J+J Flooring Promotes Blaine Eakins to VP of Sales

April 7th, 2018 / Dalton, GA
Blaine Eakins

J+J Flooring has announced that Blaine Eakins has been promoted to Vice President of Sales for the J+J Flooring Division of Engineered Floors.  He is replacing Bill Blackstock, who has been named Engineered Floors’ Vice President of Commercial Business, Segment and Sales Development.

Eakins is a 32-year industry veteran and has been with J+J for 23 years.  In his new role, he will be responsible for setting the Division’s sales strategy, driving topline sales for the organization and managing J+J’s North American sales force.  He will also provide input to the division’s product design and marketing efforts to further differentiate J+J’s brand proposition in the marketplace. Eakins will report to James Lesslie, President of Engineered Floors’ Commercial Division.

“As the most senior regional vice president within the J+J sales organization, Blaine served as an invaluable mentor to his peers, and as an insightful strategic thinker for the management team,” said Lesslie.  “He has an in-depth understanding of the challenges facing our customers – whether they are design professionals, end-users or commercial flooring contractors – and how J+J proactively helps them with cost-effective solutions.”

“J+J has a tremendous history of innovation and exceptional customer service.  With those core elements in place, I’m eager to take on this new challenge and create even greater opportunities for J+J and our customers,” said Eakins.

Eakins most recently served as J+J’s Regional Vice President for the Central Region of the U.S.  In that role since 2002, Eakins developed and managed a high-performance sales team in a region that included some of the country’s most competitive markets.  Under his leadership, Eakins’ region led the company in annual sales for 10 consecutive years.

Eakins holds a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

For more information, visit www.jjflooring.com or call 800.241.4586.

About J+J Flooring Group

For more than 60 years, J+J Flooring Group has intelligently crafted beautiful commercial flooring products for diverse applications. As a division of Engineered Floors, LLC, we are proud to be a part of the third largest carpet company in North America. With our range of products including broadloom and modular carpet, Kinetex textile composite flooring and luxury vinyl tile – we engineer all of our flooring solutions with a steadfast commitment to design, quality, service, integrity and sustainability.

In 2016, J+J Flooring Group joined Engineered Floors, LLC. Based in Dalton, Ga., Engineered Floors is a privately held carpet producer founded in 2010 by Robert E. Shaw. The company, which employs more than 2,800 people, produces stain-resistant and colorfast solution dyed nylon and polyester fiber and carpeting for residential replacement, new home builder, multi-family and main street commercial applications. To learn more visit, www.engineeredfloorsllc.com.​

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