Floor Covering News

MAY 20, 2021

hardwood flooring market generated approximately $2.207 billion in sales, a 4% decrease from 2019 and a shade below the five-year low of $2.23 While hardwood still represents the third-largest hard surface category behind resilient and ceramic with respect to sales, the gap continues to widen. sales, Mercier Wood Flooring. “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

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Gilmore said exhibitors used that time wisely to schedule more appointments, which led to additional sales. International attendance, meanwhile, which had waned significantly during the pandemic, continued to make a comeback with greater representation from Asia and Europe. 28-30, at Mandalay Bay.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 18, 2024

Russia is a major exporter of natural gas to Europe, and the war has raised concerns about the stability of these supplies. Russia is a major supplier of birch wood to global markets, particularly to countries in Europe and Asia. Statistics reflect this sentiment: U.S. According to data from the U.S.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 3, 2023

For retail sales associates, PFC is intended to be the easiest way to sell flooring—with confidence and simplicity. Europe and Asia/Pacific. A portion of the sales from both cleaners and St. Every step in the selling process is repeatable,” Bhullar said. And if it is repeatable, it is improvable. True Grout.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 26, 2023

With the adoption by Kastamonu, the Unicoat technology will now be used by some of the largest players in the industry in North America, Europe and Asia, according to Unilin. “Unilin and Kastamonu have been close partners for many years,” said Floris Koopmans, sales director at Unilin.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 12, 2021

By Reginald Tucker F rom its inception in Europe in the early 1990s to its highly touted debut in the North American market later that same decade, laminate flooring provided a durable, tough, hard surface flooring option for consumers looking for alternatives to more costly options such as hardwood, tile and stone. Pictured is from Inhaus.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

D ealers can parlay this into a profit at point of sale because SolidTech Plus is the ideal choice for any room, even spaces with water, dampness, humidity and more. Omnify+ made its market debut in 2023 and places more innovation, greater sales results and world-class support at the fingertips of its subscribers.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 10, 2022

The second change is reflected in the Hardwood category, which is now divided into four sections by region of origin: domestic, Canada, Asia and Europe/South America. Finally, there is a “second best overall” competition where retailers write in their top supplier other than Shaw or Mohawk.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 10, 2022

The second change is reflected in the Hardwood category, which is now divided into four sections by region of origin: domestic, Canada, Asia and Europe/South America. Finally, there is a “second best overall” competition where retailers write in their top supplier other than Shaw or Mohawk.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 19, 2024

Now he will attempt to grow the company’s presence at retail with its HFlor brand, a major player globally with sales amassing over half a billion dollars annually. DeCarlo is quite familiar with LX Hausys given this is the company from which he initially sourced at Shaw. I’ve known them since 2011,” he said.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 26, 2023

Ian Burt, director of sales and marketing at Aquafil USA, agreed the show kicked off to a roaring start. We had a lot of overseas visitors, both from Asia and Europe, which was great. Of that, flexible LVT (including glue-down and loose lay) brought in $1.446 billion in sales and 758 million square feet.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 1, 2024

While its origin has expanded beyond China to include other areas of Asia and Europe, imports have reigned supreme for years. The factory continues to undergo improvements,” Richard Quinlan, senior VP sales and marketing, Wellmade, told FCNews. Rigid core flooring like SPC is traditionally an imported product.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 23, 2021

who incorporated the increases into their pricing structure say sales of LVT/SPC/rigid core—for the most part— have not been adversely impacted. and moved production to other Southeast Asia countries, Europe or the U.S. Today, despite the change in administration, those duties remain in place. Flooring retailers.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 18, 2022

“Domestic laminate flooring has certainly enjoyed a surge during the COVID-19 period and resulting global supply chain restraints both from availability and the dramatic transport cost increases we have seen from Asia and Europe,” explained Kevin Brown, executive vice president of sales and marketing. “We

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 6, 2023

Derek Brooks: We buy a lot of product from Europe—probably equal to Asia. Sales have been up in line with that. I would say that unit sales are approaching flat, but dollars are definitely up. Richmond: At Fishman Flooring Solutions 2022 has been a solid year following a great year in 2021. I’m bullish on 2023.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

People were increasingly going back to work, inflation and interest rates were going up, supply chains began to improve and ships coming from Asia and Europe got here faster. Consumer confidence is relatively low, and with inflation putting pressure on discretionary dollars, retail flooring sales could be a challenge.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 29, 2021

Our sales that year were probably between $30 and $40 million.”. Today, Republic sells a little more than 300 SKUs, half of which is SPC at 60% of sales, with laminate about 25%-30% of sales and wood accounting for the remainder. Everything is made in Europe with the Va?linge Business last year increased 50%, he said.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 3, 2023

We don’t use any core material from Europe, so we have not had any issues. The Baltic birch plywood challenge put stress on everyone from an availability, cost and communication point of view,” said Brad Williams, vice president of sales and marketing, Mirage. market—domestic and otherwise—took adequate precautions.

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Kitchens for Living

MAY 22, 2017

Kinks were resolved as the technology continued to advance in Europe and Asia. In fact, Ryan DeGraffenreid, Territory Sales Manager for Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean for Subzero-Wolf, ventures to say that when considering electric vs induction their clients are choosing induction most of the time!

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 6, 2021

Jay has been with Mannington for 29 years, all of them in sales. Michel started his career in finance and accounting, and he has since proven to be a successful leader of sales, product, operations and marketing. Demand creation is being boosted through a significant retailer campaign, now rolling out across North America and Europe.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 6, 2021

Jay has been with Mannington for 29 years, all of them in sales. Michel started his career in finance and accounting, and he has since proven to be a successful leader of sales, product, operations and marketing. Demand creation is being boosted through a significant retailer campaign, now rolling out across North America and Europe.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 21, 2021

Suppliers across the board—including domestic manufacturers, Canadian importers, Brazilian producers and even those who source from Asia—attested to the positive impact the novel coronavirus had on purchases and installations of hardwood flooring in 2020 and beyond. Both of those segments are off.”. We see wide-width demand in 3?4-inch

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 15, 2022

Proponents of the segment cite its proven track record not only in North America but in both residential and light-commercial installations around the world, especially Europe. But while those attributes have helped the category maintain consistent sales volume of $1 billion-plus in the U.S.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 3, 2022

For us it’s not so much the current troubles in Europe as it is the historical COVID-19 hangover,” Moore explained. The products that we get are primarily from Asia, and they use eucalyptus and other local species for the core. We’re trying to find a high-quality option,” said Wade Bondrowski, director of sales, U.S.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 11, 2022

Bella’s leadership has completely changed in the last year and a half, and we’re more focused on taking care of our partners first,” explained Paul Dominie, president of sales and marketing. Everyone knows the complications of importing from either Europe or Asia. Dominie explained. You have time factors that are just there.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 17, 2022

Boen, one of the leading engineered hardwood flooring producers head-quartered in Europe, is bringing its signature long plank/wide-width products to the U.S. We carry all of their lines,” said Tim Hosea, sales manager at Arizona Hardwood Floor Supply, based in Phoenix. market just as the longer/wider trend is taking hold.

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