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nowing when to change course is a key component to success for any business. Mountain Top Floors provides a great example of a company with the keen insight to know when to refocus the direction of their business.
Mountain Top Floors, a company based in Naperville, Illinois, began in 2015, suppling wholesalers (such as Home Depot) with hardwood flooring. However, it was growing harder to make a good profit margin due to heavy antidumping duty on wood floor related products. So, in 2018 they changed course. Now they source logs and provide related supply chain solutions to their customers from North America to China and other Asian countries. It was a good move too – their total export volume was approximately 4,200 forty-foot containers of logs and lumber in 2019. Mountain Top sources logs and lumber from suppliers from all over North America. Their export covers major U.S. and Canada ports and rail ramps. The company has an interesting concept when it comes to helping others understand what they do. They call it TAAS, “Trading As A Service.” They define TAAS by the way they connect and deliver what their customers need. They source the type of logs and lumber that are
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