Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

and Texas The workshops, spanning three hours in the afternoon or evening, are open to tile installers, contractors, sales personnel and members of the architecture and design community. The NTCA Reference Manual serves as a guiding resource throughout the training. Workshops will be held in: Calif.,

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 12, 2023

FCICA suppliers provided product demonstrations over the course of the two-day event. A total of 156 people registered to attend the event and 39 member companies exhibited during the product showcase. In addition, the event included several educational sessions as well as two keynote presentations. Tucson, Ariz.—FCICA,

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Atlanta—Coverings, the preeminent event for the ceramic tile and natural stone industry in North America, has revealed a select lineup of featured educational opportunities for Coverings 2024 , which will take place April 22-25, 2024, here at the Georgia World Congress Center (GWCC).

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The bigger your sales and marketing teams get, the harder it is to align these efforts. Often called “smarketing,” sales and marketing alignment is critical to ensure that these departments are working in tandem to target the right customer base, create more conversions and drive more sales. Not sure how to get started?

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The Pulse: Ardex Americas

JANUARY 20, 2016

ARDEX Sales Professional William White co-presented to the Starnet group at Surfaces along side Michael Whistler, National Tile Contractors Association and Jim Whitfield, Mapei Technical Director.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 26, 2022

“Coverings has earned a reputation for providing tile and stone professionals with access to exclusive resources, programs and educational opportunities not available anywhere else,” said Jennifer Hoff, president of Taffy Event Strategies, the event planning company for Coverings. “At Three educational stages. Coverings Lounge.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 17, 2023

The newly renovated digital platform, created exclusively for Mohawk retailers, will now home highlights from the event, including engaging digital programs, the latest in innovative technologies and consumer insights and trends. The post Mohawk adds exclusive Edge Summit resources online appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 17, 2023

L a s V ega s —The 2023 International Surface Event highlighted the vigor with which the flooring industry is facing today. And to give the retailers an easier way to work and communicate with their manufacturers while working together to bring opportunities to sales.” Mobile showrooms are big now,” Aya noted.

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Diary of a Tile Addict

JANUARY 27, 2024

These two events impacted me so much that in 2004 I decided to leave the sector. While you are focused on new developments, your competition is becoming stronger in your market with the development and sale of traditional products. You always have to master the production system and the sales channel.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Chicago—The North American Association of Flooring Covering Distributors (NAFCD) and the North American Building Material Distribution Association (NBMDA) said they have further strengthened their long-time partnership during the COVID-19 pandemic to bring forth resources and programs to meet the specific needs of the distribution channel.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Las Vegas—For the second year in a row Mohawk was a multiple winner in the 2024 Best of Surfaces competition, a contest cosponsored by Floor Covering News and Informa Exhibitions, which owns and operates The International Surface Event (TISE). The waterproof quality and using the pool noodle to explain it stood out,” Yelland said.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 25, 2020

With its biennial Summit canceled this summer due to COVID-19, Alliance Flooring staged Connect 2020 , a virtual buying and networking event for members (see page 3). Content was also made available on-demand for those dealers who were unable to watch the event live. An educated sales professional can be the No. Shaw Floors.

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Diary of a Tile Addict

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

metres of tiles, achieving total sales of Euro 45.3 Raw material consumption is minimised by cutting waste and turning it into usable resources. Recer has a global perspective, and is thus a familiar presence at major international events, like Cersaie and Coverings. In 2022, Recer produced around 5 million sq.

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Diary of a Tile Addict

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

metres of tiles, achieving total sales of Euro 45.3 Raw material consumption is minimised by cutting waste and turning it into usable resources. Recer has a global perspective, and is thus a familiar presence at major international events, like Cersaie and Coverings. In 2022, Recer produced around 5 million sq.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 6, 2021

As Mannington Mills’ senior director of corporate communications, she is responsible for public relations as well as internal communications and can be seen wearing several hats at once, including spokesperson, community liaison, event manager, press liaison and speechwriter. She leads flooring events in Germany, Shanghai, America and Turkey.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 8, 2021

He is an MBA graduate with a strong background in sales, marketing and business development. Emanuel has supported the association’s safety committee and multiple networking events and has also provided equipment resources for the association’s testing lab.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Las Vegas—The resilient category had a lot to live up to coming into The International Surface Event this year, which kicked off here Jan. We’re several shows in] since January started—our SFN event was in Orlando and that was the most successful event we’ve had—so we’re carrying a lot of that energy into Vegas.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

I would probably say the market’s going to be, at best, flat, maybe even a little bit down,” said Dick Quinlan, VP of sales and marketing, Wellmade. There’s still a lot of pricing mechanization going on, and as a result I think you’re going to see dollar sales will probably be down. Units might be flat.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 21, 2022

