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About Shaw Industries, Inc.

Shaw Industries, Inc. is a New York Stock Exchange company headquartered in Dalton, Georgia. It is the largest tufted carpet manufacturer in the world, with 53 U.S. manufacturing plants in 26 communities in five different states. There are also 18 service distribution centers spread accross the United States. While the tufted carpet industry is relatively young (first manufactured in the early 1950s), consolidated growth has been the pattern in this competitive industry where sales have reached 1.7 billion square yards annually. There were 300 or more competitors in the industry in 1980, but now domestic manufacturers number less than 130.

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