Floor Covering News

JANUARY 10, 2024

Following are my resolutions for retail professionals in 2024—independent of TDG. Being an election year (in so many countries), 2024 has three productive quarters. social media, internet research, etc.) Feel free to share these resolutions with others (flooring or other retail pros) to make a difference in their lives.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

—The Polyurethane Foam Association (PFA), a trade association founded in 1980 to help educate foam users, allied industries and other stakeholders , has named its officers and executive committee for 2024. He supervises all research and development projects, reporting to the company’s chief executive officer.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 30, 2024

Hardwood flooring’s loss of market share to competing hard surfaces over the past 10-15 years is well catalogued and documented. The hardwood flooring sector continues to face stiff competition from look-alike product segments. As such, NWFA will co-host the Flooring Sustainability Summit scheduled for July 17-18 in Washington, D.C.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 19, 2024

Alliance Flooring co-CEOs, Ryan Dunn and Kevin Logue. O r l and o —The early returns on the Alliance Flooring new Perfect Home retail merchandising system and technology platform point to a clear-cut winner that will ultimately yield higher margins for dealers and more satisfied customers.

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Stone Update

AUGUST 1, 2016

Research study cites new flooring systems, automated concrete-tile making, other developments for gains.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Nominations for the 2024 Women in Stone Pioneer Award are being accepted until May 20. Rea has also been instrumental in the advances made for the checkoff initiative to establish a federally approved Research and Promotional Board to generate industry funding. To learn more, visit www.naturalstoneinstitute.org/pioneeraward.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

As we conclude the first month of 2024, marked by extensive travel to various conventions and meetings within the flooring industry, it serves as a gentle reminder that our journey ahead is substantial. Engaging directly with stakeholders, our team acknowledges the pressing need for concerted efforts within the flooring industry.

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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. As the click system ensures perfect alignment of the tiles, installation of a FlinTile floor does not require any specific tools or the use of spacers.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 26, 2023

Numerous exhibition spaces and private showrooms touted new flooring lines based around collaboration from both a design and narrative perspective. We’re very bullish on the forecast for 2024.” Floor Covering News research shows commercial resilient flooring alone accounted for $2.231 billion of the overall $7.34

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Floor Covering News

MAY 2, 2024

FCA Network members are coming off an outstanding 2023 and are poised to do well in 2024 when all is said and done. “It Newcomers speak out Newcomers to FCA Network include BK Flooring & Design, Lebanon, Ind., Branden Kappes) and Carpet & Flooring Warehouse, Hoover, Ala., It was a very profitable year,” Robertson said.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 14, 2023

Environmental consciousness factors heavily into the products selected for commercial flooring applications. Coming off a year where many companies reopened or resumed normal business hours, the commercial flooring industry is poised to capitalize on this momentum. Pictured is Mohawk Group’s Fractal Fluency. A s the U.S.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 18, 2021

in dollars, according to FCNews research. When all the numbers were crunched for 2020, FCNews research shows overall carpet sales fell 12.5% Despite this crash, carpet still remains the largest flooring segment, accounting for 48.4% of the overall 18.969 billion square-foot flooring market in 2020. billion in 2019.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 5, 2024

—Trex Company, a manufacturer of wood-alternative composite decking and railing and a leader in high-performance, low-maintenance outdoor living products, has been included in Barron’s list of the 100 Most Sustainable Companies for 2024. In its debut appearance, Trex came in at No.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 29, 2023

F or the second year running tile flooring experienced sales growth after its 2020 decline, which had been the category’s first decrease in several years. Tile flooring was up mid-double digits in dollars in 2022 compared to 2021’s high single-digit increase. Volume experienced a slight decrease overall. billion square feet.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 4, 2024

In the past, consumers often had to make a tough choice when it came to selecting a genuine product that resembled wood —both in terms of heft and visual appearance—versus a pretty darn good look-alike with the in-demand attributes of a waterproof/water-resistant resilient floor. all wood-based materials from top to bottom.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

From 2022 through 2024, this total represents a need for an additional 2.2 The report, based on research of NAHB’s Economics Group, provides an overview of the state of the nation’s construction labor market. The post Labor shortage weakening housing supply appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Las Vegas—Members and select vendors of the Floors & More group gathered here a day prior to the start of TISE 2024 for its annual convention. We are not going to slow down at all; we are going to put the pedal to the metal in 2024,” Vinnie Virga Jr., vice president of Floors & More, told attendees. explained. “I

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Some investors seem to think so as they have poured $11 billion into autonomous truck startups in the past two and a half years, including over $5 billion in the first five months of 2021, according to the data and research company PitchBook. By 2024, the company said it hopes to put that data to work when it pulls the human from the car.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

From 2022 through 2024, this total represents a need for an additional 2.2 The report, based on research of NAHB’s Economics Group, provides an overview of the state of the nation’s construction labor market. The post Labor shortage weakening housing supply appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 4, 2024

Those were just of the main findings of a wide-ranging keynote presentation delivered by Lauren Saidel-Baker, economist with ITR Economics, in her address to commercial flooring contractors in attendance at the recent Fuse Alliance conference here earlier this month. Following are excerpts of her presentation.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

These competing and seemingly divergent scenarios are indicative of the complex nature of economic forecasting in a time of unprecedented challenges and change for not only the flooring industry but the U.S. Residential construction dips Research conducted by ITR Economics shows new home sales are down 18.2% economy at large.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 21, 2023

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. “A In fact, FCNews ’ Statistical issue showed just how important price increases were to the flooring industry in 2022. In terms of volume, the category saw just a 4.7%

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

ceramic market will be down mid-single digits in sales and high single digitals in volume when the calendar flips to 2024. The ceramic flooring category is disproportionately impacted by this crisis when compared to others due to its need for highly skilled—not just skilled—labor. Category experts agree the U.S.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 3, 2023

Many of the new Mirage hardwood flooring offerings for 2023 will be built on a new engineered platform. Triangulo Hardwood Floors uses Brazilian pine that we sustainably manage on our own property in Brazil,” said Philip Key, the company’s vice president of sales and marketing. Pictured is Dreamville oak.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

T en years ago Scott Humphrey became president and CEO of the World Floor Covering Association (WFCA), the result of a year-long search following the passing of Chris Davis. Floor Covering News publisher Steven Feldman recently sat down with Humphrey to discuss the current state of affairs. What is WFCA up to today? 3) Tax deductions.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

That was the primary message that Connor Lokar, senior forecaster with ITR Economics, delivered to attendees at the North American Association of Floor Covering Distributors/North American Building Material Distribution Association (NAFCD+NBMDA) convention here earlier this month. economy overall. You are going to have to go get it!”.

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