Today, the group is led by Winters together with industry consultant and longtime FCNews columnist, Lisbeth Calandrino, as well as Rachel Berlin, sales manager at Precision Floors & De?cor, Over three years ago we began taking steps to protect ourselves in the event this kind of thing happened,” T.M. cor, Sheboygan, Wis.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

JANUARY 30, 2012

Twelve years got me oriented in the tile world, in charge of sales and marketing for what was basically a small company where we not only made our tiles by hand but also made all the machinery we used to make the tiles. So we have the resources to research what’s found in the home. It’s a huge body of work available as a resource.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 2, 2020

The Playbook, an online resource containing videos, content and digital marketing materials among other tools, is designed to help dealers sell more flooring in 2020 and beyond. We recommend flooring dealers bring their marketing and sales teams along to market so they can dedicate time to attending each of the playbook sessions offered.”.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 5, 2020

We met with Casey [Johnson, CEO] and they can work on lower minimums that I felt comfortable hitting in terms of what our sales projections could be. His goal at convention was to sell 100 pallets; he sold 120 by the end of the trade show, with more commitments coming after the event. Casey knocked it out of the park with this one.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

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). Brian Belliston, sales, Westco Carpet and Interiors, Orem, Utah, shared in Griffin’s excitement. “RI

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Edge Store is designed to give retailers the resources they need to grow their businesses, expand their reach, drive customers in store and close sales. The company has reimagined its showroom support program, Five Star, as Edge Store in 2023.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 5, 2020

Flooring retailers, including those looking to gain back lost dollars from the growing popularity of vinyl products, would do well to turn to tile and stone, which offers high dollar sales and high margins, according to suppliers at The International Surface Event (TISE) held in Las Vegas earlier this year. “We Boosting retail sales.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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. “We The show floor was busy all three days of the event. Inspiration. Design capabilities.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The lookbooks feature interactive videos and technologies that combine hard and soft surface designs, providing RSAs a digital resource to help shoppers envision how Karastan carpets will bring effortless style to any room. “We The post Karastan to reinvigorate its soft surface portfolio appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 12, 2021

Some of the roles include accounting, logistics, product development, marketing, HR, sales and operations. Today, as president and CEO of Nonn’s, he runs the largest independent flooring operation in Wisconsin, approaching close to $100M in sales. director of sales, O’Krent Floors. Gail Forster, sales/design, Precision Flooring.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 5, 2023

By connecting with other aligned businesses, you can share knowledge, resources and leads. Following are some tried-and-true networking tips: Attend networking events. Get their business card and after the event send them a handwritten note telling them how much you enjoyed meeting them and learning about their business.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 31, 2023

Perfect your sales presentation Excellence in sales is achieved by practicing three simple steps: repeat, improve and perfect. Create a technique to use the customer’s name in your sales presentation. And if you currently don’t participate meaningfully in commercial sales, you might consider expanding your focus in 2023.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 23, 2020

Chicago—On June 1, NeoCon will launch NeoConnect 2020—a series of online resources, programming and events hosted on neocon.com and designed to virtually connect the NeoCon community. NeoCon has brought the commercial design industry together every June since 1969,” said Byron Morton, VP of sales for NeoCon.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 3, 2020

“Originally, we planned to keep our schedule and hold a digital event in August,” said Rick Bennet, co-CEO of CCA Global Partners. Virtual event addresses challenges ahead. “But The event boasts a robust agenda that will take place throughout June. A robust agenda for members.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 25, 2023

Accepting new forms of cashless or peer-to-peer (P2P) payments, such as Zelle, at your business’ point of sale. Business owners are taking advantage of free educational resources It’s never too late to learn. Unfortunately, small businesses are becoming increasingly popular targets for hackers and scammers.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 13, 2021

Hannover, Germany—As Domotex prepares to enter its 33rd season, its 2022 show, to be held here January 13-16, “Cover New Ground” will be the event’s lead theme. The show’s organizers and exhibitors said they are correspondingly optimistic and looking forward to a lively event in January.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Most companies and startups know this and invest significant resources into collaboration activities. An example of this is what the sales demo creation and optimization platform Walnut has done with its #weareprospects movement, which aimed to optimize the B2B buying experience effectively. Shared events.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 9, 2023

We were co-chairmen of the Billion Dollar Sale, which raised the level of sales in the entire industry. It came out of when we did the Billion Dollar Sale. There’s no golden liquidity event of us selling. Alan Greenberg. Alan and I became instant friends. We helped found the American Floor Covering Association together.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

“We have invaluable resources, programs, educational offerings and strategic partnerships designed to equip floor covering distributors with the tools they need to be successful. Our goal is to ensure every distributor can capitalize on these resources.”

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