Floor Covering News

MARCH 8, 2021

By Ken Ryan T he winter storm and cold snap that led to interruptions and closures for flooring retailers and distributors across Texas and Oklahoma is one for the history books. The mid-February Southwest big freeze and weather onslaught won’t soon be forgotten by flooring professionals who lived it. Tracking the toll.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Houston—Swiff-Train Company has appointed Kay Ward to the newly created position of business unit manager, tile division. This role will encompass all aspects of the company’s tile business, including development, sales and strategic placement and marketing across many company channels.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 15, 2023

In fact, many successful flooring retailers know when to turn away business, even telling potential customers that they might be better served going elsewhere. We want customers to love the style and design of the products. Have you installed any new flooring in your showroom? And then we will discuss price and performance.”

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 17, 2021

By Ken Ryan The never-ending task of recruiting and training installers has been a flooring industry bugaboo for decades. That said, it is crucial for flooring retailers to keep the good ones. Even when business was down about 40% in April and May (2020), Brian’s Flooring & Design in Birmingham, Ala., Cash is king.

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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. Year-to-date, sales in our two retail stores are up a combined 23% over last year.”.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 18, 2022

By Megan Salzano-Birch—Las Vegas— Coverings 2022 was a showcase in innovative product design and immersive technology, which is thriving within the ceramic and stone category today despite obvious obstacles. Coverings 2022 saw 750 exhibitors and more than 30 countries represented on the show floor. They’re excited to see us.”.

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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

JUNE 29, 2021

Las Vegas—The NFA specialty vendor showcase that convenes on the eve of Surfaces has been called the most meaningful four hours in flooring—a forum that allows more than two dozen vendors to meet with 43 of the most influential flooring retailers in the industry, all in one room. This show is great,” he told FCNews. “It

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 14, 2021

As is customary, Mohawk will have a dramatic presence at the big show, in this case showcasing new or newly released products from several of its leading brands. Rose Carpets & Flooring, Burlington, Mass. We always look forward to improving how we do business and will undoubtedly come back with new ideas.”.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 17, 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. Flooring 101. What Lions Floor had to say.

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

Footprints Floors, the flooring installation franchise with more than 160 active territories across 35 states, continues on its upward growth track. “In Specifically, the Footprints Floors team is targeting California, New Jersey, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Virginia, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Maryland for expansion.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Whether it’s starting over or starting from scratch, opening your own flooring store takes time, dedication and the ability to think on your feet. Conway Flooring Muncie, Ind. In 2022, he saw his sales quadruple. Quest for the Best Place to Buy Flooring.’” Get Floored Myrtle Beach, S.C.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

Houston— Swiff-Train Company has newly appointed Cole Hood as the company’s director of sales for Swiff-Train Distribution. In this role, Cole will lead the Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi sales teams for all channels.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

B elknap-Haines’ acquisition of Houston-based STC (formerly Swiff-Train) expands the territory of the industry’s top-ranked distributor well beyond its East Coast roots. Moreover, with the STC purchase, Belknap-Haines’ 2022 sales are projected to be $700 million. . Our goal is to be the best flooring distributor in the U.S.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 15, 2024

gross domestic product (GDP) in recent quarters, but that outlay has not trickled down to the flooring sector to the same degree. Flooring retailers in the U.S. Flooring retailers in the U.S. While some flooring retailers say business is actually up from 2023, most say it is flat to down a few percentage points.

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MAY 20, 2022

Houston, Texas—While OneFlor USA may be just getting started, there is no shortage of commercial flooring experience within its team, according to the company. All of the OneFlor USA executive team members are career leaders in the flooring industry with a focus on the resilient category. Andrew Heeter, VP sales.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The American Flooring Distributor lineup comprises SPC rigid core flooring and waterproof laminate. T he hyper-competitive segment like waterproof flooring —particularly SPC and waterproof laminate—has ushered in a bevy of new players looking to get in on the action. American Flooring Distributor (AFD) is one of those companies.

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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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AUGUST 21, 2020

Houston—EarthWerks takes the wraps off its new visualizer tool, EarthWerks Visions. The technology is designed to provide a streamlined, customizable approach t o finding and matching flooring to customers’ spaces. The post EarthWerks introduces new visualizer tool appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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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

JANUARY 31, 2022

Inflation is here for the immediate future and we can expect more price increases on everyday items like gas, groceries, dining out and flooring, in particular. They just raised their sales volume by 25% over the past year with the five increases without installing one additional yard of carpet. .

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FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The National Wood Flooring Association Expo moved from Baltimore in April to Orlando in July. Mohawk understood the importance of getting its new products in front of customers, especially given it was the biggest launch in its near 150-year history. Seeing new product live is paramount to his business. “I The reason?

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Floor Covering News

MAY 14, 2021

By Ken Ryan As summer approaches, floor covering distributors are on heightened alert over a series of transportation issues that may impact deliveries and eat into their bottom lines. Our biggest challenge right now is getting accurate shipping and delivery information on products that come from overseas.”.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 26, 2021

Mohawk said it recognized the need for retailers to see new products for the spring selling season against a backdrop where most other shows had been canceled or postponed. The main difference is that in previous Dallas markets a retailer might bring six or seven people,” said Trey Thames, senior vice president, residential sales, Mohawk.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 23, 2023

By Rob Persons—The general move toward e-commerce and online shopping spells opportunities for specialty flooring retailers—whether they are fully, 100% mobile or if mobile showrooms are just an extension of their brick-and-mortar operation. based Carolina In Home Flooring, has been operating mobile showrooms since 2010.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 13, 2021

When my father, Bruce Caress, and his partners started Redi Carpet in a small building in Houston in 1981, he had a vision. Although small in size, he believed there was a viable opportunity in the local multi-family flooring market for next-day carpet installation.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Lions Floor has taken another big step toward building its national supply chain infrastructure with the recent grand opening of a new, state-of-the-art distribution center in Houston. In addition to flooring products, we have moldings, transitions and moisture barriers. Lions Floor is not one of those companies.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2022

According to their son, Raj Shah, president, it’s in the company’s DNA to continuously find ways to engineer methodologies in logistics, product innovation and merchandising and marketing strategies to make flooring and countertops more affordable and accessible to the consumer without sacrificing manufacturer or retailer profitability.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 18, 2022

Jerry Guo, president of Lions Floor, previewing samples of some of the company’s latest rigid core products at Surfaces earlier this year. By Reginald Tucker—Some suppliers take a “one-size-fits-all” approach in their product development and marketing efforts. Lions Floor is not one of those companies.

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AUGUST 22, 2022

Every generation or so something comes along that truly changes the game for flooring retailers. By then, it is expected that Carpet One and Flooring America retailers will have the tools necessary to transform their businesses. . was to put members ahead of the pack,” added Keith Spano, president of Flooring America. “The

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Production is expected to rise an additional 5% to 1.03 million this year—marking the first year that total annual single-family production has exceeded 1 million since the Great Recession. The problem is a dearth of new and existing homes for sale. The number of existing homes for sale has never been lower,” said Berson.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 27, 2023

Like I said at the beginning, I just want to bring value to the group,” Newton told Floor Covering News. Whatever we can do, whether it’s speakers, products or opportunity, it’s all about value.” “Like I said at the beginning, I just want to bring value to the group,” Newton told Floor Covering News. It’s her every time.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

20, 2021, flooring industry leaders are mulling what impact President-elect Joe Biden and his policies might have on business. Stimulus was vital in a rapid restart of our economy and can only help again,” said Craig Phillips, president, Carpet Country and Barrington Carpet & Flooring Design, Twinsburg, Ohio. By Ken Ryan.

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