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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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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.

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MAY 18, 2021

By Ken Ryan If not for an anomalously bad second quarter created by the COVID-19 pandemic, the carpet category may well have celebrated an upturn in 2020 after several mediocre years. In the second quarter of 2020, residential carpet sales plummeted 23% in volume and 27.4% in dollars, according to FCNews research.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Daltile’s new Defend is a distinct product line of high-performance ceramic tile featuring Microban technology, which will not wash off or wear away. suppliers are touting record-high sales in 2021 and expected ongoing growth as a result of changing consumer habits and a booming housing market —both spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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. uptick over the same period in 2020, the Census Bureau reported. The top-line sales are there,” FEI Group’s Howerton said.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Without these seemingly sundry products the installation would be incomplete and the flooring would likely fail. Perhaps the most design-savvy of flooring categories, tile is most particularly supported by grout and mortar products. Jay Samber, senior director installation products, Dal-Tile Corp., The result?

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JANUARY 18, 2021

Baltimore, Md—Fishman Flooring Solutions, a leading distributor of flooring and flooring installation products, has presented Encircle Products with its 2020 Vendor Partner of the Year Award, recognizing the company for its contributions to Fishman’s sales growth. Encircle Products, headquartered in The Villages, Fla.,

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 10, 2020

The ability to withstand temperature extremes is at the crux of SAR Floors’ TriCore technology, which features a three-layer ESPC core that stands up to cold, heat and sunlight better than some single standard SPC cores, the company stated. Indeed, vinyl products that resemble ceramic and stone visuals are all the rage.

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AUGUST 21, 2023

While there are still four months left before the calendar turns, category experts agree 2023 will likely see the first resilient sales decline for the category. The consensus among the major resilient flooring suppliers is that once the dust clears, 2023 will see resilient sales down mid-to-high single digits. “A

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AUGUST 27, 2021

T oday, consumers want to know where a brand’s products are coming from and how they’re produced; they’re interested in sustainable business practices. Armstrong Flooring is boldly walking into the future with a revitalized brand, an optimized collection of flooring products and adaptive solutions for its customers.

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AUGUST 12, 2021

Millennials are making a name for themselves in the flooring game, taking the lead on everything from marketing to retail ownership to product design. Some of the roles include accounting, logistics, product development, marketing, HR, sales and operations. He was promoted to CEO in February 2020. CEO, Johnson Hardwood.

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MARCH 21, 2022

FCNews’ fourth annual Industry Disrupters issue features innovative players and thinkers who are changing the game in terms of product enhancements, technological breakthroughs or simply radical new ways of doing business. AHF Products. Cali Floors. Disrupting through distribution. From takeover target to blazing the acquisition trail.

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JULY 14, 2022

R esidential carpet sales grew an impressive 17.2% Consumers crave premium style and design in a quality product they can invest in and live on for years to come,” said Natalie Cady, director of premium brands residential channel strategy for Shaw Floors. in Q1 2022. Home values rising.

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APRIL 30, 2021

Rogue River, Oregon—Wagner Meters, a leading manufacturer of wood and concrete moisture measurement technologies, named the winners of its 2020 Distributor of the Year awards during a live virtual event. ” For 2020, outstanding distributors have been chosen in four distinct categories: Top overall sales: E. .

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JULY 11, 2022

Chicago— NeoCon 2022, held here last month, was abuzz with optimism as commercial flooring suppliers touted rebounding sales and specifications across key commercial segments in 2022. A somewhat newcomer to the commercial market, AHF Products hit the ground running in 2022 with its AHF Contract and Parterre brands.

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MAY 16, 2022

The International Surfaces Event (TISE) has a rich history for 30 years, and the last decade has been led with Kerry Cree at the helm of booth sales—including booth, sponsorship and digital. Kerry is fiercely competitive, driven and productive, allowing her to lead this responsibility with grace. By Dana Hicks. manufacturer.

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

As it unfolded, the majority of FCNews ’ Top 20 distributors are forecasting sales increases for 2022, including a few with double-digit jumps. . Heading into COVID-19, no one would have told you that 2020 and 2021 would be two of the best years,” said Jeff Striegel, president of Elias Wilf, Owings Mills, Md. This is the new normal.

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JANUARY 10, 2020

6/13, 2020: Volume 35, Issue 14. We launched the first Diamond 10 product on LVT, and it has since been expanded from there across a broad portfolio of products both domestically manufactured and sourced.”. We have millions of square feet of products with Diamond 10 installed, and we know the proof is in the pudding.”.

