Profile
In 1967, Rod Berle started his flooring business, Contract Carpet Corporation, with $5000 and one key associate, Sandy Rose Schuman. The company's first location was the Union Bank Building on the corner of Ventura and Sepulveda Boulevards in Los Angeles, California. This location proved to be serendipitous, since the newly formed Contract Carpet was next door to real estate developer Donald Bren, now chairman of The Irvine Company - one of Contract Carpet's earliest (and continuing) customers.