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Ceramic: The pros and cons of natural stone

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6/13, 2020: Volume 35, Issue 14. When it comes to natural stone, specialty retail has it tough. However, natural stone has its advantages—i.e., From a retailer’s perspective, opportunity for consumers to splurge on natural stone is high across a number of categories—kitchen, bath and outdoor included.

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Ceramic: Suppliers boost value with innovation in color, size and installation for 2020

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March 2/9, 2020: Volume 35, Issue 18. economy heading into 2020 with a hopeful outlook and poised for growth—unemployment is down and consumer confidence is on the rise—the time for tile to shine is now. We love LVT—we sell LVT—but there is a huge market outside of LVT,” said Manny Llerena, director of sales and marketing, MSI. “We

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Innovation steals the show at TISE 2020

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February 2/10, 2020: Volume 35, Issue 16. 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. Vendors step up their game in a big way. By FCNews staff.

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Coverings 2022 shines light on innovation, design

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increase from 2020,” he said. Coverings 2022 was shaped around three tenants: “Wellness & Environment,” “Timeless Luxury” and “Outdoor Living Spaces.” First and foremost is the ongoing growth of indoor/outdoor tile. unveiled Lith at the show, a new indoor/outdoor collection. There was 2.23 Imports comprised 71.7%

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Our Favorite Fall Tile Designs

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Fall is being outdoors with friends and family, enjoying the blue skies and puffy white clouds at one of Virginia’s beautiful wineries, sipping on red wine and eating every cider doughnut I can find!! Onyx natural stone field tile. Our stock cement-look porcelain On Square , in Lavagna Natural; 2. What is Fall to me?

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Trendspotting: Mills step outside the box

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The fact residential carpet grew by 13% in the 2020 fourth quarter, according to industry estimates, is no fluke. These types of products are beautiful companions to wood, natural stone and other hard surface products.”. This wool look-alike is a 100% solution-dyed, UV-stabilized polysilk, which can be used indoors and outdoors.

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Ceramic: Producers push innovation as consumption falls

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Many ceramic leaders agree that by the end of 2019 the category will have remained flat or declined by approximately 3% in both volume and dollar sales. construction starts will slip to $776 billion in 2020, a 4% decline from 2019 estimated levels. Raj Shah, president, MSI, noted a slowdown in new home sales as well.