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NFA members extol benefits of event’s format

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For vendors, it is that rare opportunity to hobnob with 43 of the most influential flooring retailers in the industry over four hours. Larry Flick of The Floor Store (left), discusses product with Kris Flaherty of Flooringlines. This year, 34 vendors—including six new ones—took part in the meeting, which occurs the day before Surfaces.

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Housing affordability drops to 10 year low

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To help ease growing affordability problems, policymakers must take steps to help builders to increase production to meet strong demand and stem the rapid climb in home prices that has taken place over the past year.”. For the fifth straight quarter, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, Calif. There, just 7.5%

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Shaw Residential talks multi-phase product rollout

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Tell me how this benefits the flooring retailer? If you go into places like Long Beach, you’re waiting two weeks just to dock it. Sandlin : Well, in places like Long Beach, it’s a real problem. If it was a Shaw Floors product, it would be a higher end. inches long. Across all the brands?

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Kitchen and Residential Design: Trading palm trees for corn fields

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My nieces wat to shop and my brother wants to see New York through my eyes and to meet some of my friends there. I did not like the Long Beach area, but the woman I married in 1976 had a family in Orange County, so I knew we could never go too far from there. flooring. (30). wholesale flooring. (1). Blog Off. (43).

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Lions Floor: Slow, steady wins the race

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By Reginald Tucker T he skyrocketing popularity of SPC/rigid core continues to lure new players to the game—from those that manufacture other flooring products to pure startups. Lions Floor is no exception. Lions Floor, based in Santa Fe Springs, Calif., Lions Floor did not enter the market with guns blazing.

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Housing affordability plunges in Q2

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housing market more than 1 million homes short of what is needed to meet the nation’s demand, policymakers need to focus on supply-side solutions that will enable builders to increase housing production and rein in rising home prices.”. For the third straight quarter, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, Calif., With the U.S.