Floor Covering News

AUGUST 3, 2020

The first week of Alliance Flooring’s two-week Connect 2020 concluded with Engineered Floors, Metroflor, Emser and Armstrong providing retailers with product reviews, training guidance and special deals on pallets. The beauty of this line is that every single product is a high-density rigid SPC core,” Young said.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Retail outlook: At Ted’s Abbey Carpet, revenues through August are up 9% over 2020. 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. And it’s not just sales that are up.

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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 represents a 7% increase over 2020’s numbers, which have been revised upward since the publication of last year’s Statistical Issue.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 25, 2021

Quinn W hile some segments of the residential replacement market actually benefitted from consumers and homeowners quarantining in their residences during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the same cannot be said for the commercial sector. Soft surface commercial sales were approximately $2.9 compared to 2019. in 2019 to 4.9%

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 9, 2021

FCNews ’ third annual “Industry Disrupters” issue features innovative players and thinkers who are pushing the envelope in terms of product innovations, technological breakthroughs or simply radical new ways of doing business. Domestic Production. Below are this year’s Industry Disruptors. The mother of all disruptors .

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 20, 2020

Sales growth persists despite stumbling blocks. FCNews research put the category at $5.433 billion in sales in 2019, an industry-leading 10.5% As such, 2020 was expected to see similar gains as its predecessor, and suppliers agree 2020 ushered in a vibrant first quarter. “We By Megan Salzano. Shaw’s Floorte?

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Retail outlook: At Ted’s Abbey Carpet, revenues through August are up 9% over 2020. 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. And it’s not just sales that are up.

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Tile of Spain USA

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

This extraordinary representation of companies reflects the Spanish ceramic sector’s commitment to their national and international audience as well as a return to pre-COVID 19 production levels. increase in exports compared to this time in 2020 with sales made to 183 countries worldwide.

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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. In terms of volume, the category accounted for 6.156 billion square feet (not including rubber) at the first point of sale, a 4.7%

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 27, 2022

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. To further illustrate the impact of price increases, the average selling price of all floor- ing in 2020 was $1.21. With that, the U.S.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 24, 2023

But it can be easy to write someone off based on an initial judgement and not give the full effort on a sales pitch. A sales rep may be tempted to undersell a client who looks a bit scruffy or try to oversell to a person who pulled up to the parking lot in a Mercedes. The key is to not let it negatively impact your business. “I

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 20, 2021

Dallas, Texas—Daltile was recently named the Tile Category Winner of the Builder.Media 2020 Building Products Brand Survey. When it comes to program choices, professional home builders choose their supply partners carefully,” said Dan Butterfield, vice president of residential sales for Dal-Tile Corporation.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

February 17/24, 2020: Volume 35, Issue 17. Las Vegas—Six manufacturers were voted best of class in the 2020 Best of Surfaces competition, a contest sponsored by Floor Covering News and Informa Exhibitions, which owns and operates The International Surface Event (TISE). RI DIGITAL. You can feel the difference.”. T ECHNOLOGY.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 10, 2020

6/13, 2020: Volume 35, Issue 14. Many economists expect that trend to carry over into 2020. Further impacting new housing sales were a labor shortage within the construction trade and rising interest rates. This decline in rates caused existing home sales and new home sales to rebound,” Dietz observed. “In

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 26, 2023

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. With that said, unit sales remain at its fourth-highest level ever. FCNews research shows commercial flooring sales totaled $7.34

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Floor Covering News

MAY 7, 2024

Kubesh is vice president of sales for Coldspring in Cold Spring, Minn. During his time with Coldspring, Kubesh has helped provide donations to support the Natural Stone Institute’s auction and participated in the first Natural Stone Pavilion and Women in Stone Amazing Race during StonExpo 2020.

