23 Years of Growth, Success, Expansion, and Profitability

CCA GLOBAL PARTNERS BEGAN AS A HANDFUL OF INDEPENDENTLY OWNED SPECIALTY CARPET RETAILERS, AND 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.

• 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, joins the cooperative.

• 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.
   
• In 1988, annual sales volume totals $593 million for Carpet One’s 200 retail locations.
   
• Aggregate annual sales volume for all participating stores reaches $800 million by 1990.
   
• ProSource Wholesale Floorcoverings is established in 1991.
  
  
  

• 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.

• International Design Guild is established to serve the fashion and interior design market.
   
• Carpet One celebrates its 10th anniversary with 525 retail stores, which have aggregate annual sales of $1.5 billion.
   
• Carpet One expands internationally with Carpet One Canada.

• In 1996, Carpet One again expands internationally to include retailers in New Zealand.
   
• Carpet Co-op of America purchases America’s Carpet Gallery in 1998.
   
• Carpet Co-op of America and its affiliated companies now have 1,320 stores in four countries. Stores have aggregate annual sales of $2.4 billion.
   
• In 1999, Carpet One acquires the exclusive license to LEES For Living®.

• 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.
   
• Aggregate annual sales volume for the cooperative’s 2,000 participating stores worldwide exceeds $4 billion.
  
  
  
  

• Carpet Co-op of America changes its name to CCA Global Partners.
   
• America’s Carpet Gallery operations merge with Flooring America operations.
   
• CCA Global acquires certain assets of national lighting company Ilucio and forms Lighting One.

• An alliance is created between CCA Global 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.

• CCA Global expands into the biking industry with a new affiliated company, The Biking Solution.
   
• Carpet One and Good Housekeeping develop two new and exclusive product lines.
  
  

• 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 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.
• The CCA Global website (www.ccaglobal.com) is chosen by The Web Marketing Association to receive the “2005 Webaward” for their outstanding website design from over 2,100 entries in 33 countries.

• CCA Global Online Universities are the first and only venue to offer WFCA certification courses in an e-format.
• BlueLinx Holdings Inc. (NYSE: BXC), a leading distributor of building products in North America, and CCA Global Partners announce a strategic relationship under which BlueLinx will provide CCA Global with comprehensive logistics and product management services for the company’s private label Global Direct flooring product line.
• Carpet One Floor & Home re-launches LEES for Living as Relax, it’s…Lees!® with a new product line.

• 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.
• Flooring America’s Go Red For Women partnership is unveiled to raise funds to fight heart disease.
• With $10.2 billion in aggregate gross sales, CCA Global Partners is a formidable leader in the retail industry. Today, nearly 3,600 retail stores in the United States and abroad benefit from CCA Global’s business leadership through its 15 different affiliate companies. CCA Global’s unique business model promotes entrepreneurship by enabling thousands of independent retailers to compete successfully with large national corporations. CCA Global business owners are currently engaged in the flooring, lighting, mortgage banking and biking industries. CCA Global marks 88 consecutive quarters of profitability.