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25 tips from top executives

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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. Alan Beaulieu, president, ITR Economics B uild your product knowledge There are so many products and specifications today. Promote a brand, not just a product.

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Exclusive: Boen and Somerset—A dynamic duo

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A few months ago Bauwerk Group, a Switzerland-based manufacturer of hardwood flooring that also owns the Boen brand, purchased the prefinished side of Somerset Hardwood Flooring , the company founded by Steve Merrick in 1990 as a supplier of unfinished goods. I’m looking on the floor. We don’t have any more production capacity.

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Economics: Headwinds will moderate growth in 2024 

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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. We had those wide lapels and pastel colors, but at least we survived.

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