this year’s FloorCon trade show in Tucson, Arizona, by sharing his personal flooring industry journey of nearly 30 years. Vermette’s father was a general contractor and remodeler who worked in Canada for 15 years. Vermette graduated from the University of Quebec with a bachelor’s degree in management accounting and climbed the ladder for more than 17 years at Mohawk Industries. He spent the last three years of his career with Armstrong Flooring.