European Parquet Association Changes Name

The Netherlands, Jan. 12, 2010--After exactly 20 years of existence the members of the Euparal Association have decided to change their name to the Global Flooring Alliance.

The organization is an association of European parquet importers and distributors.

“After twenty years it’s good to reflect. Markets have changed but also the Association has changed within this period,” says Carlo Cavinato, who has taken over the Euparal presidency from Bjarne Pedersen in 2009 and will be de facto the first GFA president.

Global Flooring Alliance will officially present itself at Domotex.

In 1989 a group of four parquet importers and distributors founded the international organization Euparal. Trading in a ‘new’ European market with open boundaries they foresaw the need for exchanging information and assisting each other in coping with the changed market circumstances.

"With Global Flooring Alliance we want to make a statement we see ourselves as a global organization which welcomes new members from countries worldwide,” Cavinato said.

The aims of the association are to promote parquet in general and to exchange product, market and technical information.