Company moving its base to Miami
Cosentino Group, which has grown to be a top seller of quartz counter surfaces since moving its North American headquarters to the Houston area in 2000, will relocate to Miami.
The Almeria, Spain-based company will move to Miami in mid2017 to centralize its management, the company announced Friday.
The move is being made as the company rolls out a flagship showroom, called Cosentino City, including one in Miami’s Design District in July. The expansion includes Cosentino City showrooms in New York and Toronto, and soon, Montreal and San Francisco.
Cosentino’s products include the Silestone, Dekton and Sensa by Cosentino brands.
“Since we opened the subsidiary in 1997, Houston has been an incredible place for our operations in the USA, and our business in the city as well as in Texas will continue to grow strongly in the coming years,” Eduardo Cosentino, executive vice president of global
sales for Cosentino Group and CEO of Cosentino North America, said in an announcement.
But he said the company decided to move to “a global city.”
The move will create 85 new jobs in Florida, according to an announcement by Florida Gov. Rick Scott. Cosentino credited partners at the Enterprise Florida and the MiamiDade Beacon Council economic development organizations for help with the move, but did not disclose specific incentives that lured the company from Texas.
Cosentino’s North American subsidiary, which accounts for 55 percent of overall company sales, will continue to operate a distribution hub in La Porte.
The company’s North American headquarters was briefly based in Minneapolis before relocating to Stafford. In 2013, it relocated its headquarters to Sugar Land and opened a Cosentino Center in west Houston.
Sometime this year, Cosentino will be vacating about 29,000 square feet in the 2245 Texas Drive office building in Sugar Land Town Square. The space, which was leased for 10 years, is on the top floor and the first floor.
“We represent them on either subletting or releasing the space,” said Don Janssen, a principal with Planned Community Developers.
The family-owned company employs about 1,200 in the U.S. and Canada.