the natural stone MARKET, INDUSTRY & ROCOCO

The global tile, natural stone, granite, limestone and marble category is dynamic and fast-growing. Current trends show the industry growing at the rate of 4.4% to 6.8% annually, or roughly US$4.9 billion in U.S. sales alone.

The demand for natural stone is expected to increase more than 20% in the next two to three years, with some 19.8 million square feet to sell..

The global market for natural stone will continue to benefit from growing consumer interest in natural materials.

Nowhere is that more evident than in the U.S. market, where high home prices and consumer demand have resulted in builders installing stone in newly built residential and commercial projects, and consumer refinancing fueling fast-paced use of stone products of all kinds.

RST envisioned this trend and placed featured stones in the first line of purchase. They have an intimate knowledge of tile and stone, borne of years of experience, understanding color, quality, shape, size, wear ability, consistency, installation issues and designer demands, make the RST model and partnership invaluable to industry newcomers and veterans alike.

In the United States alone, Rococo Stone Traders executives are forecasting significant growth in size and market share within the next three to five years. RST is in the midst of an aggressive, competitive marketing initiative.

Its current marketing objectives are forecast to generate US$40 million in gross revenues by the fifth year of implementation. Rococo intends to meet its targeted objective through exclusive Importers within defined territories throughout the United States.

Rococo’s importing distribution dealers are anticipated to see profits rise with our Rococo line of stones distributed through a turnkey program.

With our program, partners make a choice to import, wholesale and distribute, or to look at our other opportunities that include fabrication and/or installation.

Partners can buy from one of our available hubs and fabricate, or just wholesale the product. They can become a Distributor exclusively by also importing our modular Countertops that are widely regarded as among the finest granite available.

Combined these are key distinctions, as low cost for a highly desirable product translate to a staunchly competitive advantage and heightened profitability.

Under RST management’s guidance, partners are encouraged to develop specialized niche categories by providing our precut modular fabricated kitchen countertops to key market segments.

RST focuses on offering the 20 leading, affordable and high quality marble and granite colors that today are the best selling stones in America. These stones include such highly popular and exclusive products as Desert, Milos,
Jerusalem, Egyptian, Turkish and Travertine stones sources from across the globe.

As with our modular granite system, our tile program can also come as a modular system, called the French pattern or (Versailles) with Giava edging (tumbled-look), or even in a regular shaped tile.

What makes the program unique is quite profound, because the tile does not need calibrating and is of an antiqued nature it is very simple to install, in fact it is very similar to installing ceramic and takes basically the same time, meaning big profits per square foot sometimes as much as the tile itself.

Tile and stones are sourced directly, eliminating resellers or “middlemen” who derive a profit that results in higher wholesale and retail prices. Working directly with quarries and fabricators, RST and Rococo Stone International is a main buying group that sources, develops and introduces exclusive proprietary performance materials in stone. This provides a competitive edge to RST partners, importing fabricators and distributors, as well as future product lines.

Such innovation also includes RST’s new Rococo Color process that infuses almost any neutral stone like Crema supernova or Blanco Romeo Dream from  Brazil, with such exotic and rare colors as deep blues, aqua's, burgundy reds, eggplant, sepias and logos, for example). Ready for release and production in mid-2007.

This process will further establish Rococo Distributor / Fabricator within their given competitive market as a trusted provider of exclusive rare and beautiful colors at affordable prices.

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