Floor Covering News

JUNE 26, 2023

That’s how some industry observers might describe the commercial flooring industry in 2022, which continued to emerge from the wreckage of a global pandemic to experience a vibrant rebirth. Commercial flooring rebounded as sales increased 13.1% billion in 2022, Floor Covering News research shows. from roughly $6.5

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

After a little bit of a sales slowdown as spring turned into summer and fear-mongering claims of recession grew, flooring retailers en masse are telling me sales have picked up again. retail sales were unexpectedly unchanged in July as declining gasoline prices put more money in consumers’ pockets. Sales rose 10.3%

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 18, 2024

In flooring, it can be as explosive as developing completely new product formulations that offer consumers features/benefits not previously available—we’re looking at you, WPC. This year’s Floor Covering News “Industry Disrupters” 2024 issue features all manner of players that are—or are poised to—shake things up. Changing the rules.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Steve Kleinhans, Big D Floor Covering Supplies, Phoenix. The obvious challenge at retail is the impact of inflation with food and energy as this forces postponement for consumers in purchases of larger ticket discretionary spending such as new flooring. Scott Rozmus, FlorStar Sales, Romeoville, Ill.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Specialty flooring retailers are the drivers of this industry. 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. Avalon Flooring. Philadelphia, Pa.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 8, 2023

To exacerbate matters, floor covering is an attractive target because flooring materials are expensive, are in high demand and are commonly transported by the truckload—a mode of transportation commonly used by scammers. A prime example Floor Covering News contacted more than a dozen retailers about their knowledge of the scam.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 20, 2023

A credit card scam is sweeping through the flooring retail community, in some instances successfully stealing thousands of dollars from unsuspecting dealers in lost revenue and materials. This scam is rampant across the industry right now—it’s a huge issue,” said Kelby Frederick, owner of My Flooring America, based in Denton, Texas.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 9, 2021

New single-family home sales in June declined 6.6%, falling to a 676,000 annualized rate. Although new home sales are 13.5% The reasons why sales have softened since the end of 2020 have generated an ongoing debate in the media. The post New home sales decline in June appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Solon, Ohio—Tarkett, a global leader in innovative and sustainable flooring solutions, is refreshing its high-performing, premium Contour LVT offerings with two new design collections: Collaborative and Mindful Maker. To recolor any digitally printed pattern, customers can contact their local Tarkett sales representative.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 13, 2022

Travis Wilcox, VP of national sales, learned the business from the ground up, according to the company. The post Louisville Tile introduces new management team appeared first on Floor Covering News. Our senior management team consists of department leaders… that all have been very busy,” Wilcox said. “We

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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? The Floor Doctors. Doing more with less is the key for us.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 16, 2023

The list virtually covers the flooring eco-system—with manufacturing, technology, distribution and installation all represented this year, along with an outlier. No matter their company affiliation or title, many of the honorees share at least one thing in common: They are having an impact on the flooring industry.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Mortgage interest rates have stabilized in recent weeks, as the bond market deals with the expectation of tighter monetary policy from the Federal Reserve. As a result, October sales of newly built, single-family homes registered at a 632,000 seasonally adjusted annual pace, which is a 7.5% monthly increase and is 5.8%

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Tile Talk

MARCH 12, 2013

The interactive panel discussion, scheduled for May 1 at 3:15 PM, is designed to show how the internet is influencing the sale of tile to the consumer. From strict sale policies, to reduced prices and no sales tax, the internet has created a new frontier for the industry to navigate. Comment Policy. floor tile.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 10, 2020

Builders are increasingly embracing new, high-performance vinyl flooring materials in response to the growing popularity of hard surfaces. This should bode well for flooring in the next year. Further impacting new housing sales were a labor shortage within the construction trade and rising interest rates.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Sales of newly built, single-family homes in October dipped 0.3% higher than the October 2019 pace, and on a year-to-date basis, new home sales are up 20.6% “Mortgage rates remain low and builder confidence is at an all-time high indicating that demand remains steady and sales will remain solid.” Washington, D.C.—Sales

