What is Lumber Liquidators?
Lumber Liquidators is a publicly held company that sells environmentally-friendly hardwood flooring. The company is able to offer low-price hardwood flooring because they purchase an entire year of production directly from the mills. Lumber Liquidators has a large assortment of hardwood flooring for residential and commercial construction.
Company History and Facts
- Lumber Liquidators was founded by a building contractor named Tom Sullivan in 1993. Sullivan started his company by selling excess wood in Stoughton, Massachusetts.
- Sullivan opened the first store in 1996 in West Roxbury, Massachusetts.
- Lumber Liquidators now has over 200 stores nationwide with more planned openings.
- To be closer to a port, the company moved its headquarters from Boston to Colonial Heights, Virginia, in 1999. Due to limited space, the headquarters were moved to a 306,000 square-feet distribution center in Toano, Virginia.
- According to its website, Lumber Liquidators’ flooring has been used in the homes of the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Donald Trump, Angelina Jolie and others.
- Lumber Liquidators supports the Ronald McDonald House Charities, the Eric Weihenmayer School Tours, the National Braille Press and the Richmond MS Walk.
Company Products
- Lumber Liquidators sells a variety of hardwoods for flooring, including prefinished domestic and exotic, unfinished, engineered, laminates, bamboo and cork flooring. It also offers moldings, noise-reducing underlay and adhesives for installation.
- The company is respectful of the environment as it only buys from suppliers who practice sustainable harvesting.
- Lumber Liquidators also sells their products through their official website.