CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

JANUARY 30, 2012

Menzies was entertained by the stunning floral tiles that surrounded her grandmother’s best room fireplace. Taylor was spending an early childhood in front of a Tiffany tile fireplace at his family’s home. The foundation has since come to be seen as the singular authority on art tile heritage in the United States.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 24, 2021

laminate flooring market that hadn’t occurred since 2015— the category actually grew in terms of both sales and volume. FCNews research pegged laminate flooring sales at the first point of distribution in the U.S. of total flooring sales and 5.6% Sales by channel. billion in sales—up 9.6% at $1.144 billion, a 5.8%

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Floor Covering News

JULY 10, 2023

This was a major development for the flooring industry as an estimated 10% of the world’s PVC originates from the Xinjiang region—and all of Xinjiang’s PVC facilities have documented ties to the region’s labor transfer programs, according to CBP. In the case of Grigsby’s Carpet Tile & Hardwood, the Tulsa, Okla.-based

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

We monitor traffic and closing rates in each location, and if we lose an order we document who won the project.” E-commerce’s share of total retail sales is expected to rise from nearly 21% to almost 24% in 2023, CBRE, a commercial real estate and investment firm, reported. Friend or foe?

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

These include: carpet, underlayment, fibers, fabrics, turf, laminate flooring, ceramic tile, wood, LVT, SPC and other resilient flooring, vacuums, cleaning chemicals and automotive parts. We’ve never really had a sales force that goes out and visits clients,” he explained. People down here in Dalton know us.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 16, 2021

If you’re installing over a concrete subfloor, ensure that you possess ASTM standard documentation that proves the concrete has been tested for the correct moisture conditions. You may be able to get this from the general contractor, or you may have to conduct the testing and document the results yourself. ” TRIED AND TRUE.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

JULY 24, 2012

One-on-One with Donato Pompo, Ceramic Tile and Stone Consultants. One might say Donato Pompo’s career in tile was foreordained. Most importantly, he is the founder of San Diego-based Ceramic Tile and Stone Consultants, and the University of Tile and Stone, a pre-eminent provider of education to industry employees and customers.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 16, 2023

laminate flooring category has been well documented. We’re very excited about our laminate products, which is a new category for Johnson,” said John Ousley, vice president of sales and distribution. T he resurgence of the U.S. SPC and WPC) due primarily to supply chain challenges with some popular, imported resilient products.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 14, 2019

Construction Management Fees and Site Superintendent Fees (in my area of the world, these are typically set at 10% to 20% of the total construction cost) Sales Tax Permits Hardscape (exterior built items i.e. sidewalks, driveways, patios, pools, etc.) specialty energy features like geothermal, handmade tiles, etc.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 14, 2023

As the industry nears the halfway point of 2023, commercial flooring sales are tracking to sustain moderate growth, industry watchers say, with some end use segments faring better than others. The reasons are well documented. Hard surfaces is on pace to post a single-digit sales increase over 2022 commercial sales of $3.6

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 11, 2020

That’s due in large measure to the well-documented waterproof attributes LVT, WPC and SPC products provide. According to Steve Wagner, director of sales and marketing, the product is fully waterproof—a trait that helps it compete toe to toe with virtually any product on the market and virtually eliminates moisture-related flooring failures.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In choosing their top retailer partners, suppliers looked beyond sales volume to other key attributes such as communication skills, trust, company culture and even benevolence as differentiating factors. Combine that with the local sales representation, Shaw’s distribution and their gold standard customer service, it was a win for everyone.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 21, 2023

While there are still four months left before the calendar turns, category experts agree 2023 will likely see the first resilient sales decline for the category. The consensus among the major resilient flooring suppliers is that once the dust clears, 2023 will see resilient sales down mid-to-high single digits. “A

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Floor Covering News

JULY 24, 2020

Within the LVT category, SPC and WPC continue to drive sales. Not only is the product seizing more market share from competing flooring products, but industry executives also say it’s cannibalizing sales from products within the resilient segment. By Megan Salzano. Pictured is Distinction Plus from Shaw Floors’ Floorte? collection.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 7, 2021

What retailers are saying: “It is a full-service package that can be accessed from anywhere,” said Andrew Shalkos, principal, Thomas Tile & Carpet, Addison, Ill. The less time you have a customer sitting in front of you while you close the sale the better. The inventory module has also proven to be extremely useful.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 24, 2022

By Reginald Tucker—T he well-documented supply chain disruptions originally caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic—now further exacerbated by inflation , runaway energy prices and other major global events—have impacted virtually every level of the flooring industry. All of that put together as volume goes up benefits the retailer.”.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 20, 2022

The top-line sales are there,” FEI Group’s Howerton said. The most obvious is global logistics concerns tied to import uncertainty,” said Dan Butterfield, vice president, residential sales, Dal-Tile. Stateside manufacturing is a critical touch point,” noted Larry Browder, executive vice president of sales, Crossville.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

and home sale] Okay, maybe there was some hyperbole there on my part, but I still think that the things that people see and get excited about have more to do with their ability to project their lives into a particular lifestyle. Corian, Avonite, quartz, glass, concrete; stome; tile; etc.–even Consider only counter tops.

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