Entrepreneur launches new residential flooring business in Cheshire
19th June 2009 | retail | Flooring supplier Barefoot is to open a north west showroom this weekend – in doing so becoming one of the first firms to showcase resin floors to the end consumer.
Dawn Gibbins MBE, who owns Barefoot, sold her $85m turnover industrial and commercial floor firm Flowcrete to American company RPM International last year.
The showroom, branded Floor Couture, is based near Congleton in Cheshire and could be joined by another in the London area within the next 12 months.
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