Floor Covering News

JUNE 26, 2023

Such were the main challenges that defined 2022 for civilization in general and the flooring industry in particular. Still, flooring once again was able to continue its positive trajectory in dollar sales, which it has done every year since the Great Recession of 2008-09 except for the pandemic-impacted 2020.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 27, 2022

flooring industry to post record gains as shoppers continued to spend on home improvements in lieu of lavish vacations. flooring industry went on a wild ride dating back to third quarter 2020, which carried through to the end of 2021. And freight expenses once product reached these shores were through the roof.

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Architectural Ceramics

MARCH 18, 2019

In 2019, it’s easy to see that technology and social media are a part of daily life. To view more neutral but on-trend color options from our Charme Collection, visit our website’s Product Page , or download a Data Sheet here. Want weekly updates about Architectural Ceramics and our product lines?

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 30, 2022

The word “unprecedented” has aptly described the unexpected growth the flooring industry experienced in 2021 despite supply chain challenges, rising costs and the ongoing effects of the pandemic. In terms of volume, the category accounted for 5.881 billion square feet (not including rubber) at the first point of sale, a 9.8%

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

By Ken Ryan—N othing—not a global supply chain slowdown, labor shortage or delta variant—has put a crimp in sales for flooring dealers as they enter the fall season with gale-force winds at their backs. Multiple retailers say they are up double digits in 2021 vs. 2020, and for many 2020 was their historical high-water mark for sales.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Dalton—Midwest, a wholesale building products distributor covering Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and Nevada, is adding a new line of flooring from Welspun Flooring to its expansive offering. Midwest supplies a wide range of building products including flooring, countertops, cabinets and supplies.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 6, 2021

Mark Shannon, executive vice president of distribution sales, will retire from full-time work and transition to a part-time role. Larry Browder, Crossville Studios vice president of sales, will be promoted to executive vice president of sales for Crossville. Browder will be promoted to executive vice president of sales.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

By Ken Ryan—N othing—not a global supply chain slowdown, labor shortage or delta variant—has put a crimp in sales for flooring dealers as they enter the fall season with gale-force winds at their backs. Multiple retailers say they are up double digits in 2021 vs. 2020, and for many 2020 was their historical high-water mark for sales.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 17, 2023

“As an organization, we are more optimistic about 2023 as a whole now—after Q1—than we were going into the year,” said Casey Dillabaugh, president of Boise, Idaho-based Dillabaugh’s Flooring America, echoing a sentiment shared by others. In fact, many retailers are seeing an uptick in their top-line sales.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 24, 2021

laminate flooring market that hadn’t occurred since 2015— the category actually grew in terms of both sales and volume. FCNews research pegged laminate flooring sales at the first point of distribution in the U.S. increase over 2019. of the total flooring market in 2019. at $1.144 billion, a 5.8%

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 14, 2020

Novalis remains on track to take rigid core production stateside in the third quarter. The difference between Novalis and the other manufacturers is knowledge and experience, according to Steve Ehrlich, vice president of sales and marketing. We will be making new products and finding new technologies to build on existing products here.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 28, 2023

When the dust settled, Floor Covering News research found the resilient flooring category as a whole generated $9.522 billion in sales in 2022, a 13% increase over 2021’s $8.426 billion—much of that thanks to LVT. This led to stronger-than-expected sales dollars, but units did not grow at the same pace. in sales in 2019.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Specialty flooring retailers are the drivers of this industry. In choosing their top retailer partners, suppliers looked beyond sales volume to other key attributes such as communication skills, trust, company culture and even benevolence as differentiating factors. In other words, it reflects the retail industry as a whole.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 14, 2021

By Ken Ryan—For many flooring retailers, 2021 represented their best sales year ever , and it’s no wonder as the product pipeline continued to deliver innovative offerings that were in high demand. Following are some of the top must-have product introductions of 2021, along with their key selling points. i4F: i-Click4U.

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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. hardwood flooring market orchestrated a dramatic turnaround in 2021. FCNews research shows wood flooring sales at the first point of sale in 2021 totaled a record $2.67 billion, a head-turning increase of 21% over 2020.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 6, 2021

While the flooring industry has been a “man’s world” for decades, women are rising in the ranks and accomplishing incredible things that have helped move the industry forward. Cheryl Acierno has been engaged in the floor covering industry for her entire career, owning Acierno & Company for the past 21 years. Cheryl Acierno.