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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. increase over 2020’s revised $6.463 billion. increase from 5.357 billion square feet in 2020.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

February 2/10, 2020: Volume 35, Issue 16. By most accounts, TISE 2020 was another successful event in the annals of Surfaces history. We are so excited to be able to celebrate another incredible event with the industry for TISE 2020,” said Dana Hicks, TISE show director. Vendors step up their game in a big way. By FCNews staff.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 24, 2021

By Reginald Tucker In 2020, something interesting happened in the U.S. 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. of total flooring sales and 5.6%

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 29, 2020

Chicago — In keeping with Domotex USA’s 2020 trade show theme “The World At Your Feet” attendees will discover floor covering trendsetters from around the globe. India-based SRI Color System, a multipurpose wool and textile color reference system, returns to Domotex USA in 2020 to showcase its yarns and color boxes primarily to U.S.-based

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Tile of Spain USA

MARCH 23, 2023

This year’s annual event, the first to take place since 2020, was held from February 27 – March 3, 2023 at Feria Valencia, located in Valencia’s center city. The Spanish tile industry surpassed expectations with overall sales increasing by 16.2% since last year. since 2021.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 5, 2020

March 2/9, 2020: Volume 35, Issue 18. economy heading into 2020 with a hopeful outlook and poised for growth—unemployment is down and consumer confidence is on the rise—the time for tile to shine is now. We love LVT—we sell LVT—but there is a huge market outside of LVT,” said Manny Llerena, director of sales and marketing, MSI. “We

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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 billion, a head-turning increase of 21% over 2020. hardwood flooring market orchestrated a dramatic turnaround in 2021.

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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

MARCH 5, 2020

March 2/9, 2020: Volume 35, Issue 18. The main takeaway here was our members came with a renewed sense of optimism for 2020,” Kevin Logue, co-COO and vice president of marketing, told FCNews. Alliance Flooring’s goal for 2020 was to bring in 20 new members; it was already at the halfway mark by the end of February. By Ken Ryan.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 22, 2020

Trade Representative (USTR) on its Chinese-made LVT products. The exclusions, granted in May 2020, include Wellmade’s HDPC rigid core SQEDGE dryback vinyl plank (other versions of vinyl LVT dryback are not covered) and HDPC rigid core locking strand woven bamboo. “We These exclusions, retroactive to Sept.

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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. Create Flooring: Lofts.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 10, 2024

In this role, Tippett will assume sales responsibility and reporting for Stanton’s hard surface business. “We’re thrilled to have Deb join the Stanton team and confident that her experience, leadership and passion for the business, coupled with Stanton’s seasoned, hardworking sales team, will accomplish the goals set forth.” .

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 29, 2022

By Megan Salzano-Birch—Across all flooring categories suppliers are ramping up their domestic production to meet the needs of their customer base and consumers across the country. AHF Products, for example, has one of the most robust domestic production operations as any supplier in the industry. Daltile’s Dickson plant.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 1, 2022

T he comeback that was predicted in 2020 after ceramic flooring sales experienced its first downward trajectory in several years was right on point as 2021 saw vast improvement across the board. ceramic tile category saw high single-digit growth in 2021 compared to 2020. FCNews research shows ceramic experienced an 8.2%

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

February 17/24, 2020: Volume 35, Issue 17. Multi-family housing activity in 2019 can be best be described as lackluster, especially compared to the sales seen on the single- family side of the business. The dips and turns that contributed to softness last year is expected to continue for at least the first half of 2020, observers say.

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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. While modest, this marks an about-face for the sector, which fell just over 11% in 2020. of hard surface commercial sales and is the fastest growing category. Hard surfaces shine.

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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 or $500 million from 2020’s $4.45

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Tile through Q3 2020, hampered by an economy struggling with the pandemic, was at 2.04 ceramic tile consumption for 2020 would be 2.60 ceramic tile consumption for 2020 would be 2.60 Through 3Q 2020, 1.38 Imports through 3Q 2020 comprised 67.9% 3Q 2020 YTD) with a 20.7% Through 3Q 2020 US shipments were 654.4

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Floor Covering News

MAY 20, 2021

By Reginald Tucker The hardwood flooring category continued to feel the effects of the rising popularity of competing wood look-alike alternatives in 2020, as the hardwood segment took another hit for the second year running. of the total flooring market in 2020 in terms of dollars. of total square footage sold in 2020.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

We’re thrilled to have Jamann join Stanton and confident that his expertise, leadership and passion for the business, coupled with Stanton’s seasoned, hard-working sales team will accomplish this goal.” Prior to TDG, Stepp was the director of marketing and product management for CORETec, both before and after Shaw’s acquisition.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Saint-Georges— Mirage , a hardwood flooring brand, announced its Fall 2020 Rebate Sale. The major hardwood flooring sale is taking place across the United States at all participating Mirage dealers from Oct. This offer is valid on all Mirage standard products, regardless of species, color or width. Consumers get a $0.75/square-foot

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