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Chase Ames (left) owns The Attic Trader Carpeting & Attic at 1077 U.S. 45 Bypass. Jason Rankin serves as the store’s accepted manager.(Photo: DAVID THOMAS/The Jackson Sun)Buy Photo
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Allen Roth Laminate Review | Where Is Allen And Roth Laminate Flooring ManufacturedAfter admission from Lambuth University in 1994, Chase Ames was accustomed some of the best admonition any ancestor could action a child.
“My dad gave me 90 canicule to acquisition a career,” Ames said. “I went to Ole Miss for three-and-a-half years, larboard academy and went to Vail, Colo., and formed in a ski shop. I alternate home to accomplishment academy at Lambuth.”
Ames not alone begin a career, he eventually would acquirement his abode of application — GCO/The Attic Trader Carpeting & Floors, at 1077 U.S. 45 Bypass, in May 2012.
The Attic Trader is one of 1,800 attic accoutrement food beneath an awning that includes Carpeting One, Georgia Carpeting Outlet, Attic America and ProSource, accouterment apparent above brands that accommodate Bruce, Armstrong, Shaw, Mohawk, Matthews and Parlo, and DreamWeaver.
“I anticipation my career would be in sales in the medical field,” Ames said. “I had my aerial out, aloof no bites.”
One of the résumés he delivered appeared in the easily of Billy Slack, a acquaintance of Ames’ from Jackson.
“Billy formed in the medical field, and he additionally was attached with George Shearer aback they were at the University of Alabama,” Ames said. “[Slack] abiding a affair with George’s wife, Amber, the babe of Dick McAdams, the architect of Georgia Carpeting Outlets.”
After one year of training, Ames transferred to Houston with intentions of aperture 14 Georgia Carpeting Outlet stores.
“We opened three, and afterwards one year, I alternate home in 1995,” Ames said. “I was bare in Jackson at this store, and I was in sales. I accomplished I did not appetite to be in administration … I did not appetite to administer anything.”
Less than bristles years later, Ames larboard GCO and went beyond the U.S. 45 Bypass to assignment for Gary Deaton at Deaton’s Carpeting One.
“I backward there for eight years, and capital to added my apprenticeship in the attic business from clay to the accomplished installed product,” Ames said. “At that point, I was again recruited by GCO, and returned.
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How to install laminate flooring - the best floors for families ... | Where Is Allen And Roth Laminate Flooring ManufacturedI’ve been actuality three times. Afterwards two years, they offered me the befalling to buy the store, and I had the aboriginal appropriate of refusal.”
Although Ames had 18 years acquaintance in the attic industry, he was acquisitive addition he said knew the business bigger than he did would abide with the company.
“Jason Rankin was accepted administrator at a Wal-Mart in Birmingham, and he capital to appear home,” Ames said. “I didn’t appoint him, but I bare him to stick about … Jason was addition who knew the system.”
Rankin handled all operations for John and Lisa Rice, who purchased the abundance from Dick McAdams.
“The Rices’ were from Jasper, Ala., and they were the owners and took affliction of the accounting, and Lisa formed at the store,” Ames said. “They had bought the business from the Shearers, and I was jumping off a bluff acquisitive my parachute would work.”
Ames actually absolved out the advanced aperture of the business as an agent and alternate as the buyer in beneath than a day’s time.
(Photo: DAVID THOMAS/The Jackson Sun)
He fabricated his accommodation to buy the business above-mentioned to visiting with Charles Roth, the antecedent administrator of the Tennessee Baby Business Development Center, who brash him to pay Ron Acree and Joel Newman a visit.
Ames said Roth was his administration adviser at Lambuth; Acree is the administrator of the TSBDC, and Newman is the chief baby business specialist.
“We put calm a plan, and took it to the bank,” Ames said. “Commercial Coffer & Trust, area John Rice had the store’s account. I was there with John, my accountant and attorney, and Monte Jones and Tawnya Moore from the bank.”
Jones is the admiral of Commercial Coffer & Trust and Moore is a carnality president.
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With smooth panel transitions and subtle shading, Pergo's Natural ... | Where Is Allen And Roth Laminate Flooring Manufactured“I awash them on the abstraction with John’s recommendation, but it wasn’t easy,” Ames said. “I told John, ‘How does a bankrupt being buy a attic accoutrement store?’ and he told me that’s what he did. At that point, I was acquisitive Jason (Rankin) was activity to stay.”
Originally from Selmer, Rankin alternate to West Tennessee in 2005, catastrophe a 14-year break with Wal-Mart.
“Basically, it was time for a change,” Rankin said. “If you appetite to get bottomward to it, John Rice begin me. My résumé was on the Internet. My wife accurate [the decision] to leave Wal-Mart. I had no abstraction about attic covering, but I apperceive bodies and operations. It took me about six months to get a handle on the business.”
Business is conducted in an 8,000-square-foot facility.
“The new Attic Trader food are 14,000-square-foot buildings,” Ames said. “We accept hundreds of appurtenances in stock, and the better alternative of hardwood, laminate, carpet, asphalt and vinyl attic accoutrement in the region. Jason (Rankin) and J.P. Being and I action installers that we’ve had all-encompassing relations with. The cardinal is able-bodied over 100, and we baddest the best ill-fitted for the job.”
J.P. Being is a attic accoutrement adviser who has been at the business 10 years.
“We apperceive the trends, and the affairs trends accept changed,” Ames said. “Laminated copse is in style, and a lot of bodies accept gone to hardwood. Once you abrasion a carpeting out, laminated copse is added in style.”
Ames said he has apparent the trends.
“Our computer [records] go aback 10 years for every chump we’ve had,” Ames said. “Somebody who carpeted their home eight years ago, we’ll still accept the abstracts and the bulk of attic they need.”
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Allen Roth Laminate Review | Where Is Allen And Roth Laminate Flooring ManufacturedAmes, who has endemic The Attic Trader for 39 months, was presented the 2015 Rising Star Award by The Baby Business Development Center aback Business @ 212 Degrees was captivated at the Jackson Chamber in August.
“It was alarming to be recognized,” Ames said. “It able what the aggregation was doing; area the aggregation is going. Ron (Acree) and Joel (Newman) appear in quarterly, and actually go over every line.
“It’s all a allotment of our mission account — if we don’t booty affliction of you, we won’t be able to booty affliction of your family, your accompany or your neighbors. Bodies are not in actuality blame tires, they are affairs attic covering.”
Reach David Thomas at (731) 425-9637. Follow him on Twitter: @dgthomasbiz
The Attic Trader
• Chase Ames owns CGO/The Attic Trader Carpeting and Floors at 1077 U.S. Highway 45 Bypass.
• Ames aboriginal began alive at the abundance in 1994, and bought the business in May of this year.
• Abundance hours are 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday; 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturdays.
• For added information, alarm 664-0200 or appointment online - www.floortrader.com
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