Lumber Liquidators
 Lumber Liquidators is an American retailer of hardwood flooring. It was started in 1993 by Tom Sullivan a building contractor who began purchasing excess wood from other companies. He then resold the wood from the back of a trucking firms yard in Stoughton Massachusetts. Three years later in 1996 the company found their niche market in hardwood flooring. On January 5 1996 the first store opened in West Roxbury Massachusetts and sold 150 sq ft of floors on the first day.