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Our History

Decor&You Milestones

1998  The first Decor&You franchise opened in Prospect, Connecticut.
1998  Mary Gilliatt joins Decor&You as an advisor to guide training and design initiatives.
1999 Decor&You becomes a hit and opens a second franchise in Rockland County, NY.
2001 Paul Pieschel joins the Decor&You executive team to strengthen sales and marketing operations for the growing company.
2001 Decor&You creates a permanent home for its national training center in Southbury, Connecticut.
2003 Entrepreneur Magazine ranks Decor&You among its Top 500 Franchises for the first time.
2004 Decor&You establishes the Decor&You Foundation dedicated to supporting people and their pets.
2005 Decor&You opens its first west coast franchise in California.
2005 Decor&You begins hiring professional managers to enhance key franchise functions: coaching, training, vendor relations, communications and operations.
2005 Sylvia Albrecht joins Decor&You to expand internal coaching, mentoring and educational programs for franchisees.
2006 Decor&You awards its 100th franchise.
2006 Linda Gottlieb joins Decor&You to refine franchisee training and expands and strengthens the franchisee education curriculum and the faculty.
2006 Frank Spano joins the Decor&You Executive Team to lead strategic development.
2006 Decor&You begins providing design industry certification to graduating franchisees, in partnership with Certified Interior Decorators International, the nation’s only certifying body for interior decorating professionals.
2007 Decor&You launches its first multi-unit opportunity, Exciting Windows by Decor&You.
2007 Decor&You partners with Fabricut, Colwell Industries and others to create the FabriClutch™, a revolution in fabric merchandising that simplifies and enhances the fabric selling and shopping experience for decorators and consumers alike.
2007 Decor&You sells its first multi-unit territory in Virginia.
2007 Decor&You appears in articles in the nation’s three leading daily newspapers: The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.    
2007 Decor&You wins the Mercury Gold Award for Outstanding Internal Communications for its 2006 National Franchisee Conference, “Dressed for Success,” from the PRSA Chapters of Connecticut and Westchester County.