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

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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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

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

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

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

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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Floor Covering News

MARCH 1, 2023

Whether it’s top-selling visuals/species, new engineered formats or even enhancements to the product’s performance, there are hardwood trends and developments RSAs need to keep in mind when helping the consumer make an educated decision. Here’s a look at some of the primary hardwood trends driving continued interest today.

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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

MAY 13, 2024

Deb’s initiative and commitment to excellence continues to set new standards. This was the start of a 35-year passion for sales and marketing. While Brian has a deep understanding of how sales and marketing fuel a business, he also understands that culture and people are the things that feed long-term growth.

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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

MARCH 21, 2024

Commercial flooring contractors like Joel Bonstell, sales and marketing manager for River City Flooring, Hudsonville, Mich., ” More importantly, according to Gordon, the group is trending younger and becoming much more diverse as it expands its footprint. billion in sales, are numerous. So, that segment is still good.”

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Diary of a Tile Addict

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In the circular nature of trends, Portugal’s small format, decorative, and colourful wall tiles – a national speciality – are currently bang on trend. In 2021, sales to the UK reached Euro 71.7 Photo credit: Portugal Ceramics: Vasco Duarte: Location: Viuva Lamego. This grew by 6.4% million in 2022.

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Diary of a Tile Addict

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In the circular nature of trends, Portugal’s small format, decorative, and colourful wall tiles – a national speciality – are currently bang on trend. In 2021, sales to the UK reached Euro 71.7 Photo credit: Portugal Ceramics: Vasco Duarte: Location: Viuva Lamego. This grew by 6.4% million in 2022.

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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. Product trends.

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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. The Flair collection gets Patina, a new color in keeping with today’s design trends.

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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

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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