Carpet Ride

  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 7:35 a.m. June 22, 2012
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The first time Rufus Ashby rapidly grew a flooring and carpet business, in the 1990s, a corporate parent that expanded too fast for its own good stained his future.

 

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