Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

T he tremendous excitement surrounding the waterproof flooring category has spurred an array of both natural and synthetic products—and even some innovative, water-resistant hybrid materials. The products are also 100% waterproof, allowing for “whole home flooring” with authentic hardwood visuals in every room. Eternity Floors.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This week we asked: Which product has surprised you the most in 2022? Here are their responses: Because of the negative connotation laminate flooring has held over the past years we were surprised to see this category increase its share of our flooring sales. It has been steady, stable and predictable, which drives sales.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 30, 2022

What is not unprecedented is the trailblazing resilient category, which continued its wild ride in 2021 with another year of major growth in both resilient flooring sales and volume—again led mostly by the red-hot rigid core subsegment of LVT. When taking total flooring sales into account, resilient flooring sales comprised 31.6%

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 29, 2022

After experiencing declines in both sales and square footage in 2019 and 2020, the U.S. FCNews research shows wood flooring sales at the first point of sale in 2021 totaled a record $2.67 Hardwood’s performance in 2021 helped the category increase its share of total floor covering sales, albeit slightly, to 10%.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Wood plank tile formats remained our most popular flooring product in the single-family space, across all price levels,” said Patrick Warren, vice president of residential sales, dealer & showrooms, Dal-Tile. What is new are the applications and shapes of these larger product lines.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The sales industry is about two things: Trust and value. Here’s how to harness the power of both and develop lasting relationships with customers, via sales strategy. A strong sales strategy is critically important to any organization. Successful sales strategies accrue an invaluable asset: Client trust.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 5, 2022

Preliminary FCNews research shows the commercial flooring market totaled $6.488 billion in sales in 2021, an uptick of 6% over 2020. The coronavirus pandemic impacted all sectors of the economy last year as businesses saw supply chains interrupted, demand for products and services decline, and government-mandated closures.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 5, 2022

The resurgent laminate flooring category continued on its upward trajectory in 2021 as sales reached $1.304 billion, FCNews research shows. That $1.304 billion also represents the highest level of laminate sales seen since 2006. In terms of sales, laminate represented just 4.9% in 2016; and 6.6% in 2011, FCNews research shows.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 17, 2022

AHF Products is partnering with Belknap-Haines, one of America’s leading full-service flooring distributors, to distribute Armstrong branded resilient products in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, effective immediately. Both Armstrong residential and commercial products will be represented by Belknap-Haines. Mountville, Pa.—AHF

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 27, 2022

But back then it was less expensive products like VCT, vinyl sheet, resilient tile and less expensive carpet. About 90% of the product comes from Asia, thus making it the segment most impacted by supply chain disruptions. Home Depot reported flooring sales of $9.225 billion, up 13.1%, or $1.05 cor reported sales of $3.43

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 29, 2022

has announced two promotions within its sales organization. Tom Kettering and Anthony Coggins are both expanding their roles as directors of sales for their respective geographic regions. “As Kettering, previously a Crossville divisional manager, has been promoted to director of sales–midwest/east. — Crossville, Inc.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 29, 2022

has announced two promotions within its sales organization. Tom Kettering and Anthony Coggins are both expanding their roles as directors of sales for their respective geographic regions. “As Kettering, previously a Crossville divisional manager, has been promoted to director of sales–midwest/east. — Crossville, Inc.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 11, 2022

The latest initiative in its efforts to grow its brand nationwide is hiring and promoting a wide range of seasoned professionals with experience in commercial and residential flooring and installation products. She brings years of expertise in flooring sales management, new business development, project management and strategic planning.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 19, 2022

To that point, FCNews reached out to several dealers across the country that heavily merchandise the luxury vinyl category and its three main iterations— LVT, SPC and WPC —to share their best sales strategies. That’s where our great sales associates step in and guide them through the options. Lupe Brookhart. Anaheim, Calif. “We

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

“In late 2020, many economists forecasted very conservative growth numbers for 2021 within the strides of a global pandemic,” noted Dan Butterfield, vice president, residential sales, Dal-Tile. These pressures have forced many builders to focus on stateside manufacturing and distribution,” Larry Browder, EVP of sales, Crossville, pointed out.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 8, 2022

—After expanding nationally in 2021, LSI Flooring —a national flooring products, sales and marketing agency —took over Daltonian Flooring’s carpet and rug padding business this year. LSI padding products are made of extremely-high-density polyurethane with applications in both contract and residential markets.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Scott Jones, John Thompson and Andy Friedlander are the company’s new territory sales managers for south and east Texas and eastern North Carolina. Scott Jones is Happy Feet’s new territory sales manager for the east Texas region. He has 28 years of experience in the sales and installation of all types of flooring. Scott Jones.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 2, 2022

Stanton has acquired Floors 2000, which serves the residential market with a well-styled, well-priced product line featuring LVP and porcelain tile. Floors 2000 offers a comprehensive and complementary hard surface product line that rounds out the company’s overall assortment,” said Jonathan Cohen, CEO of Stanton. “We

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 24, 2022

According to the company, the recent upgrade was designed with the emphasis on better serving its dealer and distributor network and providing customers with an easy-to-navigate platform to find the perfect product for their project. ” The post Walker Zanger launches redesigned website appeared first on Floor Covering News. .

