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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The stay-at-home economy continues to buttress the flooring industry as remodeling projects surge. With few exceptions, flooring retailers continue to report strong activity as they enter the final four months of what has been an unprecedented 2020. Year-to-date, sales in our two retail stores are up a combined 23% over last year.”.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 18, 2022

While some flooring store owners say they felt “frozen in time” during the lockdowns of 2020, others say they seized the opportunity to rethink, revitalize and reinvent the way they do business. Why do I need a sales desk that separates staff from customers? Our space is designed to make customers feel at home.”.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 18, 2021

The new year is moving right along, and with it has come new innovations and product lines from top brands across flooring categories. When looking for new rigid core flooring lines to onboard or turning to a proven collection to make the sale, flooring retailers seek out specific qualifications in both the product and supplier.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 18, 2021

By Ken Ryan B ehind every successful floor covering retailer is a supplier—or core group of vendors—with a vested interest in the health and vitality of that retailer. Our product offering and approach to the market helps our retail partners enjoy higher sales tickets, better margins and a more profitable business.”. Engineered Floors.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

By Ken Ryan—T here are so many reasons why flooring retailers gravitate to carpet. About the product: Confetti III is a residential textured carpet from Dream Weaver, Engineered Floors’ residential brand. Doug Bertrand, Carpetland USA, Davenport, Iowa. Engineered Floors. Shaw Floors. C ONFETTI III. P ARK H ILL.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 18, 2020

With the gravity of the coronavirus (COVID-19) gripping the nation, the government mandating social distancing and schools and businesses closed or on hiatus across the country, flooring dealers have been forced to react quickly to this fluid situation. This stinks,” said Lauren Voit, owner of Great Western Flooring in Naperville, Ill.,

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Frazier’s Carpet One Floor & Home is among a bevy of flooring retailers seeing robust renovation activity. By Ken Ryan It has been well chronicled that business for the vast majority of flooring retailers have flourished since the stay-at-home economy sprouted from the COVID-19 pandemic. For Anniston, Ala.-based

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

When you hear floor covering tradeshow you expect a room full of paradoxically similar product and a dusty pitch touting sales acumen. In addition, at the show it was announced that RollMaster, a flooring industry-specific software company, had also been acquired by Broadlume. By Megan Salzano—Sarasota, Fla.—When

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 25, 2023

And only those with superior skills will be able to survive against local big boxes who leverage their national advertising and buying power to feed on consumers’ appetites for low-cost flooring. Zeigler Sons Floor Covering, Hanover, Pa., told Floor Covering News. “To To try to take them head-on is a mistake.” pointed out. “We

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 21, 2020

As flooring retailers navigate through unchartered waters during this coronavirus outbreak, they have increasingly tapped into their enterprising skills to keep business going. “Our entire sales team operates with iPads, so they are comfortable with technology. ” – Kelby Frederick, co-CEO, My Flooring America Texas.

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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. Bellera by Shaw Floors.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 15, 2022

Two years later, COD was held here without that uncertainty as the company’s top sales associates from 2020 and 2021 were acknowledged. So we need to take off our sales hat and put on our solution provider hat. It’s our responsibility as senior sales leaders to go out and teach the new people coming in. All of us do that well.

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