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Looking back: Don Finkell

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How do you remember the wood flooring industry in 1986? Wood flooring went from 22% of the market down to about 2%. When I got to Anderson, wood flooring was at the lowest ebb. Who were the players in wood flooring? How did the hardwood flooring industry begin to grow from there? ” Q&A.

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Hardwood: State of the Industry 2022

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1 issue on the minds of many hardwood flooring executives was how the category would fare in the midst of a raging pandemic. Turns out the segment—and the industry by and large—would fare well as consumers and homeowners spent more time inside and more of their disposable income on flooring and other home improvement projects.

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Stats 2021: Price hikes, organic growth drive wood’s increases

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hardwood flooring market orchestrated a dramatic turnaround in 2021. FCNews research shows wood flooring sales at the first point of sale in 2021 totaled a record $2.67 The volume growth of the hardwood flooring market in 2021 was equally impressive. billion, a head-turning increase of 21% over 2020. last year. “We

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STATS: Wood finds silver lining amid challenges

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By Reginald Tucker The hardwood flooring category continued to feel the effects of the rising popularity of competing wood look-alike alternatives in 2020, as the hardwood segment took another hit for the second year running. of the total flooring market in 2020 in terms of dollars. sales, Mercier Wood Flooring. “We