Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Los Angeles—Emser Tile announced its complete suite of products with a new 2022/2023 tile product catalog , available both in print and online. It’s truly inspiring to see so many facets of our business align with the launch of this year’s product catalog,” said Mara Villanueva-Heras, vice president of marketing.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Los Angeles—Emser Tile has released its 2023/2024 catalog , available both in print and online. Trend analysis, worldwide procurement, sales expertise and leadership has led to this comprehensive catalog that delineates Emser’s array of offerings.”

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MARCH 18, 2024

The award recognises Italian companies’ international sales achievements and their ability to enhance the global standing of Italian industry based on official statistics from the Italian Customs and Monopolies A gency. The Export Capital Award caps a 2023 full of prestigious recognitions for Atlas Concorde.

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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

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. Mohawk SolidTech Plus Mohawk expanded the waterproof capabilities of SolidTech Plus by adding WetProtect technology to the product tier in 2023.

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JUNE 1, 2023

In 2023, EnergieKer has obtained UNI EN ISO 14001: 2015 certification demonstrating its commitment to minimise the environmental impact of its production processes. EnergieKer’s investments are focused on protecting all environmental resources on every production line and to ensuring compliance with the highest green economy standards.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I think the vibe is very good,” said Patrick Warren, vice president, residential sales, dealer & showrooms, Daltile. If you feel 3D printing, it’s almost like an embossed in register,” said Manny Llerena, director, sales and marketing. Everybody seems optimistic that it’s not going to be a terrible year.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Carpet Exchange, a flooring store with 17 locations across Colorado and Wyoming, has been named the 2023 Edge Retailer of the Year by Mohawk. According to the company, Carpet Exchange’s level of commitment to improving year over year is exemplified by its increase in business across hard surface and Karastan sales. Calhoun, Ga.—Carpet

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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. billion-plus commercial flooring market, with specified contract representing the lion’s share of sales, preliminary FCNews research shows.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 5, 2022

Preliminary FCNews research shows the commercial flooring market totaled $6.488 billion in sales in 2021, an uptick of 6% over 2020. In commercial, hard surfaces surpassed carpet for the second straight year with hard surface sales reaching $3.5 of hard surface commercial sales and is the fastest growing category.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 17, 2023

square foot on all standard Mercier wood floors—with the exception of the Pro Collection. Consumers can claim their rebate online, by email or by mail by July 21, 2023 The promotion is for participating Le Plus dealers in the USA. The post Mercier extends spring sales promotion appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 3, 2023

For retail sales associates, PFC is intended to be the easiest way to sell flooring—with confidence and simplicity. luxury indoor outdoor nylon) yarn system was launched in 2023 under the mill’s Rosecore brand. With the release of Signature Technology, Mohawk has reset the standard for the texture and realism of wood décors.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 23, 2023

Case in point is Triangulo Hardwood Floors, which employs nine layers of transparent, UV-cured polyurethane that sports a 10% gloss level to enhance the natural beauty of the Brazilian hardwood species, according Philip Key, vice president of sales and marketing. Most recently, the company took home honors in both design and service for 2023.

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Ceramics of Italy

APRIL 19, 2024

The Geberit Group, which celebrates 150 years of quality, innovation and cooperation this year, concluded 2023 with robust operating margins. decrease in net sales to CHF 3,084 million (corresponding to a 4.8% decrease in net sales to CHF 3,084 million (corresponding to a 4.8% decline in local currencies).

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 4, 2023

Dalton— Certified Flooring Installers (CFI) , which celebrates its 30 th year in business this year, is kicking off its Carpet Installation Technical Certification Program for sales professionals at The International Surface Event (TISE) on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023 and Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023 at 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

In late 2023, Renew Lab Partners, an investment firm headquartered in Sandy Springs, Ga., We’ve never really had a sales force that goes out and visits clients,” he explained. There are many things that aren’t covered in standardized ASTM tests. The acquisition, he noted, will broaden that exposure measurably.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

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 We measure our sales every day, because this is a selling event for us.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 8, 2023

square foot on all standard Mercier wood floors*. The Mercier spring promotion runs from March 10 to April 22, 2023, at participating Le Plus dealers in the USA. Consumers can claim their rebate online, by email or by mail, until July 21, 2023. For a limited time, consumers get a rebate of $0.50/square

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In choosing their top retailer partners, suppliers looked beyond sales volume to other key attributes such as communication skills, trust, company culture and even benevolence as differentiating factors. 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

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

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

APRIL 29, 2022

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. “We We have incremental capacity coming online in both 2022 and 2023 to meet increasing market demand,” said David Moore, senior product director, wood and laminate.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Waregem, Belgium—Unilin Technologies will exhibit at Domotex 2023 in hall 23 booth A48 and The International Surfaces Event in Las Vegas in Jan. 2023 at booth 6414. We are excited to exhibit at Domotex again, and after last year’s success at TISE we are looking forward to returning to Las Vegas with our innovations and partners.”. “We

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 9, 2023

Tom Cartmell, branch sales manager, Diverzify. Kevin Keefe, national technical sales manager, QEP Roberts. Brett Miller, vice president of standards, National Wood Flooring Association. As a 501c3 association, Unite itself will do no training,” Varden acknowledged. Ken Kennedy, director of technical services, The Dixie Group.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 4, 2022

First or second quarter 2023. Last year EF had a record year in terms of sales. If you’re Shaw Industries, spending a billion dollars when you were nylon to put it into polyester and then your sales are going to go down after you do that—well, that’s a hard sell to Warren Buffet. You wanted your standard of living.

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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

Unicoat protects the floor from spills beyond the standard requirements set by the generally accepted norms. ” Kastamonu is set to launch products incorporating the technology by February 2023 and said it is planning to make the new products available both for export and the Turkish domestic market.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

on all standard Mercier wood floors*. The Mercier fall promotion runs from September 22 to November 18, 2023 at participating Le Plus dealers in the USA. Montmagny, Quebec―Mercier Wood Flooring, a pioneer in the manufacturing of prefinished wood floors, recently launched its fall promotion.

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

California is a horrible place to do business,” said Dave White, vice president of sales and marketing for Tri-West Ltd., CARB emissions standards. Not surprisingly, flooring professionals in the Golden State are frustrated. a top 5 wholesaler based in Santa Fe Springs, Calif. “We

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 5, 2023

Luckily, our operations people intervened because they recognized some of our standards were not met. We did follow much of our standard policies, but it didn’t matter in the end as it was not enough to protect us.” We did follow much of our standard policies, but it didn’t matter in the end as it was not enough to protect us.” (For

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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. You have all your standard flooring, then you have polished concrete, which is still a significant business, and that’s good.” First and foremost is the camaraderie. “I

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

“True hardwood floors can be easily differentiated from wood-look products by the variation in wood patterns from one plank to another,” said Brad Williams, vice president of sales and marketing, Mirage. director of sales. at Surfaces 2023, took the wraps off a new collection called Tierra, a European white oak product.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

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. How do you see the economy impacting the industry in 2023? What other challenges must the category face in 2023? Steve Sieracki. Thomas Baert.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

According to a survey of 2,400 professionals conducted by the Robert Half consulting firm, 46% of professionals are either looking for a new job or plan to look for one in the first half of 2023. It’s unclear how long this tight labor market is going to persist. Let’s look at effective strategies you can deploy right now.

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