Floor Covering News

JANUARY 10, 2020

To be successful with the category, retailers are tasked with educating themselves and the consumer on its pros and cons in order to facilitate a successful sale and installation. 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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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 12, 2021

Flooring retailers reported sales of carpet improved sharply last year—in part due to the home renovation surge ushered in by the COVID-19 pandemic as well as technology improvements that have created a more desirable product. “Our We were able to design impressively clean visuals that enhanced colors vividly and with great intensity.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 1, 2022

T he comeback that was predicted in 2020 after ceramic flooring sales experienced its first downward trajectory in several years was right on point as 2021 saw vast improvement across the board. ceramic tile category saw high single-digit growth in 2021 compared to 2020. In 2021, the cat egory also represented 26.4%

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Floor Covering News

JULY 14, 2022

R esidential carpet sales grew an impressive 17.2% in 2021, according to FCNews estimates, while the average selling price rose 7% last year and 12.7% People are looking for style and design in the high-end part of the soft surface market,” said Don Karlin, director of broadloom sales, Nourison. in Q1 2022. Home values rising.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 22, 2021

Despite tile’s ongoing growth for several years, the category hit a snag in 2019 and 2020 as sales dropped and growth stagnated. Industry experts have pointed to challenges like labor shortages, supply issues and rising costs as the culprits, but 2021 presents unique opportunities. So, what gives?

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

More importantly, he said re-bookings were for TISE 2021 were “very strong,” with the sales office on the show floor packed daily with exhibitors rebooking steadily for next year. “We We had companies not currently exhibiting for TISE 2020 also come to the sales office and inquire to book for the following year,” Hicks added.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 17, 2021

The third quarter was strong; the fourth quarter was even better, setting the stage for what has already been an incredible start to 2021. When the dust cleared and all the numbers were counted, total industry sales fell just short of 2019’s numbers at $22.951 billion, a decline of 0.5%. Sure, commercial business took a big hit.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 21, 2021

Continuing its downward trajectory, ceramic tile sales in 2020 experienced a low, single-digit decline in terms of overall dollar sales and similar declines in terms of volume. Ceramic tile sales in 2020 declined roughly 5%. of dollar sales for the gradually increasing hard surface market and 24.6% Imports vs. domestics.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

suppliers are touting record-high sales in 2021 and expected ongoing growth as a result of changing consumer habits and a booming housing market —both spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic. Taking a look at the numbers, through Q2 2021 total U.S. In addition, through Q2 2021, the U.S. Ceramic residential sales in the U.S.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 17, 2022

The company has grown significantly within the last several years, and was acquired in June 2021 by global flooring company Victoria PLC. The England-based company employs about 3,800 people across 25 sites in the UK, Europe and Australia with approximately $1 billion in annual sales. We’re also going to offer more outdoors.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Mike Gallman, president of Mohawk Group (second from left) speaks with Geoff Gordon, executive director of Fuse Alliance, during NeoCon 2021. The collection’s color tones reference back to estuaries, Page said. By far the designs are on point,” said David Kurtz, vice president of commercial sales.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Although COVID-19 initially slowed sales of natural stone, we have seen a sudden uptick as a result of the renewed focus on home improvement,” explained Raj Shah, president, MSI Surfaces. “Of 2021 will see that continue. Today, we are seeing significant growth in the outdoor use of stone,” MSI’s Shah said. Challenges remain.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In 2021, ceramic finally saw some relief as the category registered gains for the first time in two years. versus August 2021. Coming off the initial boon to business in 2021, the housing market has started to experience decline across the board. What’s more promising is total consumption in value, which the TCNA reported as $3.03

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 15, 2022

Hill noted that Americans applied to start over 5 million new businesses in 2021, 20% higher than any other year on record. Carpet tile is the second fastest growing segment, with sales up about 15% year-over- year. This strong recovery is likely due, at least in part, to government recovery programs.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Cali pulled out all the stops, exhibiting products across categories—from its growing vinyl portfolio all the way to outdoor flooring options, including decking, rugs and turf. Our customers are very glad Shaw Floors is back at Surfaces,” said Steve Sieracki, senior vice president of residential sales. “We Since Jan.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 6, 2021

The last few years the hardwood category has lost share to these categories, but hardwood is rebounding and getting back to growth in 2021,” said Brad Williams, vice president of sales and marketing at Boa-Franc, makers of the Mirage brand. sales and marketing, Indusparquet. “In We see wide width demand in 3?4-inch

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