Carpet & Tile Mart is a 3rd generation, family-owned and operated business, built upon a proud heritage of providing customers a unique combination of unprecedented value, massive selection and unsurpassed customer service. Today the company operates 11 Flooring Superstores that serve Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, South Jersey and South Carolina, and a fast-growing e-commerce division that puts the Carpet & Tile Mart value proposition within reach of flooring customers from Coast to Coast in the US.
In 1967, company founder Sam Longwill, opened the chain’s first store as Airbase Carpet Mart in a Quonset hut adjacent to the Air National Guard Base in New Castle, Delaware. Sam was able to stock and sell broadloom carpet, Orientals and Area Rugs at deep discounts by buying mill overstocks, factory leftovers and remnants from dozens of manufacturers; allowing customers to get the same quality and fashion of high-end carpeting at a fraction of the cost of other carpet stores.