Julius 'Bud' Shaw, Founder of Shaw Industries, Dies

Cartersville, GA, Jan. 20, 2015 -- Julius Clarence "Bud" Shaw, age 85, founder of Shaw Industries, died Jan. 16.

He was born in Dalton, Georgia, on December 18, 1929, the oldest of four children to Julius Clarence and Essie Evans Shaw.
 
With a degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology he worked in a management training program with American Thread Company and later joined the I.E. Department of Crown Cotton Mills in Dalton, where he started the carpet yarn division.

Shaw joined Marion Manufacturing Company in 1958 as general manager of Rocky Creek Mills, the carpet yarn division of Marion. In 1959, Rocky Creek Mills and Star Dye Company (a family-owned business) formed Star Finishing Company, and he served as a director.

J. P. Stevens Company purchased Rocky Creek Mills in 1964, and Shaw became general manager of the automotive division. In 1965, he moved to Cartersville, Georgia, with Dan River Carpets as general manager.

He founded Sabre Carpets in 1968 and merged the interests of Star Finishing and Sabre/Philadelphia into Shaw Industries, Inc., where he served as chairman until 1996, when he retired to chairman emeritus.

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