The Marble Institute of America (MIA) has extended the deadline for participating in its annual Fabricator Benchmarking Survey. The new deadline to participate is December 15, and those interested may get more information or participate in the survey HERE. Participants will receive financial benchmarks and metrics for their business in … Read more
Schneider Stone, located in Asheboro, N.C., is a fabricator of custom natural stone and quartz. The company had been operating for six years when Paul Boger and his brother Brian, both employees, purchased the business. About 85 percent of Schneider Stone’s business comes from the residential sector, and the other … Read more
Schneider Stone, located in Asheboro, N.C., is a fabricator of custom natural stone and quartz. The company had been operating for six years when Paul Boger and his brother Brian, both employees, purchased the business. About 85 percent of Schneider Stone’s business comes from the residential sector, and the other … Read more
Hunter Adams, owner of Trindco, understands that success can be more easily achieved when the employer and the employees are all working towards identical goals. Adams has put a system into place for his installers whereby they are evaluated through the use of metrics in order to increase efficiency and … Read more
Incounters is a family-owned countertop fabricator that also “played a key role” in the development of PhotoTop, the popular digital measurement and templating system. The company is headquartered in Abilene, Texas, and is a founding member of the Artisan Group. However, another interesting innovation of Incounters is its system for … Read more
Patrick McGrath began working with solid surface in 1984 as an employee of Bingley Son & Follet, one of the world’s largest Corian fabricators at the time. However, he soon recognized that the business was not operating very efficiently, so he formed a partnership with David Axworthy, another employee of … Read more
Innovative Surfaces, headquartered in Hastings, Minn., has been serving commercial and residential clients as a granite, solid surface and quartz fabricator in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area for more than 30 years and is now a multimillion-dollar business. The company was founded by Bruce Akins, who is still president, while … Read more
The Artisan Group, a collection of countertop fabricators that work together to cover most of the United States and Canada, have brought on two new board members for 2014. The new members are Scott Lardner, owner of Rocky Mountain Stone in Albuquerque, N.M., and former MIA president, and Hunter Adams, … Read more
Sims-Lohman has worked hard to develop a reputation for quick turnaround on customer orders. Each order is guaranteed to be completed and installed within five days regardless which of the 12 locations in four states is taking the order and no matter how busy the schedule is at the time. … Read more
A little more than 14 years ago, Aspen Countertops realized extraordinary success in the homebuilder market, but owners Clark Taylor and Matt Pearson were not convinced that their business had reached its apex. Instead, Taylor and Pearson decided that it was time to diversify in a bid to expand the reach … Read more