Few, if any, could have pinpointed the number of changes that took place in the floor covering industry last year.
On the retail front, Flooring America filed for Chapter 11 and then the original owners of Carpet Exchange, which had sold its stores to Flooring America, stepped in and bought back a dozen of them. And then Carpet One bought a whole slug of the Flooring America outlets and its GCO stores. That made Carpet One an even bigger giant than it already was.