Wheat Inducted Into WFCA Hall of Fame

Chattanooga, TN, May 1, 2008--Terry Wheat, a pioneering retailer and entrepreneur who has been successful in two connected but very different ventures was inducted last night into the World Floor Covering Association (WFCA) Flooring Industry Hall of Fame.

Wheat is CEO of Wheat’s Carpet One In Tuscaloosa, Ala. and president and CEO of RFMS Inc., a key flooring industry software developer.

Wheat founded Wheat’s Carpet One in 1969 at age 21. The operation began out of the kitchen of his rented house in west Alabama.

Wheat’s store became the incubator and continues today to serve as the developmental laboratory for what would become Wheat’s greatest contribution to the flooring industry—a thoroughly integrated software package for his company. That was the genesis of RFMS. Inc.

In less than 10 years RFMS usage grew from four clients to over 1,100 clients.

Today, RFMS is recognized as the leading provider of business management and software solutions for the floor covering industry, with 2,000 clients, representing more than 5,000 store locations and more than $6 billion in annual sales.