Floor Covering News

JUNE 13, 2022

Hosted by Schönox, Küberit USA, Trissl Sports Cars and TMT America, the week-long Schönox Hands ÖN event’s pace was set from the beginning with guests picked up at the airport in a series of Porsche Macans and Cayennes. Schönox Hands ÖN training followed, introducing attendees to Need for Speed products and strategies.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 25, 2020

Travis Bass, EVP of sales, Swiss Krono USA. Barron Frith, CFL North America president. Frank Hargadon, Regional sales manager, Beauflor. Andrew Bennett, commercial sales manager, Tarkett. The post How to revive carpet, laminate, sheet vinyl sales appeared first on Floor Covering News. Ease of installation.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 29, 2022

Coverings, the premier international tile and stone exhibition and conference in North America , released the winners of the annual Rock Star Award in advance of Coverings 2022, which will take place April 5-8 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Natiely Canedo, Florida sales manager, StoneHardscapes, Ft. Arlington, Va.— Manufacturer.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 5, 2022

Preliminary FCNews research shows the commercial flooring market totaled $6.488 billion in sales in 2021, an uptick of 6% over 2020. In commercial, hard surfaces surpassed carpet for the second straight year with hard surface sales reaching $3.5 of hard surface commercial sales and is the fastest growing category.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 16, 2022

H amstrung by record inflation , supply chain woes and a lingering pandemic, flooring retailers somehow managed to achieve record sales in 2021 and followed that up with a robust five months to start 2022. In challenging times, the good ones have the systems and procedures in place to keep winning or seek out their own retail sales advice.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Consumer financing is probably the most underutilized sales tool by most flooring retailers,” said Keith Spano, president of Flooring America/Flooring Canada. “On On average, consumer financing is used on 5% of sales by most flooring retailers. This is an incredible sales tool for the RSA. The best average 35%.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

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. This will only continue our growth strategy into the future. Bob Wagner’s Flooring America. Tequesta, Fla.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Coverings , the preeminent event for the ceramic tile and natural stone industry in North America, has released a lineup of featured conference sessions for Coverings 2022. Laws of Luxury: How to Increase Your Sales by Leveraging the Luxury Business Model. Arlington, Va.—

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Floor Covering News

MAY 2, 2023

For those who can tackle the category at the retail level, benefits abound—higher profit margins and ticket sales as well as forging a reputation for style and design, to name a few. The dealer who actively sells ceramic tile is invariably making a higher ticket sale, which will add to overall revenue growth and profitability for the dealer.”

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 26, 2022

Las Vegas—Coverings, the largest international tile and stone exhibition and conference in North America, has announced a comprehensive roster of both popular and new programs for Coverings 2022 —which will take place April 5-8, 2022, at the Las Vegas Convention Center here. Three educational stages.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 10, 2023

For Bruce Odette, president of Carpet Exchange, which operates 17 retail stores in the Denver market, UFLPA has negatively impacted sales in the LVP category. That strategy of increasing inventory positions has worked for other dealers as well. A case in point is Dillabaugh’s Flooring America, Boise, Idaho. “We

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 14, 2022

Best Overall in the Award of Excellence 2022 measured suppliers in 10 categories—product innovation, design, service, ease of doing business, professionalism of sales force, training/education, handling of claims, digital tools, on-time delivery and credit terms. Engineered Floors, meanwhile, was victorious in Group A for carpet.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 29, 2022

“AHF Products has continued to invest in our domestic operations since our inception three years ago,” said Chris King, senior vice president, sales and marketing, AHF Products. “We We manufacture in eight plants throughout America, and manufacture around 70% of our total volume in the U.S. Overseas production shifting to America.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 25, 2021

FCNews research shows commercial flooring revenues (including specified business as well as Main Street sales) totaled $6.134 billion last year—a falloff of 11.1% The corporate market took the biggest hit in 2020 as its share fell from 42% of sales in 2019 to approximately 38% last year. compared to 2019. Hard surface surge continues.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Atlanta—Coverings, the preeminent event for the ceramic tile and natural stone industry in North America, has revealed a select lineup of featured educational opportunities for Coverings 2024 , which will take place April 22-25, 2024, here at the Georgia World Congress Center (GWCC).

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Floor Covering News

MAY 15, 2023

FCNews rounded up scores of retailers from around the country to get their advice and strategies on a host of topics—customer service, merchandising, marketing and promotion and hiring, training and recruiting. What can I do to help you narrow down your selections?’” —TRAVIS CARLSON, Carlson’s Flooring America, Fort Myers, Fla.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 8, 2020

FCNews will launch its “Retail Recovery Across America” video series on June 15. Floor covering retail is bouncing back from the early spring slowdown caused by COVID-19, and FCNews will be on the front lines to report on it with the official launch of FCNews ’ “Retail Recovery Across America” video series.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 1, 2023

—To stay competitive in the dynamic flooring industry, Kährs said it will put more emphasis on direct sales and the strategic partnership of distributors with inventory promoting the Kährs brand. Dillon started his career at Mohawk Industries and assembled Provenza Floors’ first sales team. team,” Magnusson said. team spirit.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 18, 2022

