Mohawk Industries
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| Public | |
| Traded as | NYSE: MHK |
| Industry | Conglomerate |
| Founded | Amsterdam, New York United States (1878) |
| Headquarters | Calhoun, Georgia, U.S. |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Jeffrey S. Lorberbaum (Chairman & CEO)[1] |
| Products | Flooring |
| Revenue |  $ 5.8 billion (FY 2012)[2] |
| $ 250 million (FY 2012)[3] |
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| Total assets | $ 6.3 billion (FY 2012)[3] |
| Total equity | $ 3.7 billion (FY 2012)[3] |
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Number of employees
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34,200 (December 2015)[4] |
| Website | MohawkInd.com |
Mohawk Industries (NYSE: MHK) is an American flooring manufacturer based in Calhoun, Georgia, USA. Mohawk produces floor covering products for residential and commercial applications in North America and residential applications in Europe. The company manufacturing portfolio consists of soft flooring products (carpet and rugs), hard flooring products (ceramic tile, natural stone and hardwood flooring), laminate flooring, sheet vinyl and luxury vinyl tile. The company employs 34,200 in operations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Europe, India, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia and the United States.
In 2015, Mohawk was recognized as the most used, top brand familiarity, and top quality rating carpet product by the Builder magazine. [5]
History
William Shuttleworth and his four sons arrived in the United States of America in 1875 and set up a carpet mill in the Hudson Valley upon arrival. After William Shuttleworth died, the four sons moved to Amsterdam, New York in 1878 and took over an empty factory there.[6] The company incorporated as the Shuttleworth Brothers Company in 1902.[7]
The company adopted the name Mohawk Carpet Mills (or Mohawk Mills, for short) in 1920, when it merged with McCleary, Wallin and Crouse, another mill in Amsterdam.[8] It became the country's sole weaver to offer an entire line of domestic carpets, also creating the industry's first textured design and sculptured weave.[7]
In 1956, Mohawk Carpet Mills merged with Alexander Smith, Inc. to become Mohasco Industries, which gradually moved manufacturing south into the Carolinas and eventually Georgia. In 1963, the company turned some of its attention to furniture manufacturing.
Carpet manufacturing at the Amsterdam site ended by 1968 and the last corporate offices left by 1987.[6] In 1992, the company went public as Mohawk Industries and through 2003, it continued to acquire and merge many other companies into its conglomerate.[7] Its present CEO is Jeffrey Lorberbaum.
Mohawks brands include are American Olean, Bigelow, Columbia Wood Flooring, Daltile, Durkan, IVC, Karastan, Kerama Marazzi, Lees, Marazzi, Moduleo, Mohawk, Mohawk Home, Pergo, Quick-Step and Unilin.[9]
Mohawk Industries, Inc. v. Carpenter
In 2009, it was involved in the Supreme Court case Mohawk Industries, Inc. v. Carpenter. The court found against Mohawk Industries, in a 9-0 decision.[10]
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