Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 17, 2022

When you’re a relatively small hard surface flooring supplier looking to stake your claim with flooring retailers, it’s better to be quick and agile. What’s hot right now for PDI is its Poseidon laminate, a waterproof product it sources from China. Being the biggest isn’t always the best position to be in.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

But this bottleneck is old news for the flooring industry, which has been dealing with it in earnest since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Marine Exchange of Southern California, the higher the number of ships waiting offshore, the bigger the queue and the longer it takes for a vessel to get a berth.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

There is no escaping it: 2020 is the year of COVID-19, and flooring distributors of all sizes dealt with the myriad effects—an abrupt shutdown that upended the second quarter followed by a resurgence. Some very sophisticated players have had serious troubles producing consistent, high-quality product outside of China. By Ken Ryan.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 29, 2021

Republic Floor has come a long way in six and a half years. Republic bills itself as a logistics company that happens to sell floors. It designs its own papers, but even before it imports its own raw materials from the Middle East to China. “So, We started with laminate; we became the kings of laminate in California.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The popularity of waterproof/SPC flooring has seized market share from so many categories, but is has also taken the average price point so low that most retailers, distributors and manufacturers have lost $1 to $1.50 The line also meets environmental standards related to California Air Resource Board (CARB) emissions, according to HF Design.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 17, 2023

Republic Floors has become a significant player in the floor covering arena with annual sales approaching $200 million. Because Republic has the financial means, because we have our own R&D department, our own design centers in China and Germany, we invest a lot of money in new designs. C omm er c e , C alif.—Eight

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Granada Tile

JUNE 27, 2018

Founded by Jaime Derringer, a Jersey girl now living the laid back life in Southern California, Design Milk is dedicated to the best in modern design. Lewis’s casual, laid back, Southern California-infused style, which introduces a soupçon of bohemian elegance into all of her projects cozy, eclectic, and unique.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 22, 2021

By Ken Ryan The California ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have been overburdened by container imports over the last few months, resulting in a logjam of freight that has led to product shortages and delays for flooring retailers, mostly in the LVT category. A case in point is Frazier’s Carpet One Floor & Home, Knoxville, Tenn.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

According to their son, Raj Shah, president, it’s in the company’s DNA to continuously find ways to engineer methodologies in logistics, product innovation and merchandising and marketing strategies to make flooring and countertops more affordable and accessible to the consumer without sacrificing manufacturer or retailer profitability.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 26, 2021

By Reginald Tucker T he skyrocketing popularity of SPC/rigid core continues to lure new players to the game—from those that manufacture other flooring products to pure startups. Lions Floor is no exception. Lions Floor, based in Santa Fe Springs, Calif., Lions Floor did not enter the market with guns blazing.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 6, 2021

How do you remember the wood flooring industry in 1986? Wood flooring went from 22% of the market down to about 2%. When I got to Anderson, wood flooring was at the lowest ebb. Who were the players in wood flooring? How did the hardwood flooring industry begin to grow from there? ” Q&A.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Lions Floor has taken another big step toward building its national supply chain infrastructure with the recent grand opening of a new, state-of-the-art distribution center in Houston. In addition to flooring products, we have moldings, transitions and moisture barriers. Lions Floor is not one of those companies.

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Decorator on Demand

JANUARY 6, 2010

We took some much needed time off to celebrate the holiday season at our dear friends gorgeous ranch in California and boy did it feel great.No Here are some really pretty close ups of the mission itself.This is the largest California mission church and was named for John the Baptist. floor molding. (1). flooring tiles. (1).

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 18, 2022

Jerry Guo, president of Lions Floor, previewing samples of some of the company’s latest rigid core products at Surfaces earlier this year. Lions Floor is not one of those companies. That picture includes an array of visuals created specifically for Lions Floor and developed in conjunction with the company’s design team in China.

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Kitchen and Residential Design

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Every time that happens by the way, its another job exported to Mexico or China; countries where living wages and environmental regulations are considered to be quaint ideas at best. 11 comments: Anonymous 20 December, 2011 09:14 I live in a small town in Southern California. flooring. (30). wholesale flooring. (1).

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Decorator on Demand

MAY 18, 2010

My new fav in Schumacher features California fashion designer, Trina Turk fabrics that have vibrant colors and very yummy patterns.Here are just a few.Lots of color palettes and interchangeable choices. floor molding. (1). flooring tiles. (1). hardwood floors. (1). Tuesday, May 18, 2010. Vibrant Outdoor Fabrics.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

T he resilient category has been the powerhouse of the flooring industry for the last several years—with rigid core products leading the charge. The resilient category will grow in 2023 and continue to take share within flooring. 1 initiative is service for both our COREtec brand and Shaw Floors Floorté line. Steve Sieracki.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 20, 2021

By Reginald Tucker The hardwood flooring category continued to feel the effects of the rising popularity of competing wood look-alike alternatives in 2020, as the hardwood segment took another hit for the second year running. of the total flooring market in 2020 in terms of dollars. sales, Mercier Wood Flooring. “We

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