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MAY 16, 2024

As such, Broadlume has innovated and expanded its platform with highly impactful and user-friendly tools that deliver ready-to-buy shoppers to retailers and help them close higher-margin sales. We want to make it fast and easy to create a quote for the homeowner to sign,” said Kurt Wilson, director of product management, Cyncly Flooring. “A

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

—Mohawk said it will begin to roll out a fully evolved TecWood product line and introduce 100 new SKUs in 2021 in an effort to give homeowners trusted performance and design from a natural hardwood veneer. TecWood will be included in Mohawk’s first national sale event of the year.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Mohawk ranked 38 th on the publication’s 2020 Top 125 list, the 14 th consecutive year the company has earned a spot on the list and the 12 th time it has ranked as the top flooring manufacturer on the list. For 20 years, Training magazine’s Top 125 list has set the standard of excellence in workplace learning. Calhoun, Ga.—

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AUGUST 8, 2022

The good news is improvement in raw material availability—in part due to a lessening of demand and greater reliance on East Coast ports—has dramatically reduced production times by as much as five months. Although product flow has significantly improved, we are definitely not out of the woods yet,” Raj Shah, president of MSI, told FCNews.

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MARCH 26, 2021

Roughly 80% of Lions Floor’s offering consists of SPC products. By Reginald Tucker T he skyrocketing popularity of SPC/rigid core continues to lure new players to the game—from those that manufacture other flooring products to pure startups. Each comes with their own unique story or product iteration. Pictured is Hibiki.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

No one is expecting floor covering distributors to post banner sales numbers for 2023—certainly not in an environment marked by high inflation and a slumping new home construction market. However, the term “recovery,” by ITR Economics’ standards, means conditions are becoming worse less quickly. rates we had back in 2019-2020.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

AHF Products is bringing back the venerable Hartco brand as it transitions away from the Armstrong name. AHF has launched refreshes to several of the existing products now under the Hartco line including the Prime Harvest and American Scrape collections. American Scrape. Mountville, Pa.—

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APRIL 6, 2020

Having existing inventory is key for flooring interests during this time of plant and production shutdowns. Sales aren’t as bad through the end of March as I had anticipated, but April will be the true test,” she said. Staffers in the marketing, purchasing, customer service and sales departments are working remotely.

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JULY 9, 2020

Some suppliers tout a high level of product quality and attention to manufacturing details; others cite innovations in staining and finishing technologies that accentuate hardwood’s natural aesthetic attributes. director of sales for the 35-year-old company that bears his family name. By Reginald Tucker. Just ask David Lauzon Jr.,

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APRIL 19, 2021

By Reginald Tucker I n a sea of rigid core sameness, floor covering manufacturers are leveraging innovation, product design and durability to propel their respective brands forward. For Shaw Floors, the primary vehicle to bring those differentiating product enhancements to life is technology.

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JUNE 14, 2021

There are the ongoing serious systemic challenges in both labor supply and product availability to contend with, as well as the “classics” like retail traffic, acceptable close rates and claims. Therefore, it is imperative that you know your monthly break-even point (expressed as a written sales figure). Not an LLC, but a corporation.

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APRIL 21, 2020

The biggest factor driving broadloom to rugs is the dominance of hard surface in the flooring landscape,” said Lisa Lux, director of product development at Anderson Tuftex. “A The theory goes that as hard surface products continue to gain share in the home, rugs will continue to grow in popularity as well. “As Why is this trending now?

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APRIL 3, 2022

These include rising inflation , higher raw materials pricing amid inconsistent availability and, now, a war in Ukraine that has threatened the supply of so many goods and services, including Russia-sourced birch lumber that goes into the core layer of many engineered hardwood flooring products sold globally today. We don’t have that issue.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2020

February 17/24, 2020: Volume 35, Issue 17. Las Vegas—The key to launching a successful wood/SPC-type waterproof hybrid product, observers say, lies in finding the right balance between authentic visuals and performance. The product features a real, 1.2mm, sliced-faced white oak wear layer atop a solid polymer core.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2020

February 17/24, 2020: Volume 35, Issue 17. One of the biggest growth categories for Anderson Tuftex has been in the pet market with its Stainmaster Pet Protect products like Furrever, pictured here. We want to trust that the products we put into our homes will stand the test of time.”. By Ken Ryan. The Dixie Group.

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MARCH 8, 2021

By Steven Feldman Amid reports that residential soft surface sales were up about 10% in 2020’s fourth quarter, Mohawk is beefing up all its soft surface brands for 2021 with a bevy of new introductions. The result, dubbed Recover backing technology, is a fully recyclable product. a foot depending on the product.

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MAY 4, 2020

With the novel coronavirus dominating so much news coverage these days—and rightly so—it’s easy to forget that merely a year ago there was another issue consistently making headlines: tariffs on Chinese flooring products and the reciprocal, retaliatory hikes on American-made goods. over the next 12 months as it was the last 12 months.”.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

and hello to selling products and growing digital communities. As social media platforms move more into the e-commerce space, it makes sense to invest in creators who are driving engagement, growing engaged communities and promoting products. use Instagram to discover new brands and products. Social media has evolved.

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APRIL 8, 2022

The presenters will share technical aspects of various products and materials used for branding and elaborate on the process of taking concept boards through completion, reinforcing the Universities’ values. Interior products, from flooring to furniture, have major impacts on global warming. New buildings exist for 25 – 50 years.

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