“I kind of have a different strategy down here, and I made it work for me,” said Beaudet. “Naples is a very high-end market. There are so many millionaires here. I always felt that 2-cm laminated [slabs] are a better product, and I have been able to sell that. They require more skill.”
Beaudet worked for a stone fabrication operation locally before starting his company in 1998. “I had actually been working as a vice president at another company in town,” he said. “I have a business degree, and I always had dreams of having my own business. After five years, the time had come to venture out on my own.”