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A TALK WITH INTERFACE'S RAY ANDERSON

Since 1994, Ray Anderson, founder and chairman of Interface, Inc., a floor covering manufacturer based in Atlanta, has preached the gospel of sustainability while pursuing an ambitious effort to transform Interface's products, processes and business models to reflect his environmental ethics. In an interview, Anderson takes stock of the past decade's ups and downs: "We've been through the toughest business cycle in our history and we've survived, thanks to sustainability and commitment we've made in this direction. I don't think we would have made it otherwise ... The marketplace in which we operate declined fully 30 percent ... over a five-year period, and it's only just now bottoming out ... We've actually gained market share in that decline and that has come about because of better products and market support ... And better products have come about because our product design people have taken to biomimicry in a big way...[P]robably close to 40 percent of sales are based on products derived from the biomimicry thought process ... We can probably point to at least 20 percent of our sales where we know we got the business because of the sustainability commitment ... Our costs have gone down not up because of sustainability. The waste elimination effort alone has saved us... [c]lose to $250 million over this nine-plus years."
The Green Business Letter, Oct 2004, p 1.
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