Mike Melkonian and Dick Hillman of Advance Floors, and Gene Podell of Carpetland garnered Retailer of the Year awards from Alliance Flooring. The retailers were selected from among the 400-member resource group for their outstanding support of programs, volume increases in 2002, and productive participation in best practices member networking.
Melkonian and Hillman are partners in Karen's Carpet and Advance Floors in Clarkston, Mich. Located in the same building, Advance Floors is a retail showroom business while Karen's Carpet is a roll stocking, mill outlet. The two partners split duties in leading this growing retail concept.