History
24 Years of Growth, Success, Expansion and Profitability
CCA GLOBAL PARTNERS BEGAN AS A HANDFUL OF INDEPENDENTLY OWNED SPECIALTY CARPET RETAILERS, AND EXPANDED THROUGH THE SHARED VISION OF TWO LEADERS IN THE FLOOR-COVERING INDUSTRY: HOWARD BRODSKY AND ALAN GREENBERG.
As we look to the future with excitement and optimism, we remain proud of our history, and our evolution as a management and marketing company now involved in four industries: flooring, mortgage banking, lighting products, and biking.
- CCA Global Partners’ Howard Brodsky Awarded Business NH Magazine’s Business Leader of the Year Award
- CCA Global Partners’ New Division – Lionsbridge Contractor Group – Bridges Gap Between Policyholders, Insurance Companies, and Contractors
- CCA Global Partners Seizes New Opportunity in Community Management - Establishes Innovia Community Management Cooperative
- CCA Global Partners launches Choose-A-Coop movement to help focus consumer knowledge of the impact of local, independent cooperatives.
- CCA Global Partners celebrates its 25th Anniversary
- Howard Brodsky and Alan Greenberg inducted into the Cooperative Hall of Fame.
- CCA Global Partners acquires MainStreet Business Services.
- Carpet One Floor & Home announces the relaunch of 180-year-old Bigelow™ Carpet Collection
- BizUnite launches its Independent Business Platform, a tool that helps independent businesses compete with their larger competitors.
- CCA Global Partners® announces Rick Bennet as new Co-CEO.
- CCA Global Partners announces with great sadness that Alan Greenberg, Co-founder, Co-Chairman, and Co-CEO of CCA Global Partners, passed away August 28, 2007 after a courageous battle with cancer.
- CCA Global Partners and FCIF rename the annual Golf Tournament in honor of Alan Greenberg.
- CCA Global Partners makes a pledge to be an environmentally conscious company with the launch of the “Green Select” initiative, committing to better the environment through their relationships with their member community, suppliers and employees.
- CCA Global Partners holds its first-ever Global Summit with business owners and executives from all of its 14 divisions.
- CCA Global Partners Online Universities are the first and only venue to offer WFCA certification courses in an e-format.
- CCA Global Partners is listed as the number one Floor Covering Retailer, above Home Depot and Lowe’s on HFN magazine’s list of the Top 150 Specialty Retailers.
- CCA Global Partners creates the CCA Relief Fund. Its mission is to provide assistance to employees of CCA members and franchisees victimized by natural disasters.
- Flooring America® joins forces with the American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women movement.
- Howard Brodsky and Alan Greenberg are named two of the home furnishing industry’s “Power 100” by HFN magazine.
- CCA Global Partners obtains exclusive rights to Anderson Hardwood Floors’ new Biltmore Estate for Your Home Collection.
- Carpet One Floor & Home® launches Carpet One Welcomes Your Support to raise funds for breast cancer research and awareness.
- CCA Global Partners expands into the biking industry with a new affiliated company, The Biking SolutionTM.
- CCA Global Partners starts a charity golf tournament for the Floor Covering Industry Foundation.
- Carpet One announces Good Housekeeping® branded carpet.
- An alliance is created between CCA Global Partners and the United Kingdom’s Associated Independent Stores Limited (AIS); the result is Flooring One®.
- Carpet One announces a working relationship with global fashion company Liz Claiborne® and debuts the Liz Claiborne Home collection.
- Carpet Co-op of America changes its name to CCA Global Partners.
- America’s Carpet Gallery operations merge with Flooring America operations.
- CCA Global Partners acquires certain assets of national lighting company Ilucio and forms Lighting One®.
- Carpet Co-op of America acquires Rug Décor®, Lenders One®, and a majority interest in FloorExpo®.
- Carpet Co-op of America purchases certain assets of franchisors Flooring America and Flooring Canada, which are recast as a cooperative.
- Stone Mountain’s Carpet Mill Outlet acquires the franchise of 93 units of GCO Carpet Outlet.
- In 1996, Carpet One again expands internationally to include licensees in New Zealand.
- Carpet Co-op of America purchases America’s Carpet Gallery in 1998.
- In 1999, Carpet One acquires the exclusive license to LEES For Living®.
- International Design Guild® is established to serve the fashion and interior design market.
- Carpet One celebrates its 10th anniversary with 525 retail store members, which have aggregate annual sales of $1.5 billion.
- Carpet One expands internationally with Carpet One Canada.
- Carpet One acquires the exclusive licensing rights to Bigelow® —one of the industry’s most powerful brands.
- Stone Mountain’s Carpet Mill Outlet, which serves the consumer seeking value and quality, debuts.
- Australia’s InCarpets becomes Carpet One’s first non-North American licensee, with 26 stores.
- In 1985, Carpet One is established, with 13 members. By year’s end, retail sales volume for Carpet One’s 26 members reaches $25 million.
- Carpet One members collectively are the nation’s No. 1 floor-covering retail group.
- ProSource® Wholesale Floorcoverings is established in 1991.
- Howard Brodsky and Alan Greenberg establish Carpet Co-op of America.
- Brodsky and Greenberg become Co-Chairmen and Co-CEOs.
- Soon afterward, Sandy Mishkin, the current President of CCA Global Partners, joins the cooperative.
