Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Yet, some retailers struggle with the sale. Often the challenge is laid at the feet of industry shortcomings such as labor and product costs; however, there’s a much simpler explanation that once remedied could potentially boost the sales potential for flooring dealers big and small: in-store merchandising. Seeing is believing.

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Architectural Ceramics

JUNE 16, 2019

For Father’s Day we interviewed a new dad, our Commercial Sales Manager, David Arabe, and got his thoughts on his new role as a dad and leading our commercial sales team. Since we have over 100,000 products, what would you choose as one of your favorite tile collections?

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Floor Covering News

MAY 21, 2021

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% Imports vs. domestics.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 5, 2021

The flooring industry was not immune to these impacts as plant shutdowns and retail showroom pauses put a crimp on product introductions. In fact, new product offerings and line extensions were robust in 2020 in what turned out to be a better-than-expected year for most flooring retailers and distributors. Or so you might think.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 3, 2022

By Ken Ryan—For many flooring retailers, 2021 represented their best sales year on record. That success didn’t happen by chance—it was quality products that helped generate the revenue stream that continues to this day. About the product: Shaw’s Pet Perfect line offers durable, easy- to-clean carpets. Panoramic’s 10.6

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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. Product prowess. Customers react.

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Tile of Spain USA

JUNE 24, 2022

Spain also produced 567 million square meters of tile increasing production 20.3% It explores the notion of maximalism, taking advantage of cultural narratives to dress up living spaces in rich colors, patterns and materials. Vincent Nomdedeu, President of ASCER. of its exports. of its exports. Featured Trends.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I think the vibe is very good,” said Patrick Warren, vice president, residential sales, dealer & showrooms, Daltile. The product integrates porcelain tile with LED lighting to create a backlit look for users. The products Daltile launched at the show were Divinium, Acreage, Artcrafted and Gamma.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 29, 2020

AHF Products is launching Hartco Contract, a new line of vinyl plank and tile floors including SPC rigid core, loose lay thick LVT and dry back traditional LVT, as well as homogeneous and heterogeneous vinyl sheet designed for light commercial, multi-family and manufactured housing installations. Mountville, Pa.—AHF

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 24, 2023

This colorful little anecdote illustrates a valuable lesson in modern retailing: Every person who enters the retail showroom is a potential client. But it can be easy to write someone off based on an initial judgement and not give the full effort on a sales pitch. We market to the better products, and that’s what people come in for.”

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 14, 2021

By Ken Ryan—For many flooring retailers, 2021 represented their best sales year ever , and it’s no wonder as the product pipeline continued to deliver innovative offerings that were in high demand. Following are some of the top must-have product introductions of 2021, along with their key selling points. Create Flooring: Lofts.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 18, 2024

Ceramic Tile is the most versatile product in the industry with the ability to clad nearly every surface in the home, proponents say. Suppliers are making it easy for consumers to mix and match their styles, too, with new technology and design-forward products meant to flow from one surface to another.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Plano, Texas—AHF Products celebrated the opening of a new design showroom here featuring a cross section of products representing its full portfolio of brands, including Bruce, Armstrong Flooring, Hartco, LM Flooring, Robbins, Parterre, tmbr, Hearthwood, Raintree and others. Product designers from AHF headquarters in Mountville, Penn.,

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Bringing our newest, most innovative products to Total Solutions Plus allows us to showcase how committed Laticrete is to building upon the legacy and values founded by Dr. Henry M. Rothberg and Lillian Rosenstock Rothberg,” said Ron Nash, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Laticrete. Products to be showcased.

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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. Our tailored loop styles released earlier this year have an innovative new loop structure that creates unique textural effects,” said Maeriel Mumpar, product designer for Anderson Tuftex. By Ken Ryan. ANDERSON TUFTEX.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 29, 2022

By Megan Salzano-Birch—Across all flooring categories suppliers are ramping up their domestic production to meet the needs of their customer base and consumers across the country. AHF Products, for example, has one of the most robust domestic production operations as any supplier in the industry. Daltile’s Dickson plant.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 10, 2018

By Nicole Murray Laminate flooring remains a viable option for flooring retailers who can position the product category as a suitable choice for high traffic areas, for its ease of cleaning and maintenance, for offering a range of colors and designs that mimic stone and hardwood flooring, and for being easy to install and relatively […].

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Floor Covering News

MAY 19, 2020

Over the past few years, carpet manufacturers have migrated to solution-dyed (SD) products in response to consumer demand for multiple colors and greater performance, whether it is stain and soil resistance or protection against fading. Their purchase is driven by color, comfort and value.”. By Ken Ryan.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 23, 2024

Adhesives can be a tricky category, especially when it comes to a flooring sale. Luckily, adhesive manufacturers know just how to position their products to the benefit of the retail sales associate. Most retailers never get to the point of discussing sundry products that go along with the sale. It’s that simple.

