Mohawk Industries

Mohawk Industries is the kind of flooring manufacturer people meet through carpet, tile and other hard-surface products in homes, offices and big commercial spaces. By our assessment, it is good at scale and at breadth: the company covers a lot of the flooring chain rather than a single niche line. The downside is that flooring is a rough, cyclical business, tied to construction and renovation, and it is never a glamorous category. In practice that means a business built on materials, factories and distribution, not on flashy consumer branding. It sits in the same broad world as other building-products suppliers, and the name carries more weight with contractors and property people than with casual shoppers. The country note places Mohawk Industries in the United States, and that plain industrial profile is exactly what it is.