Housing Slump? Not According To This Local Franchiser

Black Enterprise:

This is retrenchment time in the housing industry, right?

Not everywhere, according to Doug Disney, founder of a Rancho Cordova-based tile chain that’s launching a national expansion, despite the foundering housing market.

His company, Tile Outlet, has 65 franchise stores - and 34 more set to open - in 6 Western states. Locally, there’re more than a dozen outlets between Auburn and Woodland.

And now Disney is pushing his concept across the country, planning to open supply warehouses in Houston and Massachusetts to serve prospective franchisees in those regions.

‘By the end of next year we’ll have 200 locations,’ says the 37-year-old, who opened his first Tile Outlet here in 2001 and almost immediately began franchising. Continue reading.