Company Profile Floorworld, focus on community

With decades of experience and 43 current locations across Australia, Floorworld members are naturally bound to their local communities. In addition to offering many of Australia’s leading flooring products, Floorworld commits to a generous School Sponsorship Program, and Pancare; a foundation devoted to supporting families, and funding cancer research.

All Floorworld stores are locally owned and operated by dedicated, passionate flooring experts, giving their customers access to the best range and the right advice at a competitive price point. Floorworld members benefit from the group’s buying strength and business support. Many Floorworld stores are long-term familyowned and some on their third generation. Family businesses dominate lists of the longest lasting companies in the world and are a leading source of jobs and economic growth.

Floorworld celebrates its 32nd anniversary in 2023. It started simply when seven retailers in Melbourne thought it was a good idea to get together to buy stock and distribute it amongst themselves. Doug Trickey, Robert Levin, Greg Smith, Billy Tsapataris, Kevin McAuliffe, Angela Bridgeman, Gary Breen, Alan Nolan, and several other independent retailers established a buying group called Floorworld in 1989-90. Organically, other retailers joined, and from being predominately a Victorian and Tasmanian buying group, it is now a 43-strong retail group with stores in Western Australia, South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales and the ACT.

Australia First

Floorworld’s products and services include Australia’s leading brands as well as their own exclusive ranges, and connect the desirable properties of user-comfort, durability and environmental sustainability. Partner brands include Airstep, Australian Select Timbers, Beaulieu, Clever Choice, Clix, Dunlop Flooring, Feltex, Floating Floors, Gerflor, Godfrey Hirst, Imagine Floors (Airstep), mFLOR, Pegulan, Polyflor, Quick-Step, Redbook and Redbook Green, Signature, Titan, and Victoria Carpets.

Where something is made matters. Around 70% of Floorworld’s products are Australianmade and the demand for local product has increased considerably since the lessons of the recent pandemic. The Floorworld group has a significant bulk buying power that benefits their members. Floorworld partners with a number of Australian owned or operated suppliers who not only produce high quality products, but also support their local communities and stimulate the Australian economy through the creation of local jobs, both now and in the generations to come.