Floor Covering News

MAY 16, 2023

Lux Flooring’s SPC products feature a 22-mil thickness and a virgin stone core for added durability. W hile some flooring companies aim to be many different things to many different retailers—providing a breadth of product categories from wood to resilient to ceramic—Lux Flooring’s focus is singular: SPC luxury vinyl flooring.

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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. We’ve had great traffic at the show,” said Micah Hand, director of market- ing and product management, Florida Tile. “I

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 30, 2021

By Megan Salzano Las Vegas—While the show floor at the 2021 edition of the International Surface Event (TISE) may not have been as chock-full of flooring suppliers as we’re used to, there certainly was no lack of innovation in the space. Most products on the market use limestone, which is a very soft stone—it’s cheap. to worry about.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 8, 2022

—After expanding nationally in 2021, LSI Flooring —a national flooring products, sales and marketing agency —took over Daltonian Flooring’s carpet and rug padding business this year. LSI padding products are made of extremely-high-density polyurethane with applications in both contract and residential markets.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 19, 2021

By Ken Ryan Alliance Flooring held its Connect ’21 Virtual Product Showcase March 15-17, an online event that brought together members and suppliers virtually for new product and merchandising introductions in advance of the upcoming selling season. The rising costs have forced suppliers to increase pricing on a range of products.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Shaw is maintaining its 2021 strategy of phased introductions to ensure it can offer the hallmark service on which it prides itself. Up to this point, only Anderson Tuftex had a pet-focused collection, Pet Protect, which became a Lowe’s exclusive in 2021. to $3.99, product only, depending on the style. SPC/rigid core.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 18, 2023

I n 2021, during the height of the pandemic, my husband and I opened our first home improvement retail store: Blue Mist Paint & Flooring in Spartanburg S.C. Chasing the dream Since our initial opening, we have moved to a better, more fitting location and brought on new product lines. I even moved onto installation.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 21, 2020

With two decades of experience in design and marketing luxury products, Zurfluh will enhance Emser’s strategy and broaden its position in product development and trend forecasting, the company said. With her new insights, the Emser team is excited to see the innovative products that will debut in 2021.”.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 18, 2021

In the second quarter of 2020, residential carpet sales plummeted 23% in volume and 27.4% When all the numbers were crunched for 2020, FCNews research shows overall carpet sales fell 12.5% Total area rug sales fell an estimated 2% to $2.576 billion in 2020, according to industry estimates. billion in 2019. and units gained 9.5%.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Tattersall II by Crescent, a division of Stanton, offers striking color combinations in a traditional tailored plaid carpet design. Year-to-date, encompassing the first and second quarters, residential sales are down 3.4% versus the year-ago period, according to industry estimates; Q2 residential sales, meanwhile, are down 5.4%.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 26, 2023

While 2021 saw about 40,000 people converge on the Mart—an increase from the year prior—Byron Morton, vice president and co-head of leasing, NeoCon, said the 2023 show welcomed more than 50,000 attendees. Products, programming and people are integral to NeoCon’s DNA and we think all three elements were super strong this year.”

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 3, 2022

By Megan Salzano-Birch—After a strong showing in 2021, Coverings 2022, the largest international tile and stone exhibition and conference in North America, will again be hosted as an in-person trade show event —this time in Las Vegas. Coverings 2022 marks the second time the event will be held live since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 3, 2021

We saw the Main Street market pull back,” said Blakley Satterfield, product manager, residential resilient for Mannington, echoing a familiar sentiment. Home renovations were the first to see an investment, with Main Street seeing a pickup in Q1 [2021].”. Owners struggled and there were mandates on how they could operate.”.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 27, 2022

flooring industry went on a wild ride dating back to third quarter 2020, which carried through to the end of 2021. And freight expenses once product reached these shores were through the roof. In 2021, the average selling price of all flooring was $1.33. Back then it was about products like resilient tile and VCT.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 1, 2021

Forbo’s Marmoleum features a wide range of color, design and size options to create multiple looks. Forbo was founded with an expressed focus on linoleum flooring products. Forbo was founded with an expressed focus on linoleum flooring products. They keep coming out with new products even though they don’t have any competition.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

“With the residential flooring market seeing a quicker return to pre-COVID-19 trends than traditional commercial sectors, Main Street is well poised to capitalize on commercial flooring needs while leveraging its residential sales channels.”. Main Street has long been a key category for Shaw Contract.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

FCNews spoke with several dealers across the country who have diversified product offerings to gauge the strategies that work best for them. Product offerings: Flooring, window treatments, cabinets, countertops. I had to wait until my father retired in order to expand into other products. Product offerings: Flooring, cabinetry.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Saint-Georges, Canada—Mirage, a leading hardwood flooring brand, has added a new go-to color ideal for any décor this year: Sanibel. Senibel is the latest addition to the DreamVille collection, introduced by Mirage in 2021 to provide consumers with a palette of color variations and brushed textured finishes for a truly distinctive look.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 16, 2023

