Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

I nnovation is at the heart of product development for flooring manufacturers. Fortunately, this year’s “must-have” product introductions serve as a compilation of in-demand and innovative soft and hard surface flooring. As a result, Dundee solid oak floors provide strong resistance to everyday dirt and wear.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 30, 2023

After turning in a stellar performance in 2021 with growth rates in both sales and volume landing in the high double-digits, the U.S. hardwood flooring category took a big step back in 2022. Floor Covering News research shows hardwood flooring revenues fell 9.8% Last year, hardwood flooring accounted for 14.1%

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

W hy are flooring suppliers bullish about growth prospects for Main Street when most economic indicators convey uncertainty? There have been concerns about higher inflation and rising interest rates within the lending industry over the past year,” noted Glenn King, vice president sales, Southeast region, Stanton Carpet.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

No longer content with beiges and grays, consumers today are demanding more color choices in their carpet. We’re able to design impressively clean visuals that enhance colors vividly with great intensity. ENGINEERED FLOORS. ColorBurst is touted as the next evolution in variable-color technology. By Ken Ryan. ColorBurst.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 6, 2021

While the flooring industry has been a “man’s world” for decades, women are rising in the ranks and accomplishing incredible things that have helped move the industry forward. Cheryl Acierno has been engaged in the floor covering industry for her entire career, owning Acierno & Company for the past 21 years. Cheryl Acierno.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 26, 2023

That’s how some industry observers might describe the commercial flooring industry in 2022, which continued to emerge from the wreckage of a global pandemic to experience a vibrant rebirth. Commercial flooring rebounded as sales increased 13.1% billion in 2022, Floor Covering News research shows. from roughly $6.5

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Granada Tile

OCTOBER 30, 2022

They are also easy to clean and maintain, making them an ideal choice for busy homeowners who want a beautiful, long lasting floor surface. They are also available in a wide range of colors, sizes, textures, and styles making them extremely versatile. Do you need a specific color? You have to choose from what they offer.

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Granada Tile

OCTOBER 30, 2022

They are also easy to clean and maintain, making them an ideal choice for busy homeowners who want a beautiful, long lasting floor surface. They are also available in a wide range of colors, sizes, textures, and styles making them extremely versatile. Do you need a specific color? You have to choose from what they offer.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 14, 2023

The Main Street marketplace is—and always will be—a driver in the market economy,” said Glenn King, vice president of sales, Southeast region, Stanton Carpet. billion-plus commercial flooring market, with specified contract representing the lion’s share of sales, preliminary FCNews research shows.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

These awards honor groundbreaking ideas and industry-changing concepts that have the potential to impact the way flooring is manufactured, promoted and sold. No Dye Lot means the color of the carpet will be the same from roll to roll, regardless of when it was manufactured. This helps retailers better manage inventory and reduce waste.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 3, 2023

These awards honor groundbreaking ideas and industry-changing concepts that have the potential to impact the way flooring is manufactured, promoted and sold. Premier Flooring Center. For retail sales associates, PFC is intended to be the easiest way to sell flooring—with confidence and simplicity. The Dixie Group.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Digital printing may just now be making its way into the manufacturing process of some flooring categories, but for ceramic it has been changing the game for more than a decade. The advent of digital printing—versus the traditional silk screen and roto-color—brought with it a whole new world for tile. marble, stone, wood, etc.)

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Floor Covering News

MAY 16, 2023

Lux Flooring’s SPC products feature a 22-mil thickness and a virgin stone core for added durability. W hile some flooring companies aim to be many different things to many different retailers—providing a breadth of product categories from wood to resilient to ceramic—Lux Flooring’s focus is singular: SPC luxury vinyl flooring.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 27, 2023

—Mohawk is investing in the powerhouse product brand with a state-of-the-art merchandising destination, the SmartStrand Color Wall. Designed to elevate the overall shopping experience, Mohawk’s SmartStrand Color Wall is designed to inspire consumers to easily shop and confidently select a color and comfort level for their home.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

—Mohawk is investing in the powerhouse product brand with a state-of-the-art merchandising destination, the SmartStrand Color Wall. Designed to elevate the overall shopping experience, Mohawk’s SmartStrand Color Wall aims to inspire consumers to easily shop and confidently select a color and comfort level for their home.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Al Capaul, owner, Capaul Floors and Cabinets, Mauston, Wis. Product offerings: Flooring, window treatments, cabinets, countertops. We implemented the changes by adding samples and vignettes and then getting the sales reps to come and help train. Product offerings: Flooring, window treatments. ” The RESULT.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 19, 2021

By Megan Salzano While 2020 was anything but ordinary, there was one thing the flooring industry could count on: the continued popularity of the resilient category. It will come as no surprise that resilient—led mostly by the rigid core/SPC sub-segments —once again registered gains while many other flooring categories in 2020 did not.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 1, 2022

T he comeback that was predicted in 2020 after ceramic flooring sales experienced its first downward trajectory in several years was right on point as 2021 saw vast improvement across the board. FCNews research shows ceramic experienced an 8.2% FCNews research shows ceramic experienced an 8.2% billion and 1.38

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Y ou can’t talk to a carpet executive these days without at least one of them waxing poetic about their latest palette or coloration. And by color, they’re not talking various shades of bland, boring beige. Colors today are much more vibrant—so much so that mills are marketing their latest hues and shades as a major differentiator.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 28, 2022

When all the numbers were tabulated for 2021, FCNews research found that overall carpet sales grew 11.5% to $8.201 billion compared with $7.355 billion carpet sales in 2020. Residential carpet sales were up an astounding 17.2%. Together, carpet/rugs remain the largest category within flooring, accounting for 47.9%

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 22, 2021

She and her colleagues Cristen Del Bove and Renee Cannon form one of the strongest design teams in the floor covering industry. Cannon started at Mannington in 2007 as an intern doing color work for sheet vinyl and commercial carpet. It’s the same with flooring. Marchetta noted that 95% of their job is research.

