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Industry disrupters 2024: Internal factors, external forces upend status quo

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PureGrain is said to offer greater color clarity (5x more compared to traditional film products, the company said), embossed texture dimension, enhanced abrasion properties and is designed with 35 unique planks. retail sales often experience a noticeable dip during election years, as consumers curtail discretionary spending.

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Retailers of the Year 2022: Flooring 101 & Meek’s

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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. One of the new connections made at the event was with Mike Lockman, flooring sales manager at Meeks Midwest, a Division of USLBM.