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Industry associations ramp up training efforts

Floor Covering News

Organizations across the industry are updating their training and educational programs to aid installers, sales representatives and other flooring professionals in perfecting their craft. CFI’s hardwood training courses cover everything from how to install a floating floor to direct glue down or stapling. “We

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Avente Tile Talk: Avente Tile Owner Selected to Participate in.

Tile Talk

Since its inception in 2003, Avente Tiles online tile showroom has sold hand-painted ceramic tile, handmade cement tile, and artisan tiles through various channels of the internet, including our website , this blog, Facebook , Twitter , Houzz , guest posts, and most importantly, word of mouth and repeat business. floor tile.

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NSI names 2023 award winners

Floor Covering News

Rea returned to Coldspring in the role of a drafter and by 2003 was promoted to senior vice president of commercial sales. The post NSI names 2023 award winners appeared first on Floor Covering News. Nominations for the 2023 Migliore Award are being accepted until May 20.

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Catalina and CTaSC Announces the Release of the 2013 Stone Report

CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

The residential remodeling market is also benefiting from the increase in existing home sales and the rise in home prices. The increase in existing home sales stimulates homeowner remodeling projects and the rise in home prices is an incentive for non-movers to invest in their homes and upgrade to stone countertops and flooring.

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Cali names Jay Flynn to executive leadership team

Floor Covering News

Flynn spent the last three years as VP of sales at Broadlume, in charge most recently of new dealer sales for the Flooring Store United program. Before that, he spent 13 years at DCSPG, which provided technology-based tools and resources to support builder design centers and flooring retailers.

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Executives ponder feasibility of a national distributor

Floor Covering News

W ith the industry’s top-tier distributors (Belknap-Haines, Tri-West and Galleher) growing organically and through acquisition—gobbling up regions and states in the process—could the stage be set for the emergence of a bonafide national flooring distributor? Flooring historians will recall that former heavyweights L.D. Tri-West Ltd.,

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A Brief History of Carpet Tiles

Focus Floors and Furnishings

The concept of flooring tile goes back thousands of years when hard surfaces of various rock forms, baked clay, and ceramic were being used. The early users of these initial tile flooring types needed something to cover their dirt floors that were of a size that could be easily carried to where the floor was located.

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