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Related Party Transactions
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2020
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions Note 10: Related Party Transactions

On July 9, 2018, Fumitake Nishi, a former Company employee and the brother-in-law of Robert A. Rucker, the Company’s former Interim Chief Executive Officer and President, former member of the Company’s Board of Directors, and current holder of more than 5% of the Company’s common stock, informed the Company he had reacquired a majority of the equity of one of its key vendors, Nanyang Helin Stone Co. Ltd (“Nanyang”). Mr. Nishi also has an ownership interest in Tilestyling Co. Ltd (“Tile Style”), a vendor from which the Company started acquiring product in 2020. Nanyang and Tile Style supply the Company with natural stone products, including hand-crafted mosaics, listellos and other accessories. The Company paid $7.6 million, $5.1 million, and $12.0 million to Nanyang in connection with purchases made during the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively. As of December 31, 2020 and 2019, the accounts payable due to Nanyang were $0.2 million and $1.4 million, respectively. The Company paid $0.7 million to Tile Style in connection with purchases made during the year ended December 31, 2020. The Company did not make any purchases from Tile Style during the years ended December 31, 2019 or December 31, 2018. As of December 31, 2020, the accounts payable balance due to Tile Style was $0.1 million. The Company did not have any outstanding payable balances due to Tile Style as of December 31, 2019. Mr. Nishi’s employment with the Company was terminated on January 1, 2014 as a result of several violations of the Company’s code of business conduct and ethics policy. Certain of those violations involved his undisclosed ownership of Nanyang at that time.

Management and the Audit Committee have evaluated these relationships and determined that it would be in the Company’s best interests to continue purchasing products from Nanyang and to begin purchasing products from Tile Style. The Company believes Nanyang and Tile Style each provide an important combination of quality, product availability and pricing, and relying solely on other vendors to supply similar product to the Company would not be in the Company’s best interests. The Company and the Audit Committee will continue to review future purchases from Nanyang and Tile Style and compare the pricing for products purchased from each of Nanyang and Tile Style to the pricing of same or similar products purchased from unrelated vendors.

The Company employed Adam Rucker, son of Robert A. Rucker, the Company’s former Interim Chief Executive Officer and President, former member of the Company’s Board of Directors, and current holder of more than 5% of the Company’s common stock, as a Director of Information Technology through December 12, 2018. He was paid $29,025 severance in 2019. In fiscal year 2018, the Company paid Adam Rucker a total of $112,000. Adam Rucker also received the standard benefits provided to other Company employees during fiscal year 2018.