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Who is Grand Entrance?Grand Entrance has provided entrance flooring and wall protection solutions for many of America's top retailers for over 30 years. Our experience and close working relationships with our clients provide us with a unique understanding of the need of today's retail store. With over 70 patents worldwide, Grand Entrance is an industry leader. But, we are not stopping there. Our research and development facility is constantly working to develop new and innovative solutions for our customers. No matter what your need, Grand Entrance will deliver a product guaranteed to protect and enhance your image.

In April of 1999 Grand Entrance became a part of the Construction Specialties (C/S) Group of Companies. Since it's founding in 1948, C/S Group has established itself as a worldwide leader in production of specialty architectural products. By becoming a member of the C/S family, we further enhance our ability to provide innovative and comprehensive solutions for our customers.

Grand Entrance understands that every retail store is different. That is why we work hard to understand your specific needs, and then develop a comprehensive solution. As a retailer you have spent significant time and money designing the interiors of your store. Grand Entrance will help your image with our complete line of entrance flooring solutions, wall protection products, anti-fatigue flooring, specialty flooring and surface protection products.

Responsive starts with who we are…

• Grand Entrance is the Retail Division ofConstruction Specialties

• Founded in 1948• Global leader in manufacturing of specialty

architectural products• Worldwide locations to support you

Where is Grand Entrance?

GE Headquarters in Frederick, MD New warehouse location in Atlanta, GA

Our Product Categories

1) Acrovyn wall protection (sheets and doors)

2) Entrance Flooring (Mats, Grids, Tiles and Roll Goods)

3) Specialty Flooring (rubber, cork, bamboo, LVT, VCT)

4) Anti-Fatigue Flooring

Many of our products contribute to LEED. This can benefit your franchisees if they are concerned about building “Green”

Why Use Grand Entrance Products?

•Function: Our products are designed to protect your interiors from tracked in dirt and water that can prematurely wear your floor finish and damage your floor. Acrovyn surface protection systems prevent damage to your walls, corners, columns and fixtures. Our products are designed to save you thousands a year in maintenance and repair costs.

•Reduced Liability: By keeping water and dirt off of your floor surface, our entrance flooring products greatly decrease the changes of slipping or falling accidents.

•Enhanced Aesthetics: Not only will our products enhance your image by keeping your surfaces clean and protected, all Grand Entrance products are designed to work within, and ultimately beautify your interior design.

Entrance Flooring Facts•50% of the causes of slip/falls is unsafe or unclean flooring (National Floor Safety).

•According to industry studies, just 1,000 people coming through an entrance over a 20 day work period can track in 24 pounds of dirt (Professional Retail Store Maintenance).

•It costs an average of $600 to remove one pound of dirt after it is tracked throughout a building (ISSA).

•42% of the floor finish can be damaged or removed after 1,500 people have walked within the first 6 feet of an entrance without a matting system (3M Study).

•Slips and falls are the leading cause of occupational accidents and result in more than 300,000 disabling injuries each year (National Safety Council).

Some of Our Current Satisfied Customers

How Can Your Company Benefit from Partnering with Grand Entrance?

How can Grand Entrance…

Enhance Your brand and make it more attractive to customers or franchisees? Specifying Grand Entrance as a National Account Vendor will ensure all stores look the same and get consistent products, colors, services, etc. Not to mention one company to partner with for service, warranty issues, etc.Improve the shopping experience of a customer? Provide a clean, more productive place to be by not only protecting the location, but also increasing it's aesthetics.Increase the revenue of a franchisee's or corporate location? Provide National Prices based on all locations to give you better buying power overall, instead of having the franchises go out and buy on their own.Increase the efficiency of a franchisee, or save them time and headaches? Online ordering for your franchisee to provide one place where they can order, check status, get tracking and where corporate can get an online list of all franchise locations that have ordered, what they ordered, etc.

8 Reasons to Choose Grand Entrance as a Vendor Partner

1) Full Installation Service Available

2) Account Management

3) Always Developing New Solutions

4) Pre-Stocking Program

5) On-Call Technical Staff

6) Excellent Customer Service & Response Time

7) Leader in Green Initiatives

8) World Leader in Architectural Products

Thank You for Your Time!

If you are interested in one or all of our products mentioned, you can contact your Sales Manager Dawn Brunette for product

information, samples and pricing.

Dawn Brunette

Midwest Territory Sales Manager

Office location: Savage, MN

952-226-6733 home office

630-853-9397 cell

dbrunette@c-sgroup.com