My decision to bring our company to the United States was to improve the logistics and distribution of our products, since the natural stone distribution business here had become just an ordinary distribution business, ran by middleman that cared only about their own profits. In 2005 while vacationing in California I met an owner of 50 fast food franchises who was selling its enterprise to become a big granite distributor. With the skyrocketing profits and construction fever led by the housing market frenzy, many big investors and profiteers had entered the business in the recent years, forming huge corporations for distribution of natural stone just like lumber, drywall and other commoditized construction materials, which drove prices and quality down. They don’t have any background nor do it with passion. Unfortunately these investors didn’t have the mining sector experience nor the interests of customers as their first priority. They generalized and ignored the enormous variety of natural stone, like gneiss, syenite, basalt, quartzite, calling and selling them as granite indistinctively.

I think when somebody is looking for natural stone for their products, they seek for something unique that only this material can offer; something that identifies with them. That is why I want to make sure that every one who comes to our warehouses not only feels very confident when picking their stone, but they learn and understand all the natural and man made process that is behind the slabs they are standing in front of. This is because we have experts at our stores to serve our customers, from Mining Engineers to Interior Designers.

At ARC you deal with real natural stone business people. Not only because we have been selling natural stones for over 40 years, but because we have been also quarrying, producing and educating people on natural stone. This is what we believe in: experience, quality processing, and quality professionals.

When I remember as a child playing in the quarries and learning from my father’s experience, I see today that we can share many of our experience with people from all over the world, which makes me really proud.

We are here not to be the biggest; we just want to be the best for our customers.

Thank you and welcome to our family.

Eduardo Guidi
C.E.O of ARC GROUP