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December 6, 2018
The Floor Covering Industry Foundation (FCIF) is there when its needed most. Just ask Rene Peterson who worked for Taylor Carpet One for 10 years as…
August 16, 2018
Meet James. At age 48, James Marx, a single father of two teenage girls, had a severe heart attack that left him in the hospital for days and…
July 24, 2018
The Floor Covering Industry Foundation—or FCIF, as it is often referred. I think many of us on the FCIF board take for granted the number of people…
May 30, 2018
[Dalton] After 22 years of operation, the Nebraska Iowa Floor Covering Association (NIFCA) board voted to disband their organization, a local…
March 15, 2018
The Floor Covering Industry Foundation (FCIF) has been assisting members of the flooring industry since it was chartered in 1981. It serves as a…
January 19, 2018
Andrea Dobbins — the first executive director the Floor Covering Industry Foundation (FCIF) has ever had — described the foundation as a “reset…
November 27, 2017
We have new faces in town everyday — engineers, educators, medical associates, business professionals and others choosing to make Dalton their…
September 22, 2017
There’s nothing special about 36. I am at that stage of life that is past young adulthood. I don’t know if I identify with ‘middle-aged’, but I guess…
August 25, 2017
Entrepreneur. Leader. Philanthropist. Meet Alan Greenberg, the namesake of the 15th Annual Alan Greenberg Charity Golf Tournament which is scheduled…
July 24, 2017
On Tuesday, I had the opportunity to visit with Don and Emily Finkell, two local entrepreneurs. Win-Win-Win. That’s how CEO Don Finkell describes his…