Our History

Floor Depot was established in 2001 in Malaysia. The first showroom was situated in Puchong, Selangor with a total number of two salespersons and one storekeeper. It started with a single type of wood flooring called Laminated Floorboard imported from Germany.

When Floor Depot first entered the market, it faced strong competition from the traditional supply chain in the market in terms of pricing and distribution channel. As the management foresaw the market demands in retailing and end-user market for reliable and easy access channels, the investment in A&P was then concentrated on trade brand building. The ultimate objective is to make the brand Floor Depot as a reliable benchmark wood flooring specialist in Malaysia’s home improvement and renovation industry.

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Thursday, April 9, 2009

The Product

For the natural hardwood flooring category, 5R interlocking hardwood was designed to achieve environmentally-friendly, guilt-free and future value wooden flooring solution to its users.

The chamwood composite flooring was designed to offer "100% peace of mind" flooring solution. This means it solves wooden flooring’s natural weakness – water damage and termite threats are a thing of the past.

A special innovation for the laminate flooring category is the introduction of PEC technology for all the Floor Depot premium series in 2009.

Things you didn’t know about Floor Depot …

- Floor Depot helps people save time with its interlocking wood flooring system. It only takes 8 to 10 hours to complete an area of 500sqft. Customers can even walk on the floor immediately after installation.

- Floor Depot provides a healthy solution with comfortable, ‘non-fatigue’ walking experience on its wood flooring. Furthermore, its cushioned surface helps absorb impact from falls, making it safer for children and elderly.
- Floor Depot encourages an eco-friendly life as it focuses on select grown timber and choosing sustainable wood as its core material certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) to produce a lasting wooden floor.

- Floor Depot has a wide spectrum of wood flooring collections and as many as over 160 colours for mix and match of any interior theme.

- The company has an experienced team of 150 installers who deliver quality workmanship for both residential and commercial flooring.

- Floor Depot promoted and distributed free reusable tote bags to the public during its ground events to encourage less usage of plastic bags. Since 2006, a total of 200,000 reusable tote bags have been distributed.

- Floor Depot’s product packaging is recyclable and the company opens carton boxes on site, collects them back and sends them to the recycle centre.

Promotion

Floor Depot promotes itself via a variety of media including print media (magazine and newsprint), mail-drop, bank card privileges, outdoor advertising (billboard, bus ads, transport wrapping, and TV broadcast (home makeover programme sponsorship, ie: Casa Impian) It also participates in industrial trade shows , home exhibitions and organises joint promotions, such as a loyalty programme with Bonuslink.

In 2007, Floor Depot launched its ‘Floor & Fly’ lucky draw campaign over a six-month period. The total prizes worth RM60,000 consisted of a trip for two to Paris, Australia, Korea, Beijing and other Southeast Asian countries.

Lately, the company has been trying to reduce CO2 emission and introducing ‘shopping without travelling’ activities where it will use a virtual platform for promotion activities. For example, it uses Youtube to share and post videos on Floor Depot’s customers’ buying experience. The company is also upgrading an integrated homepage to initiate e-showroom and e-payment for online purchases soon.

Brand Values

FLOOR DEPOT is a renowned brand committed to the sustainability of the environment. It embodies our corporate philosophy of preserving the precious environment that we live in based on the S.H.E. (SAVE, HEALTHY and ECO-FRIENDLY) Flooring Concept. The brand promises efficient and reliable services on delivering the S.H.E flooring concept product and experience. Floor Depot’s S.H.E Flooring logo features a few leaves that represent an environmentally friendly message.

Floor Depot believes that the wooden flooring product’s emotional quality is far greater than the functional quality. For instance, qualities like ‘feel-good’ and ‘guilt-free’ are far more important than ‘durability’ in wooden flooring industries as this industry has always been associated to its contribution to deforestation and global warming. Hence, Floor Depot’s S.H.E. flooring concept aims to do away with such negative perception.