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Howard Brodsky is co-founder, chairman, and co-chief executive officer of CCA Global Partners. With annual sales of $10.2 billion, CCA Global companies collectively have nearly 3,600 locations in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Since the company was established in 1984, it has never endured an unprofitable quarter, recording more than 88 consecutive quarters of profitability. CCA Global is comprised of 15 affiliated companies, including Carpet One Floor & Home, FloorExpo, Flooring America, Stone Mountain Flooring Outlet/GCO Flooring Outlet/The Floor Trader, International Design Guild, Lenders One, Lighting One, ProSource, Rug Décor, Flooring Canada and The Biking Solution. In the past eight years, CCA Global’s retail sales have increased by 325%. Brodsky began his entrepreneurial career after graduating from Wesleyan University with a degree in economics. He joined the family business, Dean’s Carpet in Manchester, New Hampshire, and quickly grew it into one of the largest carpet stores in New England. In 1980, he helped to create the American Floorcovering Association, a national trade group now named the World Floor Covering Association, which has gone on to become the industry’s largest advocacy organization representing floor covering retailers, manufacturers and distributors across the globe. He was elected president and later served as chairman. In 1984, Brodsky and fellow floor covering leader Alan Greenberg had a vision: to dominate the floor covering market by creating a unique solution that would allow independent carpet retailers to operate profitably in an increasingly competitive marketplace. Within just one year, they achieved their goal and made floor covering history with the launch of Carpet One Floor & Home as the first unit of CCA Global Partners. Initially, there were only 13 Carpet One Floor & Home members today there are more than 1,000. | 