Blackton Earns Contract to Provide Flooring for D.R. Horton’s New Polk County Community Orchid Grove in Polk County, FL

Micky Blackton

Haines City, FL --- Blackton, Inc., an Orlando-based supplier for the home building industry, was recently awarded a contract from D.R. Horton to provide flooring products worth an estimated $500,000 for Orchid Grove being developed in Polk County.

   Micky Blackton, chief executive officer of the family-owned firm, said the contract with Dallas/Ft. Worth-based D.R. Horton includes all flooring materials for the homebuilder’s 91 single-family homes planned for Orchid Grove located off U.S. Hwy. 27 in Haines City.   

Blackton, Inc., a family owned business headquartered on Alden St. near Ivanhoe Row north of downtown Orlando, has been ranked as one of Central Florida’s largest distributors of materials to homebuilders.  They have been supplying the industry from Jacksonville to Tampa for 65 years.

 Contacts:

Michael “Micky” Blackton, CEO, Blackton, Inc. 

407-898-2661 Micky@Blacktoninc.com

Beth Payan, Larry Vershel Communications 

407-644-4142 Lvershelco@aol.com or beth@larryvershel.com