Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

—The National Tile Contractors Association ( NTCA ) trainers will be touring nine states, offering 17 free, standards-based workshops and eight free regional trainings this year—nearly double the number provided in 2023. The content is aligned with industry standards and methods, ensuring relevance and applicability.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

These awards honor groundbreaking ideas and industry-changing concepts that have the potential to impact the way flooring is manufactured, promoted and sold. Following are the 2023 winners: Carpet Tarkett Home Cloud 9 Tarkett Home set out to challenge the belief that polyester carpets can’t be both incredibly soft and highly durable.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

TDG is upping the ante on its digital strategy for 2023 by partner with several technology providers, like Broadlume. Broadlume – A digital program provides aligned retail dealers access to more consumers and a robust digital-to-physical shopping experience proven to increase lead generation, sales and customer satisfaction.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 14, 2023

“The Main Street marketplace is—and always will be—a driver in the market economy,” said Glenn King, vice president of sales, Southeast region, Stanton Carpet. There have been concerns about higher inflation and rising interest rates within the lending industry over the past year,” King added.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

In late 2023, Renew Lab Partners, an investment firm headquartered in Sandy Springs, Ga., acquired Dalton-based Professional Testing Laboratory (PTL), a leading testing company that works with players across the floor covering industry. We’ve never really had a sales force that goes out and visits clients,” he explained.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 5, 2022

It’s common knowledge among industry observers that commercial tends to lag behind residential activity—at least during normal business cycles anyway. Preliminary FCNews research shows the commercial flooring market totaled $6.488 billion in sales in 2021, an uptick of 6% over 2020. Hard surfaces shine.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 3, 2023

These awards honor groundbreaking ideas and industry-changing concepts that have the potential to impact the way flooring is manufactured, promoted and sold. For retail sales associates, PFC is intended to be the easiest way to sell flooring—with confidence and simplicity. Following are the 2022 winners: Carpet. The Dixie Group. “For

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 21, 2023

While there are still four months left before the calendar turns, category experts agree 2023 will likely see the first resilient sales decline for the category. The consensus among the major resilient flooring suppliers is that once the dust clears, 2023 will see resilient sales down mid-to-high single digits.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Take Raskin Industries for example. See spotlight on page 18 of this issue.) SPC still reigns While SPC may have taken some heavy hits in 2023, it’s still the rigid core construction to beat. The company has also diversified its sourcing after the challenges that arose in 2023. “We

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Featured were some of the industry’s most accomplished dealers from both influential buying groups to no affiliation at all. In other words, it reflected the retail industry as a whole. Combine that with the local sales representation, Shaw’s distribution and their gold standard customer service, it was a win for everyone.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 4, 2022

FCNews publisher, Steven Feldman, recently sat down for a few hours with one of the few people in this industry who still commands the title “Mr.” Feldman and Mr. Shaw talked at length about Engineered Floors (EF), the industry at large and global/national dynamics that are shaping the world today. Are you betting on an industry?

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 29, 2022

AHF Products, for example, has one of the most robust domestic production operations as any supplier in the industry. AHF Products has continued to invest in our domestic operations since our inception three years ago,” said Chris King, senior vice president, sales and marketing, AHF Products. Somerset, Ky.; Oneida and Only, Tenn.;

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Compared to standard engineered wood, laminate and SPC, it’s much harder,” said Milton Goodwin, AHF Products vice president. We wanted to come up with a name that conveyed the depth of the product,” said Kevin Whaley, vice president of sales and marketing for the LM Flooring brand. And the best part is it’s all natural hardwood.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 9, 2023

The installation crisis in the flooring industry is very real, Varden said. Tom Cartmell, branch sales manager, Diverzify. Seth Gladden, director of marketing, industrial flooring division, Meridian Adhesives Group/Taylor Adhesives. Kevin Keefe, national technical sales manager, QEP Roberts.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 18, 2023

Attendees of the CCA Global convention 2023 were treated to a Retail 2.0 Phoenix—The tone for the CCA Global winter convention 2023 here was set the moment CEO, Rick Bennet, walked on stage to start the meeting and declared: “I’m not one for platitudes but we are embarking on the greatest transformation in our history.”.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 26, 2023

With the adoption by Kastamonu, the Unicoat technology will now be used by some of the largest players in the industry in North America, Europe and Asia, according to Unilin. Unicoat protects the floor from spills beyond the standard requirements set by the generally accepted norms.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 5, 2023

This scam is rampant across the industry right now—it’s a huge issue,” said Kelby Frederick, owner of My Flooring America, in Denton, Texas, echoing a sentiment shared by others. Luckily, our operations people intervened because they recognized some of our standards were not met. This way we caught it before we got burned.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Collectively, these potential business roadblocks could impact the way the trucking industry in California operates; in turn, flooring interests across the country who rely on commerce from the West Coast could see prices rise again. A lawsuit had prevented it from affecting the trucking industry. CARB emissions standards.

