Flooring The Competition

"We were probably five to seven years into outgrowing our space," he remarks.

A few years ago NRF expanded its territory to include western New York and Pennsylvania. It now sells to retailers in eight states, taking 43,000 orders per month and supplying about 2,300 flooring stores. Because of its continuing growth, NRF added a new 105,000-square-foot warehouse on the outskirts of Augusta, the capital of Maine. While it was being completed, the in-plant was temporarily relocated into a rented space, but now it has been moved into the new warehouse.