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Shaw Industries is a flooring manufacturer headquartered in Dalton, Georgia. It agreed to be...

Shaw Industries is a flooring manufacturer headquartered in Dalton, Georgia. It agreed to be acquired by Berkshire Hathaway in 2000. As of 2006, it employed 32,000 people in the USA and Canada. It is considered the largest broadloom carpet maker in the world. Shaw Industries is not related to The Shaw Group, a publicly-traded company in Baton Rouge, LA. Shaw got its start in 1946 as Star Dye Company, a small business that dyed tufted scatter rugs. The events that transformed the company into the world's largest carpet manufacturer are too numerous to write...or even to be fully known. The philosophy guiding those events, i.e. meeting customers, determine their needs, and supplying those needs, hasn't changed much through the years. Clarence Shaw, father of CEO Robert E. (Bob) Shaw and J.C. (Bud) Shaw, bought Star Dye Company in 1946. In 1958, Bob Shaw became CEO of the company, which was then jointly owned by the two brothers. With $300,000 in sales, the company expanded dramatically and soon started finishing carpet as Star Finishing Company. In 1967, J.C. Shaw organized a holding company to acquire Philadelphia Carpet Company, founded in 1846. The holding company added Star