“The attendees and the exhibitors —and the world in general—are getting back to business, and face-to-face is really important in that engagement,” Jennifer Hoff, president of Taffy Event Strategies, the event planning company for Coverings, told FCNews. “I We certainly hope this leads to more tile factories in North America.”.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

AUGUST 27, 2013

Florida Tile has announced two significant changes to its sales and marketing organization due to recent growth in it independent and commercial divisions. Massimo Barbari, previously Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Florida Tile, has been promoted to Product Development of Foreign Panariagroup Brands.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 12, 2021

Some of the roles include accounting, logistics, product development, marketing, HR, sales and operations. Today, Amber Leigh is one of the key drivers behind the marketing for each of our brands from strategy to execution. director of sales, O’Krent Floors. He was promoted to CEO in February 2020. Andy Hogan, CEO, FEI Group.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 3, 2022

By Megan Salzano-Birch—After a strong showing in 2021, Coverings 2022, the largest international tile and stone exhibition and conference in North America, will again be hosted as an in-person trade show event —this time in Las Vegas. Coverings 2022 marks the second time the event will be held live since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 1, 2020

Laticrete has named Joseph Rizzo associate director of sales, concrete remediation. In this role, Rizzo will lead the Laticrete sales team in the creation and execution of strategy for all aspects of concrete remediation sales, which includes the NXT, SUPERCAP and Specialty Mortar product brands. Joseph Rizzo.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 6, 2021

She was—and continues to be—on the frontline of customer engagements, leveraging flooring industry knowledge with her sales skills. She has created and implemented training programs for independent flooring retailers, distributors, manufacturers and sales reps for the past 50 years, developing programs to help grow their businesses.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

T he intense level of competition in the waterproof flooring segment —particularly the LVP/SPC/rigid core category—has resulted in aggressive pricing strategies to build market share. This intense competition, while giving retailers and end users more choices, has negatively impacted profit margin opportunities for specialty retailers.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 17, 2023

During that time, I have acquired extensive experience and knowledge of the sector, both internationally and in North America. Before joining Panariagroup USA, I held various executive roles in the industry, including sales and marketing, product development and operations.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Laticrete’s Rob Smith, regional director; and Peter McKeon, regional sales manager. Our biggest asset is our people, and Adrian, Daniel, Peter and Jay have all earned this award for their hard work and dedication,” said Edward Metcalf, president and COO, Laticrete North America. Bethany, Conn.—Laticrete

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 15, 2023

—Longtime flooring executive Steve Sieracki has been named senior vice president for Flooring America, Flooring Canada, International Design Guild and The Floor Trader divisions of CCA Global. Most recently, Sieracki was vice president of residential sales for Shaw Industries.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 15, 2021

We adapted, went digital and we were able to share information and strategies to survive and, in many cases, thrive. That sentiment was shared by Chris Thompson, regional sales manager with Quebec-based Boa-Franc, maker of the Mirage brand. The traffic has just been incredible,” said Jodie Doyle, vice president of sales and marketing.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 9, 2023

We were co-chairmen of the Billion Dollar Sale, which raised the level of sales in the entire industry. The strategy and planning was both of us on almost everything. It came out of when we did the Billion Dollar Sale. We realized we wanted a presence in every city in North America, and we wanted it for two reasons: No.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 20, 2020

Sales growth persists despite stumbling blocks. FCNews research put the category at $5.433 billion in sales in 2019, an industry-leading 10.5% We started the year with a very strong first quarter, carrying over the positive momentum we had built in 2019,” said Noah Fulton, vice president of business strategy, Karndean Designflooring.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

sales and marketing. Once Indusparquet and BR-111 parted ways, Indusparquet embarked on establishing its own brand in North America. sales efforts for Indusparquet from the beginning. Wholesale strategy. They needed somebody to push back on the sales side to say, ‘This is how it works in the U.S.,

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Building Moxie

OCTOBER 15, 2018

James Hardie products now appear on over 8 million homes in North America. *. At the top most levels, pros earn a badge, for exclusive use in advertising and sales materials. A product doesn’t end up on 8 million in North America by chance. Topics covered include installation, job-site safety, and in-home sales strategies.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 21, 2022

It’s this disruptive strategy that has helped put Cali on the 2022 Industry Disruptors list. This strategy has worked for the brand given that it has grown substantially over the last few years—including its recent acquisition by global flooring company Victoria PLC—and continues to expand its specialty retail network.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 11, 2022

A hearing on the sale is set for Tuesday, July 12. As outlined by Armstrong Flooring, AHF Products and Gordon Brothers would acquire substantially all of the assets of Armstrong North America. That is, and will continue to be, our strategy moving forward.”. Armstrong originally filed for bankruptcy protection in May, 2022. .

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 7, 2020

These established speakers will provide attendees with a solid understanding of the latest leadership, economic, sales and distribution management trends, the groups said. He will present on America’s business and demographic advantages in a post-COVID-19 era.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 14, 2023

During our coaching sessions, I focused on transforming his mindset and helping him implement strategies for commanding higher prices. He recently closed a $12,000 sale at an impressive 48% margin. These dealers from across North America have proven it’s possible to thrive economically—even in close proximity to giants like Home Depot.

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