Kansas City, Mo.—Vinnie Virga, industry veteran, signed a 30 year franchise agreement to open a minimum of 17 new Big Bob’s flooring retail stores in New England and upstate New York.
This makes Virga the single largest franchisee in the Big Bob’s organization, which prior to this agreement had 35 stores in total. The next largest Big Bob’s franchisee has five stores.
Virga selected Big Bob’s from all of the partnership options based on his belief that the biggest potential for growth in the specialty retail flooring sector is in the value side of the market.
Virga last served as president of Flooring America, a tenure that lasted 13 years. Previous to his time at Flooring America, he was vice-president of Dalene Flooring in Hartford, Conn. At the same time, he revitalized a single Pro-Source Showroom franchise into a five-store chain. Prior to that, he was president of Pro-Source Wholesale Floorcoverings of St. Louis. He also spent time working with Marv Berlin of New York Carpet World.
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