Floor Covering News

JUNE 1, 2021

Forbo’s Marmoleum features a wide range of color, design and size options to create multiple looks. Forbo Flooring Systems has succeeded on all those fronts. Forbo was founded with an expressed focus on linoleum flooring products. It is also available in multiple sizes and direct glue-down and floating floor formats.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 24, 2023

T here’s a long-running flooring industry folk tale (it’s actually a true story) about a high-end retailer in New York City—ABC Carpet & Home—that was suspicious of a disheveled man roaming around the company’s flagship store on the famed Broadway strip. Other dealers, including Sean Ryan, owner of Elegant Floors in Shelbourne, Vt.,

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Floor Covering News

MAY 1, 2023

M any flooring retailers experienced a surplus of inventory in 2022 due to supply chain improvements. The following A+ products represent a sampling of new collections or expanded product line offerings that scored high for specialty flooring retailers and distributors in 2022. Rose Carpets & Flooring, Burlington, Mass.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 18, 2021

The new year is moving right along, and with it has come new innovations and product lines from top brands across flooring categories. When looking for new rigid core flooring lines to onboard or turning to a proven collection to make the sale, flooring retailers seek out specific qualifications in both the product and supplier.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The stay-at-home economy continues to buttress the flooring industry as remodeling projects surge. With few exceptions, flooring retailers continue to report strong activity as they enter the final four months of what has been an unprecedented 2020. Davenport, Iowa. Brian’s Flooring & Design in Birmingham, Ala.,

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 18, 2022

While some flooring store owners say they felt “frozen in time” during the lockdowns of 2020, others say they seized the opportunity to rethink, revitalize and reinvent the way they do business. Our space is designed to make customers feel at home.”. The Floor Doctors. Des Moines, Iowa. MDG Flooring America.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

—Durkan, together in partnership with NEWH, awarded Ishanya Singhal of the Savannah College of Art and Design the grand prize in the 2020 dscvr Student Design Competition. As this year’s first-place recipient, Singhal has won a $2,500 NEWH scholarship and a bespoke design experience exclusively curated for her by Durkan.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

By Ken Ryan—T here are so many reasons why flooring retailers gravitate to carpet. About the product: Confetti III is a residential textured carpet from Dream Weaver, Engineered Floors’ residential brand. Doug Bertrand, Carpetland USA, Davenport, Iowa. Engineered Floors. Shaw Floors. C ONFETTI III. P ARK H ILL.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

—For the first time, Durkan has opened the dscvr Student Design Competition for public voting, beginning today. Each year, dscvr identifies and exhibits emerging talent in the field of hospitality design and contributes toward the education of these future designers. Ashtyn Chance, University of Northern Iowa: “Rocky Waters”.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 18, 2021

By Ken Ryan B ehind every successful floor covering retailer is a supplier—or core group of vendors—with a vested interest in the health and vitality of that retailer. They are partners with integrity that focus on fashion, performance, quality and pushing the limits of design. Engineered Floors. What retailers had to say. “EF

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Floor Covering News

MAY 15, 2023

With five new members, FCA Network continues to add more quality flooring dealers to the fold. I’m thrilled with the response from the members—they are so engaged and ready to do business,” Olga Robertson, FCA Network president, told Floor Covering News. “In As Brett Reed, owner of Salina Appliance & Flooring, Salina, Kan.,

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 18, 2020

With the gravity of the coronavirus (COVID-19) gripping the nation, the government mandating social distancing and schools and businesses closed or on hiatus across the country, flooring dealers have been forced to react quickly to this fluid situation. This stinks,” said Lauren Voit, owner of Great Western Flooring in Naperville, Ill.,

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Kitchen and Residential Design

MAY 20, 2012

Kitchen and Residential Design. Notes and anecdotes from the design world. We talked about nothing but through Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah and Nevada. kitchen design. interior design. bath design. flooring. (30). wholesale flooring. (1). Interior Design Blogs|Mpression. 20 May 2012.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 29, 2020

Fairfield, Iowa—Creative Edge, Creative Edge, a leader in the use of water jet technology to fabricate architectural surfaces including natural stone, ceramic and porcelain tile, vinyl and more, has launched Safe Distance Flooring to help businesses keep employees and customers safe while navigating the re-opening process.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Frazier’s Carpet One Floor & Home is among a bevy of flooring retailers seeing robust renovation activity. By Ken Ryan It has been well chronicled that business for the vast majority of flooring retailers have flourished since the stay-at-home economy sprouted from the COVID-19 pandemic. For Anniston, Ala.-based

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

When you hear floor covering tradeshow you expect a room full of paradoxically similar product and a dusty pitch touting sales acumen. In addition, at the show it was announced that RollMaster, a flooring industry-specific software company, had also been acquired by Broadlume. By Megan Salzano—Sarasota, Fla.—When

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Floor Covering News

MAY 5, 2021

The flooring industry was not immune to these impacts as plant shutdowns and retail showroom pauses put a crimp on product introductions. In fact, new product offerings and line extensions were robust in 2020 in what turned out to be a better-than-expected year for most flooring retailers and distributors. Bellera by Shaw Floors.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 21, 2020

As flooring retailers navigate through unchartered waters during this coronavirus outbreak, they have increasingly tapped into their enterprising skills to keep business going. ” – Kelby Frederick, co-CEO, My Flooring America Texas. ” – Lauren Voit, owner, Great Western Flooring. Davenport, Iowa.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 25, 2023

And only those with superior skills will be able to survive against local big boxes who leverage their national advertising and buying power to feed on consumers’ appetites for low-cost flooring. Zeigler Sons Floor Covering, Hanover, Pa., told Floor Covering News. “To To try to take them head-on is a mistake.” pointed out. “We

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Floor Covering News

MAY 6, 2020

Ted’s Abbey Flooring reported a robust start to May following a better than expected April. Flooring retail stores are among those establishments getting the green light as business slowly returns to some semblance of normalcy during the coronavirus pandemic. Flooring stores hope the reopening helps revive business.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 15, 2022

So if you’re on the floor and you’re working with the customer and she is falling in love with a product, the dealer will know by looking at a spreadsheet what’s available. They can’t install the floors if there are no windows. It really took a toll on designers. These designers were used to doing one reselect a month.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 20, 2021

The webinar series is designed to reach the hardest-hit small business owners across the country with regionally focused conversations connecting them to local resources and to give them the steps they need to build back better, according to the organization. Thursday, July 8, 2021 – 2 p.m. Thursday, July 15, 2021 – 2 p.m.

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