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History of The Concrete Network

The Concrete Network was founded in 1999 by Jim Peterson, a former Vice President of a major concrete contractor in Riverside, Calif., with at that time 14 years in the concrete business.

While walking the 1999 World of Concrete Trade Show in Las Vegas, Peterson realized that the industry was exploding with innovations such as concrete home forms, concrete colors and textures, micro toppings, stains and dyes, garage floor coatings, concrete polishing, pervious paving, etc. ... Even being in the business it was hard to comprehend all that was available.

At that point Peterson set out to organize the concrete applications in a way that interested consumers, builders, designers, and concrete contractors and their crews could find useful.

From the first month when it was just Peterson and a part time web master, and not even a 1000 people (mostly friends and family and anybody else who would listen) visited the site, to today where a passionate and talented team of people are serving 12 million visitors to The Concrete Network in 2010, the mission has been the same:

Provide accurate and useful concrete information in an easy to navigate and understand format.

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