About our Company

Rated A by the Better Business Bureau

We Are a Unique American / Brazilian Family Company

Arco-Iris Granite is a family company. We are a mixed family of Brazilians and Americans. My boss, Marina (from Rio) and I were married in 1996 and she and our daughter, Martina, speak fluent Portuguese and English. Also in our family are twin teenage boys, three adult daughters, two son-in-law's and two grandsons, and two granddaughters.

Through, Marina’s connection to Brazil, our company started importing and selling containers of granite mined from the mountains of Brazil. We sell directly from the quarries to fabricators all over the USA. Fabricators that buy granite directly from Brazil, pay very low prices for the beautiful slabs, and eliminate the middleman mark up. Importing was our main business until an eight month long dock workers strike in the port of Victoria Brazil in 2002. The strike lasted eight months and we were un-able to recieve containers of granite from Brazil.

Arco-Iris began fulltime fabrication of granite countertops in 2002. During the past 9 years we have fabricated and installed hundreds of countertops in all parts of Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia and Indiana. We have earned and maintained an A rating with the Better Business Bureau. (We gladly provide names and numbers of previous customers)

This newspaper article, tells our importing story best: -------

Edgewood Ky Company Imports Directly From Brazil

Charles Schneider of Edgewood founded his Granite importing business in 1999 and his business has grown every year.

A Cincinnati native and graduate of the University of Cincinnati, Schneider uses his connections in Brazil to provide customers with a wide selection of granite at the lowest possible prices.

Schneider's' wife, Marina, is a native of Brazil who speaks fluent Portuguese.

"My wife is very important to the business because she can handle business deals and ordering in Brazil while I handle the U.S. end of the business," said schneider. "She also has Brazilian contacts in the granite business. Because I have no overhead and can get granite from Brazil at low price, no one can touch my prices."

Schneider imports 75% of his granite from Brazil with the remaining granite purchased from India, China, Finland, other European countries, and Georgia and North Dakota.

"Our Granite is the absolute best," said schneider. Schneider provides his customers with 140 different granite colors in eight price categories. His web site, www.Arco-Iris Granite.com allows the customer to click each price category and see the colors and quality offered in that price range.

"We represent ten quarries in Brazil with 75 colors of granite, many of which are very beautiful and unique to the industry," said schneider. "Then ten quarries are successful, quick, and market the granite as one team. Fortunately, I'm their only American contact. The granite is mined from a mountain in giant slabs and sent to a central cutting house in Brazil. We pack the granite in 20 foot containers in Brazil and send the containers directly to fabricators in the United States. We've created excellent relationships with U.S. fabricators."

E-mail us : arcoirisgranite@aol.com

231 Walker Lane - Edgewood, Ky - 41017