Milliken and Company Flooring Team Wins Strategic Sales Award

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SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Heidi Burmeister, senior territory sales manager at Milliken & Company was recently announced as a winner of the Starnet Dream Team award in recognition of her teamwork, collaboration, and dynamic sales performance as part of a Starnet Preferred Vendor partnership. This is the seventh consecutive year that a representative from Milliken’s floor covering business has received this recognition.

“Sharing ideas and working together to create more sustainable spaces for people around the world is at the heart of what we do every day here at Milliken,” said Patrick Keese, president of Milliken’s Floor Covering Business. “We are grateful to Starnet for recognizing Heidi and our entire team’s efforts.”

Heidi and her Starnet team member Brian Steadman from Bonitz worked together with the library team to redesign the interior of the Anderson Main Library in Anderson, South Carolina. The library houses over 300,000 items including books, DVDs, audiobooks and music CDs.

At almost 100,000 square feet, the Anderson Main Library building is a display of neoclassical architecture and design. The original interior flooring reflected the exterior architecture with classic damask and filagree patterns in traditional burgundies and greens. The library’s director wanted to shift from the traditional patterning of jewel tones to a more youthful and transitional pattern selection in a brighter palette accented in softer colors.

Heidi and the Milliken design team worked directly with the library’s leadership to design the space, hosting a visit to the Milliken customer showroom and working with the company’s VisionLab team to create proofs and finalize layouts. She then partnered with Brian to complete the installation.

“It’s an honor to be recognized for this amazing project,” said Heidi. “The work of our design team was outstanding. However, realizing the project vision was not just about product design and layout, it was incumbent on a quality installation; the renovation was meticulously phased and executed by our dealer partner. The Bonitz team was able to minimize down time allowing the library to remain open and serve patrons during the renovation while totally transforming the space to create a fresh new look and feel.”

Heidi’s team was one of three teams recognized for successful development of strategic plans to grow business and commitment to supporting team members’ mutual success. Winning teams were recognized during the 2024 Starnet Annual Meeting on May 16-19 in Amelia Island, Florida.

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