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 28, 2022

Toronto, Ontario—Torlys is hosting the Torlys XPedition, an immersive booth experience showcasing its newest product innovations including Torlys Everest Hardwood and Cork at Surfaces, Feb. The post Torlys to display new products at TISE 2022 appeared first on Floor Covering News. Torlys XP floors are launching in March 2022.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 20, 2022

While single-home production is posting double-digit increases over last year, building materials and labor shortages, housing affordability and backlogs are tempering growth prospects for 2022, observers said. The top-line sales are there,” FEI Group’s Howerton said. Builder State of the Industry.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 10, 2022

The popularity of bamboo and cork flooring remains strong despite the intense competition from the deluge of LVP/SPC products. However, despite all these positive attributes , bamboo and cork flooring products cannot sell themselves. Position the products appropriately. positions cork flooring front and center in her location.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 24, 2022

From that simple beginning, we have grown into the largest tile and countertop company in the world, manufacturing products that range from 1-inch mosaics to 11-foot-tall quartz slabs and everything in between.”. Kahny noted that while there have been many changes, the fundamental values of Daltile have remained. Innovation.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Consumers are spending more money on creating outdoor oases using products like Daltile’s My Stone Moon collection, seen here. . It’s no different when it comes to the growing “outdoor living” trend, which is a prime piece of the sales puzzle that flooring dealers should be taking full advantage of in 2022. told FCNews.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The sales team at Ambassador Mid-West Floor has started using the visualizer’s increased capabilities to show homeowners options for new backsplashes in addition to floors. “We We plan to use the visualizer to help close deals and increase sales.”. Now they’re able to visualize and see their floors along with countertops and walls.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 14, 2022

Best Overall in the Award of Excellence 2022 measured suppliers in 10 categories—product innovation, design, service, ease of doing business, professionalism of sales force, training/education, handling of claims, digital tools, on-time delivery and credit terms. Engineered Floors, meanwhile, was victorious in Group A for carpet.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 8, 2022

Daltile has become the retailer’s largest supplier with business increasing from 40% of all tile sales to about 80%. You’ll put in your ZIP code or city, and then it will list our elite Statement dealers first,” said Patrick Warren, vice president, residential sales, dealer and showrooms. But since investing in Statements 2.0,

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

According to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), elevated mortgage rates, high construction costs and weakening demand stemming from deteriorating affordability conditions continue to act as a drag on single-family housing production. Overall housing starts decreased 4.2% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.43

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

“We have found that there is great value in partnering with CTEF to provide installers with training before CTI evaluations,” said Tom Carroll, senior product manager, Sika. “We Pre-constructed floor and wall frames were prepared for installers to level, apply tile, grout and caulk using SikaTile products.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 26, 2022

By acknowledging those innovations that are decided to be a cut above the rest, suppliers and their products receive credit and gain additional exposure. Suppliers are asked to submit only one innovation per product category. Flooring products will be judged based on design and/or performance (technology). Practicality.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

FCNews spoke with several dealers across the country who have diversified product offerings to gauge the strategies that work best for them. Product offerings: Flooring, window treatments, cabinets, countertops. I had to wait until my father retired in order to expand into other products. Product offerings: Flooring, cabinetry.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Attendees will gain insight into today’s sustainability market and the current conversation around carbon emissions, detailing the need for furthering the demands of environmental transparency, standardized environmental performance and human health optimization pertinent to product ingredients.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 10, 2022

—Ecore has partnered with Spartan Surfaces to relaunch its ECOsurfaces line of products. ECOsurfaces has always been our environmental banner to the A&D community,” said Bo Barber, executive vice president of sales and marketing at Ecore. The ECOsurfaces brand will be a key product in our expansion plans across the U.S.”.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 27, 2022

Because we are able to see the exact products our customers are viewing, we are able to make business decisions specific to current trends. The partnership with Roomvo has just gotten better and better,” said Jason O’Krent, director of sales, O’Krent Floors. It is a remarkable tool that we’re grateful to have.” .

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Daltile donated tile products for the home. Daltile is truly honored to be part of bringing this new home to Captain Carver,” said Jay Samber, senior director of installation product sales for Daltile. Army Captain Derick Carver , who was severely wounded during his service in Afghanistan.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 28, 2022

When all the numbers were tabulated for 2021, FCNews research found that overall carpet sales grew 11.5% to $8.201 billion compared with $7.355 billion carpet sales in 2020. Residential carpet sales were up an astounding 17.2%. Total area rug sales increased an estimated 8% to $2.782 billion, according to industry estimates.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

6 (projected 2022 sales of $230 million) has been all-encompassing—the basketball equivalent of a full-court press. Welch has developed and implemented a strategic plan that entails customer service, pricing, procurement, marketing and sales. to keep pace with sales and product expansion. Today, the Earth City, Mo.

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