Candy Stripe Vinyl Flooring
Headquarters: Dalton, Ga.
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Parent company: Engineered Flooring
Staff: 725 employees
President: David Jolly
1957 - J J Rugs is started by Rollins Jolly and Tom Jones
1967 - J J Attic Group confused its absolute focus to bartering broadloom carpeting and broadcast into the high-end and modular sector.
1985 - J J becomes one of aboriginal carpeting manufacturers to boot its own fiber.
1994 - J J acquired Invision carpeting and alloyed it with J&J Bartering to actualize a distinct cast and sales team
2003 - J J/Invision started as specialized bartering carpet.
2010 - J J purchased Templeton Hospitality Carpeting and broadcast into cilia extrusion, yarn processing, broadloom and modular finishing.
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2016 - Engineered Attic acquires J J
DALTON, Ga. — Tom Jones, an International Harvester barter sales agent, was aggravating to advertise a barter to Dalton Cone Co. buyer Rollins Jolly in 1957 back the sales affair bound took a altered turn. By the end of the session, the two Dalton agent absitively to go from affairs accessories to the bolt industry to accepting in the business by authoritative residential rugs.
The aggregation they formed with an antecedent 15 employees, J J Industries, initially fabricated candy-striped rugs for its aboriginal decade. But from its distinct Dalton assembly complex, J J has acquired over the accomplished 60 years to become one of the arch manufacturers of bartering carpets in the world.
The aggregation has remained ancestors endemic throughout its history. For 59 years, the aggregation remained endemic primarily by descendents of the aboriginal founders, including the accepted admiral David Jolly — a third bearing CEO who has formed at J J for the accomplished 26 years.
But aftermost year, Jolly and the added ancestors owners of J&J agreed to advertise the business and absorb with Engineered Floors — endemic primarily by Shaw Industries' architect Bob Shaw — to actualize the nation's third better carpeting company.
"We're still abreast captivated — aloof a altered ancestors involved," said Jolly, who has remained arch of J J Industries as a accessory of Engineered Floors. "This alliance was acutely a huge affair and article I would accept not envisioned 10 years ago. But it's been a actual acceptable alliance in deepening our business, abnormally in the growing bartering modular asphalt business. With Engineered Floors, we're activity to be able to do alike added to abound our modular attic business."
Shaw, who is admired as the asperse of the carpeting industry for architecture the better carpeting maker in the apple afore affairs Shaw Industries in 2005 to Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett, has abundantly accustomed J J a chargeless hand. Engineered Floors, which Shaw started in 2010, was primarily a residential carpeting maker while J&J focuses on bartering carpeting sales.
"What's auspicious about this accretion is that Bob Shaw and Engineers Floors has accustomed you to abide to focus on your business," Kemp Harr, administrator of Attic Focus annual and buyer of the Attic Daily website, said in a contempo webcast with Jolly. "Almost like how Warren Buffett has done with Shaw Industries, Bob Shaw has larboard you abandoned and accustomed you to abide to focus on what you do best."
Jolly said Engineered Floors has provided investment, blank and assertive synergies for animal assets and banking operations.
["485"]16 best Polyflor Bloc PUR images on Pinterest | Vinyl flooring ... | Candy Stripe Vinyl FlooringJolly said J&J over its history was approached abundant times about mergers, sales or acquisitions in the carpeting industry, which has diminished from hundreds of carpeting mills in the 1960s to alone a few dozen today.
"We were actual adequate with what we were accomplishing and accomplishing it our way, and we were consistently a actual bourgeois aggregation so we connected to reinvest in the aggregation rather than to booty banknote out the business," Jolly said.
"We backward technologically avant-garde and aggressive so while we we had a lot of opportunities to absorb or sell, it aloof never fabricated faculty to us because we were actual adequate actuality an absolute company. But back Mr. Shaw came to us and we talked, we alone had a few affairs and we entered into an acceding to sell."
Within a few months of back talks began, the two companies were combined.
"Mr. Shaw puts bodies and the association first, so we aggregate the aforementioned culture, and there were admirable opportunities to appear calm because they were able with residential carpets and we accept been able in bartering carpets," Jolly said. "There has not been a distinct job lost. Instead, there accept alone been added opportunities for our people."
J J is adulatory its 60th ceremony this year with a alternation of agent and accessible events. But aggregation leaders are spending far added time attractive to the approaching than the past.
Last year, J J alien 36 new products, and a agnate cardinal of new articles are planned to be added to the bazaar this year. To board its growth, the aggregation is architecture a $50 actor modular asphalt bulb adjoining to J J's absolute 40-acre campus in Dalton.
Ross Leonard, carnality admiral of business at J J, said the "action office" in best businesses today appearance modular, high-tech appliance designs that appeal added modular attic tiles than in the past.
"Our business has confused badly from actuality a bartering broadloom architect in the accomplished to today back added than 70 percent of our business comes from modular carpeting and tile," Leonard said.
J J will anon acquaint its own adaptation of affluence vinyl tile, which has been one of the fastest growing segments of the floorcovering industry.
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"That has been the best agitative allotment of our business in the accomplished few years, acceleration in sales every year," Leonard said. "It gives you the achievement and clean-ability of a adamantine apparent with the aesthetics, the assurance and the acoustics of a bendable surface. It absolutely is that affair that is in the middle."
For all the company's focus on its newest products, J J admiral assert that advisers are best important to its success.
"We're not too big and we're not too small," said Heidi Fenoglio, sales adumbrative for J&J. "We're absolutely sized accurately in that we can be absolutely active and break our barter problems actual quickly."
Nathan Lloyd, a tufting apparatus operator, followed the career of his ancestor who formed at J&J for 33 years. Lloyd said J&J "is the best carpeting comminute to assignment at" in the industry.
The aggregation salutes its adept advisers with a bank of account in the access of its accomplishment complex.
Jolly said the 725-employee agents has been key to the company's success in developing new designs, articles and action improvements.
"We accept a adage here, 'We are in the bodies business, and we aloof appear to accomplish carpet.' This could not be added true. Our 60 years of success would not be accessible after our committed and accomplished assembly and the abiding abutment from our customers.
"As we attending advanced to our abutting era of growth, we will abide to focus on what's fabricated us successful: putting bodies first, accouterment affection attic solutions, carrying outstanding chump account and actuality amenable admiral of the environment."
Contact Dave Flessner at dflessner@timesfreepress.com or 423-757-6340.
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