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Rick Cain elevated to president of Fabulous Floors

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Carrollton, Texas—Fabulous Floors has named Rick Cain—formerly vice president of sales—to president of the company. In his previous role, Cain led Fabulous Floors’ expansion efforts in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Florida, Massachusetts, Georgia, New York, Virginia, California and Oregon.

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Happy Feet welcomes three new hires

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Scott Jones, John Thompson and Andy Friedlander are the company’s new territory sales managers for south and east Texas and eastern North Carolina. Every new employee we bring on is incredibly knowledgeable and passionate about flooring, and we are really excited to have them on board with us.”. John Thompson.

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Full speed ahead for Johnson following distribution shuffle

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The new year marks a new beginning for Johnson Hardwood Floors. Clint Haselhorst, vice president of sales and marketing, R.A. Many times consumers want to upgrade their floors but aren’t ready to change out traditional stained cabinets that feature warmer tones and need something to compliment that look,” he explained.

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

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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. Changing the rules.

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Bostik’s XL Brands partners with BPI

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—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

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

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Specialty flooring retailers are the drivers of this industry. 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. Flooring 101. What Lions Floor had to say.

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Flooring dealers post strong first half despite challenges

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The flooring industry must have missed the memo about how 40-year-high inflation, supply chain disruptions and labor shortages are supposed to hurt business. Quite the contrary here as flooring dealers turned in an impressive first half despite stiff headwinds. Despite all that, sales have been strong.”. Was it easy? Absolutely.