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Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

MAY 31, 2019

We hope you like the products we recommend. Just so you are aware, Freshome may collect a share of sales from the links on this page. The 2019 U.S. Meanwhile, granite continues a multi-year decline (40%, 34% and 30% in 2017, 2018 and 2019 studies, respectively). Engineered wood can be used on the floors and cabinets.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 11, 2022

—EJ Welch Company is continuing along its path of rapid expansion in the flooring industry by expanding its leadership team. 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.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 4, 2023

since 2019 to ramp up its domestic manufacturing. The waterproof label has transcended its rigid core roots and is now touted across a variety of flooring constructions—from SPC to tile and even hardwood and underlayment. What’s more, much of the production of these waterproof products is happening right here in the U.S.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 19, 2021

By Megan Salzano While 2020 was anything but ordinary, there was one thing the flooring industry could count on: the continued popularity of the resilient category. It will come as no surprise that resilient—led mostly by the rigid core/SPC sub-segments —once again registered gains while many other flooring categories in 2020 did not.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Despite the challenges and uncertainties the coronavirus is still likely to present in 2021, senior-level executives representing flooring’s big three multi-product manufacturers are bullish in their projections for the coming year as the industry seeks a return to “normalcy.”. By Ken Ryan. And they have good reason to be optimistic.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 22, 2020

Charlestown Pine, Wellmade’s waterproof vinyl flooring, was granted a patent exclusion in the HDPC rigid core category. Wellmade Performance Flooring has been granted tariff exclusions by the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) on its Chinese-made LVT products. By Ken Ryan. These exclusions, retroactive to Sept.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 25, 2021

FCNews research shows commercial flooring revenues (including specified business as well as Main Street sales) totaled $6.134 billion last year—a falloff of 11.1% compared to 2019. The corporate market took the biggest hit in 2020 as its share fell from 42% of sales in 2019 to approximately 38% last year.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

There is no escaping it: 2020 is the year of COVID-19, and flooring distributors of all sizes dealt with the myriad effects—an abrupt shutdown that upended the second quarter followed by a resurgence. Some very sophisticated players have had serious troubles producing consistent, high-quality product outside of China. By Ken Ryan.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 27, 2019

2, 2019: Volume 35, Issue 11. Behind every great carpet is an innovation that went into the design and engineering of the product to create something unique and different. The range of products covered encompass wool, water-safe fabrics such as clothing and furniture, and automobile upholstery. By Ken Ryan.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 8, 2022

A HF Products’ $107 million purchase of Armstrong Flooring was finalized on July 26, bringing to close a tenuous period of negotiations over the past few weeks. The decision to purchase certain assets of Armstrong Flooring keeps the venerable, century-old brand viable while simultaneously bolstering AHF’s burgeoning portfolio.

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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. That $1.304 billion also represents the highest level of laminate sales seen since 2006.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

vs. the same timeframe in 2019, according to TCNA findings. from 3Q 2019 YTD. from 3Q 2019 YTD. The successful trade remedy case against China, for dumping and subsidizing products, resulted in 562.52% to 689.5% by volume vs. 3Q 2019 YTD, a decline of 416 million square feet. from 3Q 2019 YTD. share of U.S.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Welch Company, a division of Center Rock Capital Partners’ Merit Distribution Group, has acquired assets from one of the industry’s top flooring distributors. Welch said it has now acquired the Indiana, Western Tennessee, Kentucky and Ohio territories—which also includes facilities—of Gilford-Johnson Flooring, effective Sept.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 1, 2023

Attendance at Coverings 2023 was 20% higher than the 2019 event. Coverings 2023, the tile industry’s premier North American trade show, took place here last month, April 18-21, to resounding industry excitement and palpable energy across the show floor. I really like to see people in the booths experiencing the product.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 24, 2020

Within the LVT category, SPC and WPC continue to drive sales. Pictured is Distinction Plus from Shaw Floors’ Floorte? The waterproof resilient flooring category continued its meteoric rise in 2019, and nowhere is that more evident than in the SPC subsegment of the LVT category. collection. Shown is Axiscor’s Pro12.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 11, 2021

Now is the time to delve deeper than ever into consumers’ rapidly shifting preferences and priorities and to develop new products, services and even business models to meet those needs. I anticipate that the flooring industry as a whole is poised for a period of solid growth over the next five-plus years. SOLID GROWTH AHEAD.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 23, 2023

H ardwood may very well be the most aspirational flooring product (next to stone or ceramic tile). To that end, hardwood suppliers across the board are leveraging emerging innovations designed to enhance both the visual characteristics as well as the performance attributes of the product.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 10, 2020

The meteoric rise of the resilient flooring category can be directly attributed to the performance of subcategories such as SPC and rigid core, which doubled in terms of volume and more than doubled in terms of dollars between 2018 and 2019. Indeed, vinyl products that resemble ceramic and stone visuals are all the rage.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 30, 2020

floor covering industry sales for 2019 to be a shade above $23 billion and 19.07 That suggests a slightly higher average square foot price for flooring—$.04 Also, on the resilient side, we saw the meteoric rise of SPC/rigid core at the expense of products with traditionally lower price points. 04 to be exact.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 16, 2021

Indusparquet team members at NWFA’s Wood Flooring Expo. The National Wood Flooring Association’s (NWFA) 2021 Wood Flooring Expo , held here from July 7-9 at the Orange County Convention Center, saw more than 2,500 attendees, numerous in-person networking opportunities and a wide variety of education sessions.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 20, 2021

By Megan Salzano—T he booming flooring industry is chock-full of high-style and innovative products aimed at tapping the unprecedented growth in demand that began in 2020. In fact, the resilient flooring market took the industry by storm yet again when it posted a staggering—and industry-leading—21.3% billion in sales.

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