Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

L as V egas —With every major flooring manufacturer represented, and with international attendees returning at their highest level in years, Surfaces ’24 very much hit the mark as the industry’s most important flooring event. “A Flooring dealers agreed Surfaces 2024 stood out in a number of ways. “I People were happy.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Of course, there are many issues of specific concern to the flooring industry. To that end, Floor Covering News asked several prominent retailers to identify the issues that are important to them and how they would like Congress to address it. Lauren Voit , Great Western Flooring Immigration and the open border are of major concern.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 29, 2024

“Overlooking the Rockies and offering unparalleled opportunities for even greater retail success, Edge Summit 2025 promises to be exceptional,” said Kelli Widdifield, Mohawk’s senior vice president of marketing. The post Registration for Mohawk Edge Summit 2024 opens soon appeared first on Floor Covering News. Learn more here.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Distributors have played a critical role in the flooring ecosystem. Historically speaking, distributors have played a critical role in the flooring ecosystem. FCNews asked distribution executives for their views: On distribution circa 2025… Bob Weiss, CEO, All Tile. Eric Parrish, president, Midwest Floors.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 10, 2020

Mosaic floors and backsplashes are hugely popular today. Natural stone can etch and stain, so stick to using the material in unique ways vs. whole house floor installations. Nothing will make an installation look more dated in 2025 than using man-made, imitative materials created in 2019 and installed in 2021.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 8, 2024

Waregem, Belgium—Unilin Technologies has introduced a PFAS-free formulation for waterproof coatings, aligning with forthcoming bans on harmful chemicals such as PFAS (fluorine) in products in the EU and US market, starting in 2025. The post Unilin Technologies launches PFAS-free coating solution appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 25, 2022

Milliken & Company published its fourth annual sustainability report, a key reporting component in the company’s progress toward its 2025 sustainability goals. management team by 8% and announced that its entire flooring portfolio is now carbon neutral. . Spartanburg, S.C.—Milliken

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 24, 2023

Floor Covering News is here for the start of the FCA Network 2023 annual convention, the 25th edition of the event. Andrea O’Connell, owner of Graham’s Flooring & Design, Loveland, Colo., The post FCA Network 2023 annual convention kicks off appeared first on Floor Covering News. Scottsdale, Ariz.—

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APRIL 16, 2024

Tuesday, June 11, 2024 CEU: Trends impacting 2025 and beyond 10:00 a.m. Speaker: Mark Bryan, senior foresight manager, Future Today Institute Trends impacting 2025 and beyond delves deep into the trends poised to reshape the built environment landscape with business and design-level insights. To register, head here.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Armstrong Flooring released the company’s first third-party assured, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)-compliant sustainability report. The post Armstrong releases third-party assured sustainability report appeared first on Floor Covering News. Lancaster, Pa.—Armstrong Full report here.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 18, 2024

Dalton—It has been 12 years since Piet Dossche turned the flooring industry upside down when he launched WPC in the United States and soon after its SPC iteration, all under the “waterproof” umbrella. International Flooring Co. But equally important, how the brand will be different than everything they saw on the show floor. “It

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 23, 2024

Since many of them will already be employed by 2025 and 2026, your company’s best chance to find new employees or poach from a competitor will be in 2024. We know that shopping for floor covering is often a terrible user experience, and most retailers don’t have much ability to change that. economy and jobs.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 2, 2023

Through future-forward programming and with hundreds of exhibitors, the NeoCon show floors will offer an immersive display of what designers and specifiers should consider when creating a better built environment—from generational design, ESG prioritization, to technology integration and global perspectives.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 30, 2023

The commercial flooring sector is going to see growth through the middle of 2024. On the back side of 2024, the rate of growth is going to slow for commercial, and then it’ll be a mild recession during the first half of 2025. The post ITR Economics’ outlook on the commercial market appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Carpet One Floor & Home, Flooring America, Flooring Canada, The Floor Trader and International Design Guild members will take part in an exciting lineup of events, including a keynote from real estate magnate and ABC’s “Shark Tank” Barbara Corcoran. appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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MARCH 27, 2024

Award recipients will be celebrated at the annual Natural Stone Institute Awards Ceremony at StonExpo in Las Vegas in 2025. The post Natural Stone Institute Awards Program calls for entries appeared first on Floor Covering News. All awards are open to Natural Stone Institute members.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 29, 2024

—It has been billed as “the Surfaces of the Northeast,” and for many retailers located in New England, upstate New York and parts of Pennsylvania, NRF Distributors’ New England Flooring Market (NEFM) is indeed their signature flooring event of the season. echoing a refrain shared by many of his fellow retailers.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 14, 2022

With inflation comes some fear consumers will have less disposable income for purchases like flooring. Not until late 2025 and into 2026.” As demand settles to a more sustainable level, there will still be plenty of need for flooring. The cost to fill up a large SUV these days is greater than some countries’ GDP.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 20, 2023

The flooring industry has its share of disrupters seeking to change the rules of competition simply by doing things differently. Floor Covering News’ Industry Disrupters 2023 issue features players large and small who are intent on shaking thing up. Think Amazon, Facebook and Uber.) ChatGPT Smith.ai

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Floor Covering News

JULY 6, 2022

There’s a bear market coming—probably around 2025—but there’ll be corrections to be made in between.”. In 2025, the economy is going to slow down. The post Economics: ITR forecast signals return to ‘normalized’ growth appeared first on Floor Covering News. And when you look at the price-to-earnings ratio, it’s very high.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 11, 2022

is predicted to grow nearly $80 billion by 2025. The post 10 social media trends for 2022 appeared first on Floor Covering News. And it’s revolutionizing the way we shop: 60% of gen zers in the U.S. use Instagram to discover new brands and products. Social commerce in the U.S.

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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. It truly is the flooring of the future.”

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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 5, 2024

“We need to keep in mind, when you’re watching this data, that housing is telling us about what’s going to be happening more like late ’24 or 2025.” The post Economics: Silver lining in latest housing numbers appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 20, 2023

M ore evidence that things are not as bad out there as others might have you believe: The Abbey/ Floors to Go convention in Nashville last week drew near record attendance. The good news for the flooring industry, being tied into housing and residential remodel, is we are usually first in and first out. ITR is projecting a 0.3%

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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. I expect cooling for the rest of this year and a mild pullback in 2025.”

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 16, 2024

We are forecasting more rapid growth in 2025 with still lower mortgage rates and a persistent housing shortfall.” The housing market, a major driver of residential flooring sales, appears to have passed peak mortgage rates. The projected housing market upswing is welcome news to the flooring industry.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

That was the main thrust of a pair of informative economic keynote presentations delivered by ITR Economics last fall during the North American Association of Floor Covering Distributors+ North American Building Materials Distribution Association (NAFCD+NBMDA) conference. Outlook on U.S. Lowering interest rates will help.

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