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Architectural Ceramics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Product pictured above: 1. Stellar handmade ceramic, Radicchio colored glaze; 4. Stellar handmade ceramic, Spice Market colored glaze; 5. Euphoria handmade ceramic, in Mystic shape, Ruby Sky colored glaze; 6. Product pictured above: 1. Product pictured above: 1. Product pictured above: 1.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

“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. We’ve had a lot more requests for architectural binders and commercial products.” There are more floors featuring yellow and green colors.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

—Karndean Designflooring has digitized its suite of architectural folders, available inside a “digital product library,” to keep its full selection of commercial products at professionals’ fingertips. Visitors to the library will find an architectural folder for each Karndean Designflooring product range.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Natural stone can be a hard product category for some retailers to get into. Not only does it require more knowledge on the part of the retail sales associate, but it also means successfully sharing that information with the consumer in a way that doesn’t turn them away from the category.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 27, 2023

However, making the sale can sometimes be laborious for the retail sales associate. With that in mind, tile suppliers are touting new-and-improved merchandising concepts designed to support the sale. The ultimate goal is to equip our retail partners for success with our products and increase their sales.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 17, 2021

When the dust cleared and all the numbers were counted, total industry sales fell just short of 2019’s numbers at $22.951 billion, a decline of 0.5%. FCNews ’ exclusive research reveals total 2020 flooring sales topped out at $22.951 billion and 18.969 billion square feet. This comes on the heels of 4.6% in volume in 2017; 5.1%

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 1, 2024

Curated education spanned hundreds of topics dedicated to hands-on processes such as safety certifications, polishing demonstrations and natural stone applications as well as providing business development resources in marketing, sales, leadership and customer relations.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

While many of the laminate, SPC and hybrid/rigid core products aim to deliver more value to the consumer, a significant portion of products showcased at Surfaces 2024 targeted the upper range of the flooring market—a place where many competing hard surfaces fear to tread. Mannington is leveraging its competitive position as well.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Urban Wood is characterized by its through-color porcelain body combined with an incredibly realistic wood-look surface, created by cutting-edge High Definition Graphic (HDG) Technology. LATICRETE has added eight bright and exhilarating additive colors to its LATICRETE® SPECTRALOCK® Dazzle line. and a >0.50 www.florim.com.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 3, 2024

New offerings can be found in the Simply the Best Values collection, the new Classics collection, the performance-driven Pet Perfect and Pet Perfect+ collections and the colorful Anso Colorwall collection. Those customers seeking premium, high-end styles can peruse the Colorwall display to find the color that speaks to them.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 7, 2020

in the company’s 100-million-square-foot production capacity facility in Tennessee. production will reduce the tile’s carbon footprint offering quicker lead times and increase energy efficiency—all with the same quality and look of Italian made porcelain— expanding Fiandre’s commitment to sustainability issues.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 25, 2020

While the LVT category and its SPC/rigid core subsegments continue to dominate the flooring market at the expense of other products, flooring retailers would be remiss to abandon carpet, laminate and sheet vinyl as viable revenue opportunities. Jamie Welborn, VP of product management, Mohawk. Travis Bass, EVP of sales, Swiss Krono USA.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

I would probably say the market’s going to be, at best, flat, maybe even a little bit down,” said Dick Quinlan, VP of sales and marketing, Wellmade. I think it’s going to be a tough first half of the year,” noted Yon Hinkle, VP of product management, resilient, AHF Products. “We Units might be flat.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Las Vegas—While many of the laminate, SPC and hybrid/rigid core products aim to deliver more value to the consumer, a significant portion of hardwood flooring products showcased at Surfaces this year targeted the upper echelon of the market. It’s a product that’s going to stand the test of time.”

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 17, 2024

However, where laminate has had to play “catch-up” in recent years is in the waterproof/water-resistant department—the domain of rigid core products like SPC and WPC. Following is an overview of some of the latest laminate flooring products designed to give rigid core a run for its money.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 1, 2020

With the bevy of products from which to choose today, consumers can sometimes seem overwhelmed with options. To combat this challenge, retailers say it’s important to not only present a clean, uncluttered environment that’s conducive to browsing, but to also arrange products in a fashion that facilitates easier decision making.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

However, scores of suppliers of competitive waterproof products such as resilient and even some high-performance laminates and hybrids are responding by highlighting select collections that provide retailers with trade-up opportunities and, by extension, higher profit margins. We decided we’re not going to the bottom anymore.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 18, 2023

Others might say it’s the value those products provide. Fast forward to today, the company has grown into a multi-product, $200 million-plus powerhouse under the auspices of Doug Jackson, CEO, and a talented and expanding sales, marketing and operational team with aspirations of doubling the business in the near future.

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