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. It was, however, a sizeable 23% increase in sales from 2020’s $2.844 billion when the category experienced its first decline since 2009 amid the Great Recession. Category experts agree the U.S. year-to-date.

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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

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

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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Floor Covering News

MAY 18, 2021

In the second quarter of 2020, residential carpet sales plummeted 23% in volume and 27.4% 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%

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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 returned to Coldspring in the role of a drafter and by 2003 was promoted to senior vice president of commercial sales. The post NSI names 2023 award winners appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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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. “A

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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. Ian Burt, director of sales and marketing at Aquafil USA, agreed the show kicked off to a roaring start. We’re very bullish on the forecast for 2024.” I think design follows that.

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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

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

MAY 3, 2023

Many of the new Mirage hardwood flooring offerings for 2023 will be built on a new engineered platform. The Baltic birch plywood challenge put stress on everyone from an availability, cost and communication point of view,” said Brad Williams, vice president of sales and marketing, Mirage. Pictured is Dreamville oak.

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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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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

C hi c ag o —The forecast for the new home construction market looks cloudy while non-residential sales are expected to remain robust in 2023. Residential construction dips Research conducted by ITR Economics shows new home sales are down 18.2% economy at large. ITR Economics, which boasts a 94.7% economy for 2023 and beyond.

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