Carpet Concept, founded in Bielefeld in 1993 by Thomas Trenkamp as a specialist for woven contract carpeting, has been fully absorbed into Danish Ege Carpets since May 2021; as an independent company the brand no longer exists, the name surviving only in carried-over inventory collections and in archive. Whoever orders Carpet Concept today orders Ege Carpets.

The path there ran in two steps: on 1 December 2016, Egetæpper a/s acquired 75 percent of the shares from the Heinz Anstoetz Beteiligungs KG, Trenkamp retained 25 percent and remained at the helm; in May 2021 that alliance crystallised into the formal merger into Ege Carpets, in which the Bentzon and Hammer brands were also subsumed. Trenkamp left the company in early 2022; its activities in Bielefeld – relocated in 2024 to new offices at Stieghorster Strasse 115 – have since been bundled under Ege Carpets. The DACH managing directorship passed in late May 2025 from Matthias Quinkert to Michael Thomann, recruited from Scandinavian premium furniture (Carl Hansen & Søn, Fritz Hansen, Audo Copenhagen).

The legacy weighs heavily: the Federal Republic of Germany's Design Prize in 2004, the Architects Partner Award Gold in 2009, multiple Iconic and Red Dot Awards (most recently in 2019 for Eco Roc), together with collaborations with Carsten Gollnick and Ben van Berkel of UNStudio, trace a line that reached the office context early and, later, hospitality, cruise and educational architecture. Eco Iqu, Eco Roc, NEO, Hem, Discovery and Fields built a programme that consistently brought together woven carpet tiles and broadloom with acoustic competence – the Carpet Concept Acoustic System (CAS), recognised with the German Design Award in 2014.

Strategically, the enlarged group has positioned itself unambiguously: in 2024 the acoustic division CAS Rooms was handed over to the Lindner Group, which now distributes the room-in-room solutions, while Ege Carpets sharpens its core competence – flooring and integrated textile acoustics. All products are Cradle-to-Cradle certified; the Ege CircleBack take-back programme dovetails with the goal of recovering all residuals by 2030 and using exclusively recycled yarn, whose share already exceeds 60 percent today. A brand integration rarely documented as cleanly in textile interior architecture.