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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Year-to-date, sales in our two retail stores are up a combined 23% over last year.”. Davenport, Iowa. Brian’s Flooring & Design in Birmingham, Ala., We think the winter residents from up north will be happy to get back down here, and with that we expect strong sales,” he said. Products in demand.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The top suppliers, many floor covering retailers agree, are the ones that help specialty retailers maintain healthy profit margins—especially in an extremely competitive environment inundated with so many me-too products jockeying for market share. They stand behind their products, they don’t play games with us.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 13, 2024

It’s a quickly evolving field, one that will make us much more productive, and this will require us to adapt.” I’m interested in known, trackable production, impact and results.” The Alliance Flooring buying group, for example, uses AI in its Interactive Design Consul- tant, or IDC, service.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Many veteran retailers recall fondly a time when carpet was their mainstay product—long before LVT emerged. About the product: Confetti III is a residential textured carpet from Dream Weaver, Engineered Floors’ residential brand. Doug Bertrand, Carpetland USA, Davenport, Iowa. This product has value written all over it.

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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

MARCH 19, 2024

Simply put, Perfect Home is a curated selection of products designed to simplify the shopping experience for the consumer. It uses a two-pronged approach to flooring sales—merchandising and technology—to bridge the gap between the digital and in-store experience. The AI RSA (Beth) is a tremendous leap forward.

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StoneDimensions

JANUARY 19, 2015

I am employed at Coldspring, in Cold Spring, MN (formally known as the Cold Spring Granite Company) where I head up the sales and marketing for the company and have been in the stone industry with Coldspring since 1977. ” This mission statement was crafted in 2010 and remains relative today.

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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. Their agenda is not to sell product,” said Tyler Geren, CEO, Bella Flooring, one of the first suppliers to sign on for the private-label program. One of those things is the products.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 25, 2023

The mass merchant channel represents more than 25% of retail flooring sales, according to Floor Covering News research. What’s even more imposing is the nearly $17 billion in combined flooring sales of the “Big 3:” Home Depot, Lowe’s and Floor & Decor. We can offer better value for several off-the-shelf products.”

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 21, 2020

. “Our entire sales team operates with iPads, so they are comfortable with technology. We can select products via virtual visits, use our website or vendor websites to select products or bring a mobile showroom with our core products to the customer’s house to complete the entire transaction electronically.

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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. It’s not about product; it’s about a feeling. I get calls all the time from dealers asking about products that aren’t even mine. People are paying high dollars for our product.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 18, 2020

Eric Langan, owner of Carpetland USA (The Langan Group), with nine locations in Iowa and Illinois, believes the situation will have a negative impact on its won business and on the industry alike. We have ample supply of cleaning products that we are asking our employees to use at their workstations several times a day,” he said.

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