For Mac Cooper, leadership at Uttermost is a family tradition stretching back three generations, and it is deeply intertwined with his personal faith.
Cooper first experienced the High Point Market as an 8-year-old, traveling from Rocky Mount, Va., to help set up his family’s showroom for Cooper Wood Products, founded by his grandfather in the 1950s.
“In the old days we ate down at the volunteer kitchen, a cafeteria in the basement,” he recalled in an earlier interview with Furniture Today‘s sister publication Home Accents Today. “The hallways in the market buildings were always smoky, and the elevators were busy and crowded.”…