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Exclusive: One on one with ‘Mr.’ Shaw

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Last year EF had a record year in terms of sales. million houses in 2005. If you’re Shaw Industries, spending a billion dollars when you were nylon to put it into polyester and then your sales are going to go down after you do that—well, that’s a hard sell to Warren Buffet. Their equipment was designed to make white yarns.

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Looking back: Don Finkell

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I said, “If you really want to increase production, let me put in the part that we’re grading out because it doesn’t meet your standards.” We had a group of designers that came in from Southern California sometime after. It was some- thing the sales associate could tell people. They asked me to come to San.