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In Search of Recovery by Jeffrey Steele

CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

Steve Rausch, Atlanta-based field marketing and technical services manager for Chicago-based U.S. percent, and existing home sales grew by 17.8 It’s also been reported that floor covering store sales have increased as well. “But it’s a recovery in terms of those businesses who are still there trying to make a profit.”.

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Footprints Floors continues national expansion

Floor Covering News

Specifically, the Footprints Floors team is targeting California, New Jersey, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Virginia, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Maryland for expansion. There’s genuine care for the customer and a passion for building a strong reputation —and the customers can feel that.”

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Latest hardwood trends focus on color, format

Floor Covering News

The lighter, cooler colors we’re seeing in California, for example, are making their way over into the middle part of the country and even into markets in the Northeast and Southeast,” said Jamann Stepp, vice president of hard surfaces, Dixie Home, which markets the high-end Fabrica Wood line. These are more traditional colors,” she added.

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Planning on Selling your Home? Here’s the Best Time to List Your House — and It’s Soon

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

Zillow , the online real estate company that keeps a database of nationwide sales, just published a report with insights on the best time to sell your house for the most money. It’s time to prep your house to list for the biggest profit and fastest sale. In San Jose, California, $18,900. And in Chicago, $3,300.

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35th Anniversary: 35 Women in Flooring

Floor Covering News

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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Consumer interest in suburban living offers opportunity for flooring retailers

Floor Covering News

Not only would such a development stand to have a major impact on residential real estate sales and home prices, but it could also bode well for independent flooring dealers —the vast majority of which are located outside major cities. She added that 90% of her clients are coming from California, Seattle or Portland.

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Dealers react to Lowe’s Stainmaster buy

Floor Covering News

California-based Flooring 101 plans to retrofit its Stainmaster section with other mill offerings. The reason we decided to become an SFC was to help drive retail traffic through Stainmaster’s online lead generation,” said Joel Schreier, president of Home Carpet One Floor & Home in Chicago. more gross profit points.

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