Milliken & Company

✨ We are excited to announce a refreshed visual identity for Borchers: A Milliken Brand to more closely align with the Milliken & Company brand identity. Over the next year, all brand assets will be updated to reflect the new logo and color palette. The Borchers #coatingadditives brand has become an integral part of Milliken’s portfolio, and now, our visual identity will serve as another reminder of this connection. Rest assured, while our look has been updated, the Borchers brand will continue to offer the same innovation, quality, and technical expertise you count on. 🎨🖌️ See how Borchers additives can empower you to create better coatings: https://lnkd.in/e2cG2rU8

Listen to Deidre Sandrock, Director of Sustainability and Innovation. 👋🔊 With a passion for science and a commitment to making things better, she’s been instrumental in creating a cohesive framework that empowers our teams to develop sustainable solutions. Explore her journey of pioneering sustainable solutions and empowering our teams to innovate. 🌟Read her full story: https://brnw.ch/21wLljI #UnstoppablePeople #TeamMilliken #ForHumanKIND

“I’m a Midwest kid. I grew up near Chicago in the suburbs of Illinois and went to college at Indiana University. I studied business and marketing but if I’m being completely honest, at 20 I didn’t know what I wanted to do after college. I was living day-to-day, assignment-to-assignment. When people ask ‘where do you see yourself in five years?’ I really wouldn’t know what to say. It might have felt like it wasn’t forward thinking but I just always operated more in the moment. So after graduation I was job searching like most twenty-something grads and I stumbled across a customer service position at Westex. This was prior to Milliken & Company acquiring the company (in 2015) so their headquarters were still in Chicago, back near where I grew up. It was a great first job for someone who wasn’t totally sure of their future because I learned so many aspects of business. I had to know the products, the customers, our operations, marketing, finance—every step between getting an order in to getting that order out the door I needed to understand. Now, that also opened me up to some challenging days. There are days where I had to put out a lot of fires and I had to learn to maintain my composure. That can be a challenge but really those days, I think, are where I learned the most and where I developed the foundation I needed to do what I do now. A few years ago I was given the opportunity to take on an inside sales position. That got my feet wet with account management and it allowed me an opportunity to see a new path in my career. It wasn’t long after that our sales director floated the idea of me coming into sales full-time, specifically to cover Canada. I remember he half-jokingly asked how my French was and I just thought to myself, “ehhhh, not very good haha.” Luckily in my customer service role, I was already working pretty closely with our Canadian customers and that made the transition easier. Before taking the role I was a little intimidated by the idea of sales. You know a lot of times when you think of salespeople you think of people who are extroverted, super outgoing and I’m not that person at all. I’m more reserved, laid back. But I‘ve learned there’s not a cookie cutter person who can be successful in sales. It’s about developing relationships with your customers, knowing your products, following up and making time—it’s doing the little things that make the difference.” -Adam Bernkopf, account manager, Westex: A Milliken Brand

Inspired by our recent collection Painted Garden, we hosted a pressed pottery plates workshop with Sarah Bryan. The results were outstanding! Our customers thought so too and loved seeing their completed pieces. 🌼🌿✨ Click to view the Painted Garden collection : https://bit.ly/3IDXECw #nature #mindfulworkshops #potteryworkshop #commercialflooring #carpettiles #planks #londonshowroom