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Granada Tile

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Homeowners of all tastes are turning towards tiles, specifically cement tiles, for their unique patterns, vivid colors, and practical qualities. The firing process heats the clay and powdered colors to seal in the design and create a hard surface. You may also find this useful: Cement Tiles vs Ceramic Tiles.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 15, 2023

In fact, many successful flooring retailers know when to turn away business, even telling potential customers that they might be better served going elsewhere. Turning ‘Nos’ into a ‘Yes’ “When a potential customer says, ‘I’m just looking,’ or ‘I’m doing research; we’re not ready to buy today,’ we say: ‘Great, we have a lot to look at.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Zurfluh has spent the majority of her career in the floor covering industry focusing on both the residential and commercial segments. She then went on to work in New York and Los Angeles where her experience ranged from managing trend research and designing new products and color lines to branding, art direction and advertising.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

F amily owned and operated since the founding of its parent company, Pelican Creations, nearly 25 years ago, Pelican Creations Home has made a name for itself in the ever-crowded flooring market by offering a variety of popular product categories and exceptional customer service to its retail partners. Customers react.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Despite maintaining extensive product selections, logistics hubs and customer service centers, Amazon and Wayfair appear to be flying under the radar in the residential flooring business. Online vendors continue to change the way consumers shop for home goods, including flooring.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 26, 2023

Numerous exhibition spaces and private showrooms touted new flooring lines based around collaboration from both a design and narrative perspective. Ian Burt, director of sales and marketing at Aquafil USA, agreed the show kicked off to a roaring start. We see a lot of color, more warm colors, too—not cool grays as much.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 19, 2024

Alliance Flooring co-CEOs, Ryan Dunn and Kevin Logue. O r l and o —The early returns on the Alliance Flooring new Perfect Home retail merchandising system and technology platform point to a clear-cut winner that will ultimately yield higher margins for dealers and more satisfied customers.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 18, 2021

In the second quarter of 2020, residential carpet sales plummeted 23% in volume and 27.4% in dollars, according to FCNews research. When all the numbers were crunched for 2020, FCNews research shows overall carpet sales fell 12.5% Despite this crash, carpet still remains the largest flooring segment, accounting for 48.4%

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Tattersall II by Crescent, a division of Stanton, offers striking color combinations in a traditional tailored plaid carpet design. Year-to-date, encompassing the first and second quarters, residential sales are down 3.4% versus the year-ago period, according to industry estimates; Q2 residential sales, meanwhile, are down 5.4%.

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Granada Tile

APRIL 14, 2017

Homeowners of all tastes are turning towards tiles, specifically cement tiles, for their unique patterns, vivid colors, and practical qualities. The firing process heats the clay and powdered colors to seal in the design and create a hard surface. You may also find this useful: Cement Tiles vs Ceramic Tiles.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 17, 2021

It will come as no surprise that resilient—mostly by the rigid core sub-segments—registered gains in 2020 while many other flooring categories did not. FCNews research showed the category generated $6.589 billion in sales in 2020 —an industry-leading 21.3% increase over 2019’s $5.433 billion. Supply chain challenges.

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Architectural Ceramics

AUGUST 24, 2018

The color red, for example, can represent Fire. Feng Shui is a highly talked about and researched topic. AC’s brushed limestone Vestige Zebrano floor tile, semi-polished Wave limestone wall tile, and porcelain wood-plank wall tile. The color seen here, Storm, reminds us of storm clouds ready with rainfall.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 3, 2021

By Ken Ryan While the residential flooring market started to take off in the second half of 2020, fueled by the home renovation boom spurred by the COVID-19 shutdown, Main Street commercial was stuck in neutral as scores of restaurants, hair salons and other small shops closed for extended periods. Seizing opportunities.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Flooring retailers say trusted brands like Invista’s Stainmaster are serving them well in 2020. But then, soft surfaces—like every other flooring segment—ground to a halt with the swift arrival of COVID-19. But then, soft surfaces—like every other flooring segment—ground to a halt with the swift arrival of COVID-19. By Ken Ryan.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 12, 2021

While flooring is still largely ruled by well-established legends and pioneers, there’s a new generation in town. Millennials are making a name for themselves in the flooring game, taking the lead on everything from marketing to retail ownership to product design. CEO/president, Nonn’s Kitchen Bath & Flooring. Jason O’Krent.

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Garden State Tile Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

From the backsplash of your kitchen, the floors of your shower, the walls of your local bar, to the lobby of your favorite hotel – there’s no questioning the fact that tile covers some of our favorite and most intimate spaces. There are a variety of slip-resistant finishes and textures available for tile flooring.

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