World Floor Covering Association Buys Certified Floorcovering Installers

Dalton, GA, August 25, 2015—The World Floor Covering Association (WFCA) has announced that it will add Certified Floorcovering Installers (CFI) under the WFCA umbrella and provide the infusion of capital necessary to continue and expand CFI’s installation training and certification programs.

The decision to make the investment and add CFI to WFCA was unanimously voted on by the WFCA Board and CFI Executive Committee at recent meetings.

WFCA and CFI are longtime partners with a relationship extending back more than two decades.  Historically WFCA has helped spread awareness of CFI's training programs and has funded hundreds of installation classes and workshops across the country.

The CFI name will be retained and used for the expanded programs, and newly appointed CEO of CFI Robert Varden will take on the role of vice president of the CFI division, which will oversee the existing and expanded certification training programs.

To accommodate its growing divisions, WFCA opened an office and training facility in Lenexa, Kansas that will house staff from both organizations including Tom Jennings, WFCA’s vice president of professional development and many CFI employees.

In addition to the new Lenexa facility, CFI will be opening a brand new 10,000 square foot installation training facility in Dallas, Texas that will be able to accommodate workshops and classes for all types and levels of installation training and certification. The school is slated to open its doors in late September of this year.

Students from as far away as Brazil are already enrolling in the school. The Dallas location is projected to be the first leg of a larger plan to bring CFI training and certification to other markets across the U.S.