Interface Marks 35th Anniversary, Eco Highlights

Atlanta, GA, April 7, 2008-- Sunday marked 35 years since Ray Anderson, founder and chairman of Interface, Inc., brought the concept of carpet tile to the U.S. from Europe to create what would become Interface.

In a message to employees celebrating the company's 35th anniversary, Anderson applauded associates for the company's success and growth and for its progress since the mid-1990s to achieve a more sustainable world.

"We have come a long way since April 6, 1973," Anderson said.

"We not only survived start-up, we went on to thrive." he said. April 6 is celebrated as the company's anniversary because it represents the day, in 1973, when the business plan for the company was fully funded.

What started with Anderson and one other employee in LaGrange, Ga. on April 6, 1973, as an idea for bringing modular carpet, or carpet tiles, to North America from Europe has grown into a global enterprise. Today, Interface, Inc. (Nasdaq: IFSIA), operates on four continents and has sales in more than 100 countries, operating under the brands InterfaceFLOR (modular carpet for commercial market segments), Bentley Prince Street (high end broadloom and modular carpet), and FLORT (modular carpet for the consumer market).

Anderson noted that Interface also exists for a "higher purpose -- and that is for the example we are creating to show the entire industrial world what sustainability is in all of its dimensions: people, processes, products, and place (Mother Earth), as well as profits." That higher purpose didn't emerge until 1994 when Anderson experienced an epiphany after reading Paul Hawken's "The Ecology of Commerce" and realized that his company's "take, make, waste" cycle of manufacturing products was environmentally and fundamentally flawed.

As a result, Anderson and Interface have pioneered the sustainability movement for the industrial world, changing the company's business model in an effort to reduce its environmental impacts.

Anderson told Interface associates that his company is about "halfway toward its goal of climbing Mount Sustainability," or its goal to eliminate any negative impact on the environment by 2020.

"In 2020, Interface will be 47 years old. I will be 86. I hope to live to see the view from the top of Mount Sustainability, and I will be very proud to be standing there with all of you," Anderson told associates. "I think the view will be beautiful beyond description."