Builders Wholesale Carpet
Our History
BWC is very proud of its fourteen-year history because ours is truly a success story. Russell Taylor, our president, began work in the flooring industry as a linoleum installer in 1968. After over two decades in the business, he decided to open his own company which would concentrate on the supply and installation of flooring to the residential home builder. This was in 1992. Russell hired one employee, Kenny Wagster, and took office space in a rundown warehouse building near downtown Columbia.

After fourteen years of hard and smart work, Builders Wholesale Carpet is now doing 30 percent of the new home flooring in South Carolina, with a total of 8000 homes completed in 2005 alone.

How this all happened is our history - a history of concentration on one market, of advancing as rapidly as possible in our use of new technology and methodology, of expansion to new locales along with our customers, and of trusting in the value of improving our performance. We have believed in doing a better job - with every job we do. That has been our history; it has worked for us and our customers. We plan to keep it that way.

Company Timeline

January 1992: Our founder and president Russell Taylor opens Builders Wholesale Carpet's first office in a Columbia warehouse with two employees.

1995: BWC moves to a larger facility on Rivermont Drive in Columbia to accommodate expanding business.

August 1996: Our Hilton Head branch office opens to serve Del Webb during the construction of its Sun City development.

September 1997: Computerized record-keeping streamlines BWC service with the introduction of RFMS programming.

June 2000: A Charleston branch office and warehouse open to service new home builders in the Lowcountry.

March 2002: BWC further expands our service with the opening of a fourth branch office in Myrtle Beach.

January 2003: The corporate and branch offices of BWC in Columbia are moved to a modern facility on Chris Drive.

December 2004: BWC expands to a new, fifth branch office to serve the Greenville/Spartanburg area.

For the third year in a row, BWC is listed in the top one-hundred fastest growing companies in South Carolina.

The Greater Columbia Home Builders Association names BWC Corporate Member of the Year

January 2006: BWC begins the year with groundbreaking for our new office facility in Charleston, which will include a third design center.