He has helped push the industry toward greater innovative advancements that made products better. The technologies that we have licensed throughout the years have helped manufacturers produce flooring products that are more durable, longer lasting and require less maintenance than traditional materials.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 21, 2022

FCNews’ fourth annual Industry Disrupters issue features innovative players and thinkers who are changing the game in terms of product enhancements, technological breakthroughs or simply radical new ways of doing business. AHF Products. The company has expanded capacity at each of its eight plants in 2021. Cali Floors.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 16, 2023

SPC and WPC) due primarily to supply chain challenges with some popular, imported resilient products. The question now is will this resurgence continue as supply chain issues surrounding imported SPC/WPC normalize and as domestic production of competing hard surface categories ramp up. Lee is not alone. “We Take Mohawk, for example.

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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. We were able to design impressively clean visuals that enhanced colors vividly and with great intensity.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 10, 2020

Not only is the product particularly unique, but it comes with a set of dos and don’ts consumers are often unaware of or afraid to deal with. 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. Sustainability.

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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% Tim Hiner, senior director of product development and product management for Tarkett, agreed, adding: “There is more interest in making the carpet a focal point of a space.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 12, 2021

Millennials are making a name for themselves in the flooring game, taking the lead on everything from marketing to retail ownership to product design. Some of the roles include accounting, logistics, product development, marketing, HR, sales and operations. director of sales, O’Krent Floors. CEO, Johnson Hardwood.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 22, 2021

Daltile’s Defend tile line features Microban technology to attract consumers looking for healthy, clean floor products. By Megan Salzano Ceramic tile is one of only two truly aspirational product categories available in flooring today—hardwood being the other. Know your tile products and sell them. That’s compared to the 17.8%

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Within the LVT offering, Mannington has included a heavy commercial product, City Line, pictured here. Building on its longstanding success in the Main Street category, Mannington is launching a new, updated and refreshed product offering and re-branding of the program, now called Mannington on Main. Calhoun, Ga.—Building

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The top suppliers, many floor covering retailers agree, are the ones that help specialty retailers maintain healthy profit margins—especially in an extremely competitive environment inundated with so many me-too products jockeying for market share. They stand behind their products, they don’t play games with us.

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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

JUNE 30, 2022

The word “unprecedented” has aptly described the unexpected growth the flooring industry experienced in 2021 despite supply chain challenges, rising costs and the ongoing effects of the pandemic. In terms of volume, the category accounted for 5.881 billion square feet (not including rubber) at the first point of sale, a 9.8%

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 19, 2022

By Jacqueline Hinchcliffe While 2021 was a year of change all over the world regarding lessened COVID-19 restrictions, vaccine developments and regaining a sense of normalcy, it sparked change within businesses as well. One is a ‘service bulletin’ that is given to each installation order at the time of consummating the sale.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

From the abundance of news products, tools and merchandisers on the show floor—to the bevy of educational sessions in the meeting rooms—there were more than enough enticements to get retailers to make the trip. “The Exhibitors’ spaces were packed with opportunities to demo and touch and feel products.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 6, 2021

Up until the pandemic, the company has experienced double-digit growth annually since its inception and expects to finish 2021 at pre-pandemic levels. During that time, she was instrumental in the initial launch of several product lines and managed Mannington’s Surfaces presence for over eight years. Maryanne Adams. Penny Carnino.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 4, 2021

Dalton—This year Shaw Residential embarked on a new approach to its product launches. Rather than unveil everything in January at its regional markets, Surfaces or buying group events, Shaw is taking a phased approach to its bevy of product intros for 2021. Not only on capacities, but sampling, sales force and many other areas.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 21, 2021

Oberlin, Ohio— The Natural Stone Institute (NSI) awarded Barbara Cohen its Migliore Award for Lifetime Achievement, Katie Jensen with the 2021 Women in Stone Pioneer Award and Brie Pfannenbecker with the 2020 Person of the Year Award. Barbara Cohen. She was instrumental in her company donating stone to multiple Gary Sinise Foundation R.I.S.E

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 27, 2021

T oday, consumers want to know where a brand’s products are coming from and how they’re produced; they’re interested in sustainable business practices. Armstrong Flooring is boldly walking into the future with a revitalized brand, an optimized collection of flooring products and adaptive solutions for its customers.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 26, 2023

Commercial flooring rebounded as sales increased 13.1% billion in 2021 to $7.34 This growth built on momentum witnessed by the industry at the end of 2021 as business conditions improved. flooring sales, according to Floor Covering News research. from roughly $6.5 billion in 2022, Floor Covering News research shows.

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