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Tile of Spain USA

MARCH 23, 2023

This year’s annual event, the first to take place since 2020, was held from February 27 – March 3, 2023 at Feria Valencia, located in Valencia’s center city. The Spanish tile industry surpassed expectations with overall sales increasing by 16.2% since last year. since 2021.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

As it unfolded, the majority of FCNews ’ Top 20 distributors are forecasting sales increases for 2022, including a few with double-digit jumps. . The upward trajectory comes with the caveat that while sales are up, unit volume is down by a greater percentage—an indication most of the growth is occurring organically. now the No.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 21, 2024

Commercial flooring contractors like Joel Bonstell, sales and marketing manager for River City Flooring, Hudsonville, Mich., billion in sales, are numerous. In that same vein, Bonstell said, “Connecting with other members, suppliers and industry experts has led to valuable relationships for River City Flooring.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

T he resilient category has been the powerhouse of the flooring industry for the last several years—with rigid core products leading the charge. VP of residential sales, COREtec. What is your projection for category growth in 2023? The resilient category will grow in 2023 and continue to take share within flooring.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 24, 2024

“Overall, last year was a challenging year with higher interest rates while people not moving hurt the multifamily and builder business,” said Tracy Wyrick, vice president of sales, builder and multifamily, Engineered Floors. “We We expect it to be better this year with the second half being the strongest.”

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 17, 2023

As the company embarks on 2023, it is aiming to provide best-in-class service to the flooring industry—on the same scale as the big national LTL companies like Old Dominion. We’re bringing that level of best-in-class service now to the flooring industry. with us in one of our warehouses you can close the sale today.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 29, 2020

Brand recognition is incredibly low in the industry, and the market isn’t expected to grow any time soon, with projections showing no more than 0.5% expansion year over year between now and 2023. It isn’t easy to be a brand in the flooring industry. Change the focus of the sale. Set expectations for the experience.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 17, 2023

Compared to standard engineered wood, laminate and SPC, it’s much harder,” said Milton Goodwin, AHF Products vice president. Mohawk, for instance, has expanded its popular TecWood line to give retailers and consumers more options in 2023. And the best part is it’s all natural hardwood.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 13, 2024

Floor Covering News ’ annual “People making a difference” special section is a tribute to those in the flooring industry who go about their daily business lives striving to make a positive impact. This year’s list represents all facets of the flooring industry—manufacturing, distribution, retail and installation.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 27, 2023

After the feel-good story that was the 2021 statistical year for carpet—when a COVID-19-led rally helped catapult residential sales to double-digit percentage gains— the pendulum swung the other way in 2022. When all the numbers were tabulated for 2022, Floor Covering News research found that overall carpet sales grew a scant 0.5%

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 27, 2023

After the feel-good story that was the 2021 statistical year for carpet—when a COVID-19-led rally helped catapult residential sales to double-digit percentage gains— the pendulum swung the other way in 2022. When all the numbers were tabulated for 2022, Floor Covering News research found that overall carpet sales grew a scant 0.5%

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 1, 2023

Evidence of these efforts was abundant at recent industry trade shows such as the 2023 NWFA expo and even earlier this year at TISE in Las Vegas. According to Renee Tester, vice president of sales and marketing, it’s well worth the $16-per-square-foot price consumers will need to fork over to get their hands on it.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Brian Beaulieu of ITR Economics noted that there’s good news on the far horizon at the NAFCD 2023 conference. No one is expecting floor covering distributors to post banner sales numbers for 2023—certainly not in an environment marked by high inflation and a slumping new home construction market. C olorado S pring s , C olo.—No

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Floor Covering News

JULY 11, 2022

Chicago— NeoCon 2022, held here last month, was abuzz with optimism as commercial flooring suppliers touted rebounding sales and specifications across key commercial segments in 2022. We expected to be, in 2023, beating where we were in 2019. Show organizers confirmed attendance at NeoCon 2022 was higher than in 2021, at about 40,000.

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Diary of a Tile Addict

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Overall, the Portuguese ceramics industry, while small, offers a broad and differentiated product portfolio. In 2021, sales to the UK reached Euro 71.7 We strongly believe that our industry’s success lies in our pride in designing and manufacturing to the highest possible quality standards. This grew by 6.4%

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Diary of a Tile Addict

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Overall, the Portuguese ceramics industry, while small, offers a broad and differentiated product portfolio. In 2021, sales to the UK reached Euro 71.7 We strongly believe that our industry’s success lies in our pride in designing and manufacturing to the highest possible quality standards. This grew by 6.4%

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 10, 2024

F ollowing its COVID-19-induced spike in sales, the residential carpet market is down more than 20% from where it was just two years. Despite the cuts, mortgage rates may still be too high to entice existing homeowners to put their property up for sale, analysts said. 10, the lowest level since April 2023.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Projected timeframe for the opening of the Dallas facility is Q2 2023. Customers will also be able to pull real-time sales reports of top-selling Lions Floor products. based laboratories for compliance with industry standards. According to Guo, sales in the first half of 2022 are up 20% over the same period last year.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

With existing home sales and new home construction having cooled significantly, mill executives expect a slow start to 2024 for residential carpet , with sales expected to be down mid-single digits. With inflation and interest rates normalizing, industry executives anticipate a more stable environment in the second half.

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