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USFloors Earns First-Ever Children & Schools Certification for Bamboo Flooring

Dec. 14, 2009

By Bruce Brigham

Design magazines are filled with pictures of beautiful stores that win awards all the time. But beautiful stores go out of business every day (I have designed a few myself). “Beautiful” doesn’t necessarily ring the cash register. Beautiful doesn’t necessarily grow a brand. So what does?

 

I’ve spent the last 20 years trying to figure that question out. I started my interior design career as a designer of retail store prototypes. Today, I have my own retail brand development and management consulting firm. Here is what I have learned...

 

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USFloors Earns First-Ever Children & Schools Certification for Bamboo Flooring
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