HF Briefs: C & R Flooring Moves to Westwood, Mass.; QEP Rebrands

C & R Flooring Inc. is moving from Needham, Mass., to 378 Washington Street, Westwood, Mass. "We loved Needham, but it was time to purchase our own building and we wanted to stay on the Route 128 loop as well as have easy access to Boston," stated Chris Zizza, president of C&R Flooring. "I was born and raised in Westwood, and C & R's started in Westwood. It feels great to be home again."

QEP Company Inc., parent of Harris Wood Floors and Porta-Nails Inc., has changed its logo for the first time since the company's founding in 1979. While the color scheme remains the same, the new logo is more modern and readable, the company says. As part of the rebranding, QEP is focusing on making its products more ergonomic and making packaging ecologically friendly.

Install Floors introduced its Install Certified Contractors program at the NeoCon expo in Chicago. All Install contractors will be certified and their work will come with a warranty in labor. More information on the certification program and warranty is available here.

Brenco Exotic Woods (Hammond, Ind.) is hiring independent sales reps to serve the Pacific Northwest, southern California, New England, New York City and the mid-Atlantic region, and Bona US is looking for a Tennessee territory manger; for more information, see the HF Classifieds.