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STATS: Tile sales decline, comeback looms large

Floor Covering News

Continuing its downward trajectory, ceramic tile sales in 2020 experienced a low, single-digit decline in terms of overall dollar sales and similar declines in terms of volume. Ceramic tile sales in 2020 declined roughly 5%. of dollar sales for the gradually increasing hard surface market and 24.6% Department of Commerce.

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A Clean Slate: How Rough Slate Can Have a Clean Aesthetic

Architectural Ceramics

Brazil, for example is most known for it’s Brazilian Black slate. Knowing that Brazil is the second-largest resource for slate in the world, here are two designer spaces that feature slate from the area: Brazilian Black slate, and Brazilian Multi-colored slate. Photo via Libby Turner Dickstein for Architectural Ceramics.

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Exclusive: MSI sees opportunities amid challenges

Floor Covering News

Raj Shah, MSI co-CEO M S International, more commonly known as MSI, started making headlines about 15 years ago as an affordable source of ceramic tile and stone. Overall, sales growth was a bright spot. MSI, just like everyone, got over-inventoried because we assumed sales would continue to grow. Turkey, has a problem, Brazil.

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