Prior to year 2000, the closet industry consisted of the franchises and the other guys. Trying to pull this industry together was like herding cats, until a chance encounter at the Hafele booth at IWF-1998 when Mike Carson saw Closet written on Jeff Klein’s name badge, and visa-verse. Read the rest of the story

If you trust economists, which I don’t, they say that since 1930, North American recessions have occurred every 58 months, almost every 5 years.  If you believe our latest recession ended in September 2009, which I don’t, we are overdue for the next one.  I don’t believe we have fully recovered from the last one.   Is our closet industry experiencing the beginning of another recession right now? You don’t know and neither do I, but we are about to find out.