Shaw Industries Promotes Tim Baucom to President

Shaw Industries Group, Inc. (“Shaw”) announced the appointment of Tim Baucom as president of the company. In this new role, Baucom is expanding his current responsibilities for the company’s residential flooring division to include Shaw’s commercial flooring and turf businesses.

“Tim has been an instrumental member of our leadership team since his appointment as executive vice president of our residential group three years ago. He has led our residential business to improved levels of performance through product innovation, sales organization alignment, brand focus, and improved support for customers,” said Shaw Chairman and CEO Vance Bell. “Tim will continue to bring a strategic focus, helping Shaw to rapidly anticipate and evolve with the increasing pace of change in our industry.”

Baucom joined Shaw in 1992 after spending the first 11 years of his career with DuPont, where he held positions in engineering, manufacturing, planning, sales, and marketing. Since joining Shaw, Baucom has held leadership positions across multiple segments of the company including in residential and commercial sales. He was instrumental in building the commercial business into the largest and most profitable commercial flooring entity in North America.

About Shaw

Shaw Industries Group, Inc. supplies carpet, resilient, hardwood, laminate, tile and stone flooring products and synthetic turf to residential and commercial markets worldwide. We are a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. with approximately 20,000 associates worldwide. Shaw is headquartered in Dalton, Georgia, with salespeople and/or offices located throughout the U.S. as well as Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, France, India, Mexico, Singapore, United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.

Contact:

Susan Farris – Vice President Corporate Marketing & Communications – susan.farris@shawinc.com – (706) 532-3562

Source: Shaw Industries Group, Inc.