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5 Unexpected Ways to Use Tile in Your Home

Architectural Ceramics

January 2016 – Rockville, MD – Tile is everywhere. Unless you’re a cowboy, you probably see tile on a daily basis. The utility of tile in residential and commercial spaces provides a ubiquitous flora and fauna of shapes, texture, and color to the masses. Tile and installing it really is an art-form.

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What keeps retailers up at night 2024

Floor Covering News

Until the Fed lowers interest rates, existing home sales can be expected to remain slower than usual. However, when grays took over, it was easy to stock five different variations of gray and still sell the crap out of them whether it was flooring, carpet or tile.” — Lacey Gillespie , Pro Floor & Tile Fergus Falls, Minn.

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Daltile names Statements Dealer advisory board

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“The Statements Elite Daltile Dealer Program is an exclusive Daltile program geared to the top dealers throughout the United States,” said Patrick Warren, vice president of residential sales, dealer, and showrooms for Dal-Tile Corporation. “In Phil Koufidakis, Baker Brothers (Phoenix, Ariz.). Dan Huffman, Tile Expo, Inc.

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Lux Flooring’s laser focus on SPC

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of total resilient sales in 2021 and 34.8% Chris Drake, manager for Wally’s Carpet & Tile, which has two retail locations in southern California, agreed, noting that Lux Flooring has quickly become the retailer’s No. Enrique Garcia-Puga, administrative assistant at Gonzalez Carpet Supplies in Phoenix, Ariz., 1 supplier.

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Envisioning the ‘new retail normal’

Floor Covering News

By that stage of the sale we know the customers’ personal preferences and have had the opportunity to ask them whether they want installers to be wearing a mask—everyone has declined.”. which services the Phoenix market, it’s business as usual a year and a half after the outbreak in the U.S. “I in Phoenix. Steady as she goes.

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Daltile’s advisory meeting tackles Statements Dealer Program

Floor Covering News

The Daltile Statements ‘Store Within A Store’ program is designed to simplify the tile selection process for retailers. The ultimate goal is to equip our retail partners for success with our products and increase retailer sales.”. Advisory board members for the Daltile Statements Dealer Program include: Dan Huffman, Tile Expo, Inc.

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Daltile Statements program proves its worth to the flooring dealer

Floor Covering News

According to Patrick Warren, vice president of residential sales, dealer and showrooms, Daltile’s residential remodel business was up almost double digits in 2022, but Daltile Statements dealers outpaced that growth. “As At the same time, Daltile has built the merchandising so the retail sales associate can close that sale.