Floor Covering News

MAY 13, 2024

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. Brian is an entrepreneur in the truest meaning of the word.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 10, 2024

Atlanta— Coverings , the premier international tile and stone exhibition and conference in North America, has unveiled the honorees of the annual Rock Star Awards ahead of Coverings 2024, taking place April 22-25, 2024, at the Georgia World Congress Center here. EDT, in the Outdoor Oasis (Hall C, Booth 7006) at Coverings 2024.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 18, 2024

In flooring, it can be as explosive as developing completely new product formulations that offer consumers features/benefits not previously available—we’re looking at you, WPC. This year’s Floor Covering News “Industry Disrupters” 2024 issue features all manner of players that are—or are poised to—shake things up.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 20, 2024

This year’s fair was held from February 26-March 1, 2024 at Feria Valencia, located in Valencia’s center city. Spain continues to lead production within the European Union, with over $432 million in domestic ceramic tile sales.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Las Vegas—For the second year in a row Mohawk was a multiple winner in the 2024 Best of Surfaces competition, a contest cosponsored by Floor Covering News and Informa Exhibitions, which owns and operates The International Surface Event (TISE). One that stood tall was Nox’s Circular IVP System. It’s in Nox’s DNA to push the envelope.

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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. Rather, it is a product ecosystem consisting of porcelain floor and wall tiles united by a profound aesthetic harmony.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 17, 2024

However, where laminate has had to play “catch-up” in recent years is in the waterproof/water-resistant department—the domain of rigid core products like SPC and WPC. Following is an overview of some of the latest laminate flooring products designed to give rigid core a run for its money.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

However, because the Super Bowl will be taking place in Las Vegas in 2024, Surfaces will be moved up a week—Jan. Hicks said sales for the 2024 show are already encouraging, with many exhibitors interested in booking larger spaces. But now suppliers are infusing the product with waterproof and water-resistant capabilities.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Retailers around the country are scouting out new products, displays and selling systems to kick off the new year. Many view this time as an opportunity to spruce up their showrooms and/or tweak their product offerings to reflect the latest trends in their local markets. So, why should you attend the 2024 Flooring Markets?

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

However, scores of suppliers of competitive waterproof products such as resilient and even some high-performance laminates and hybrids are responding by highlighting select collections that provide retailers with trade-up opportunities and, by extension, higher profit margins. We decided we’re not going to the bottom anymore.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It’s only a matter of time before the flooring industry is released from inflation’s grip and suppli­ers and their retail partners can take full advantage of strong housing fundamentals—including an aging housing stock in need of renovation and pent-up demand for new home sales. Precisely when that occurs is the $64,000 question.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Knowing this, we engineered a completely new yarn system for PETPremier to perform at a higher level than other PETs on the market today.” The mill’s LifeStrand nylon 6 fiber, as demonstrated in products like Integrity (shown), is meticulously engineered for high-performance areas.

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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. James Lesslie COO, Engineered Floor What is your projection for the carpet industry for 2024?

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Las Vegas—Bjelin is looking forward to sharing its new product offerings with the North American market here at The International Surface Event (TISE) from Jan. 24-26, 2024. Visitors to the Bjelin booth will get a hands-on experience of these and other top-quality products.

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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. As we all became more educated on the product category—and the performance of it over time—this decision became clearer than ever.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

FCNews reveals the winners of its third annual FCNnovation Awards—an initiative designed to recognize and showcase some of the most innovative new products and technologies launched in the current year. Inhaus Icon with Classen Ceramin technology Truly sustainable products need to offer recyclability and recycled content.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 16, 2024

Starting April 15, 2024, XL Brands, a Bostik brand and leading provider of professional flooring adhesive solutions, will be available for purchase through BPI. When the on-boarding of BPI is complete, XL Brands products will no longer be available at Professional Flooring Supply (PFS). “It Wauwatosa, Wis.—Starting

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 21, 2024

Las Vegas—Mapei Corporation’s mortar/ink, Planitop 3D, has been awarded the Expert’s Choice award for Disruptive Innovation in Concrete Construction Materials at the 2024 Innovative Product Awards, which was held in conjunction with the World of Concrete trade show. “We

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 23, 2024

With that in mind, FCNews reached out to numerous top executives in the industry to glean some insight into strategies for success in 2024. Plan to hire more people in 2024 Despite the tight labor market, 2024 could be an optimal time to hire new talent for your team. manufacturing. economy and jobs.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

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. If you’re on the non-residential side of the street, you’re going to be doing very well in 2024 but you’re going to see some pain in 2025.”

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 19, 2024

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. The hard surface component will begin shipping to retailers in the late May/early June 2024 time frame.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 16, 2024

As we started thinking about our 2024 roadmap, we got back to the basics with a practical and direct approach to planning—we spoke with our customers,” explained Todd Saunders, CEO. “We For example, the platform now offers AI-powered e-mail marketing, an advanced SEO service, product pricing and a massive upgrade to its visualization kiosk.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 1, 2024

Engineered Floors started 100% production of its new rigid core offering, PureGrain DLVT, at its Seretean Plant in Dalton in 2023. Rigid core flooring like SPC is traditionally an imported product. commenced official production in the fourth quarter of 2020. In fact, most of the U.S.

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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

AUGUST 9, 2023

Hash brings a wealth of experience to Southwind, having managed sales at Armstrong in the early 2000s as well as sitting atop Shaw’s hard surface category management for 15 years. Southwind has long needed to refresh its product offering in both hard and soft surface. And we’ll do the same in new products as well.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 22, 2022

Billed as a new merchandising system that brings a streamlined and simplified approach to the consumer shopping journey, Retail 2.0 It will begin shipping in March 2023 to members who buy into the program and finish in Q1 2024. Indeed, features of the program include fewer SKUs, albeit better selling products yielding higher margins.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 10, 2022

speaks to a simpler shopping experience for consumers with a less cluttered showroom offering fewer products and integrating the online/in-store experience. as a pilot said there was initial blowback from the retail sales team but that everyone ultimately came around to embrace it. We have no intention of going back to the old system.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 3, 2023

Perfect Home is a curated collection of select products from multiple mills with a focus on colors, visuals, warranties and performance attributes. The system will initially be offered for carpet this fall. The hard surface system is scheduled for 2024. in October for the 50 members taking on the new selling system.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 25, 2024

An effective leader operates as a servant, focusing on coaching team members toward success and creating an environment that fosters productivity. It is amazing the response in productivity and dedication you achieve when you show those leading others in your organization how much you value the leadership they offer and provide to others.

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