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 5, 2023

A credit card scam is sweeping through the flooring retail community , in some instances successfully stealing thousands of dollars from unsuspecting dealers in lost revenue and materials. This scam is a threat to all flooring dealers taking credit card or ACH payments over the phone in a cash-and-carry situation, industry experts agree. “We

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 2, 2020

Most flooring stores are not big corporations; they are smaller operations where the personal lives of management are almost always intertwined with the business. Tom Jennings is vice president of professional development for the World Floor Covering Association (WFCA). Very understandable.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Flooring retailers say trusted brands like Invista’s Stainmaster are serving them well in 2020. But then, soft surfaces—like every other flooring segment—ground to a halt with the swift arrival of COVID-19. But then, soft surfaces—like every other flooring segment—ground to a halt with the swift arrival of COVID-19. By Ken Ryan.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The job market’s strong, unemployment still low So spending on flooring continued to grow. Across the floor Mohawk showed all they could A new ColorWall, Signature and, of course, RevWood. America’s Floor Source made a good bet By hiring industry veteran Michel Vermette. Nicholas appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 26, 2021

The key to helping the customer find the right floor. R etail sales associates looking to recommend the right hardwood flooring product for the customer when she walks into the store need to ask a series of fact-finding questions to determine her precise wants and needs. For example, where will the new floor be installed?

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 19, 2023

This month marks the first time in a year that both the current and future sales components of the HMI have exceeded 60, as some buyers adjust to a new normal in terms of interest rates. The post Builder confidence grows in June appeared first on Floor Covering News. The share was 27% in May and 30% in April.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Multi-family housing activity in 2019 can be best be described as lackluster, especially compared to the sales seen on the single- family side of the business. Unfortunately, many communities are attempting to improve housing affordability with policies that do not work—i.e., Flooring trends.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 16, 2023

The best way to bring housing inflation down and ease the housing affordability crisis is to enact policies at all levels of government that will allow builders to construct more homes to address a nationwide shortfall of approximately 1.5 The post Builder confidence retreats in August appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 16, 2024

We are forecasting more rapid growth in 2025 with still lower mortgage rates and a persistent housing shortfall.” The housing market, a major driver of residential flooring sales, appears to have passed peak mortgage rates. On a year-to-date basis, NAHB reports new home sales are up between 2.6% and 5% in each of the four U.S.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 28, 2022

The intended monetary policy path of the Federal Reserve is more accelerated than what NAHB had built into its initial 2022 forecast. Monetary policy tightening can help normalize financial conditions and tamper inflation, but it cannot solve current economic challenges by itself.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 8, 2022

Rising mortgage interest rates, spurred by expected, significant tightening of monetary policy by the Federal Reserve, will aggravate housing affordability challenges in 2022. Similar to what occurred in 2018, higher mortgage rates will slow sales and construction in an otherwise positive demand-side environment. New home sales in Feb.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 16, 2022

The list includes household names familiar to flooring industry observers as well as names you may never have heard of—until now. The specialty flooring retailer—you and me—is why Danny and the entire SFN team show up every day. After 28 years in flooring, Jamann joined TDG in mid-2018. And it’s true.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 7, 2021

QLeads ensures all leads make their way into the CRM, so retailers and their team can focus on turning leads into sales. Beseda Flooring in St. Sara Glance, office manager of Hughes Floor Covering in Charlotte, N.C., The post QFloors rolls out new lead management tool appeared first on Floor Covering News. Charles, Mo.,

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 31, 2023

The midterm elections created what many flooring executives say is a desirable outcome—a divided government with Republicans narrowly winning the House, and Democrats maintaining control of the Senate by the slimmest of margins. fiscal policy. Scott Rozmus, FlorStar Sales, Romeoville, Ill.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 3, 2021

The 45 members are among the sharpest and most successful flooring retailers in the country and their wisdom can often be applied to all dealers, large and small. Paul De C**k, left, president of Mohawk North America, and Piet Dossche, former EVP, hard surfaces, Shaw Floors, connect at the NFA spring meeting. Boyajian, A.J.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 23, 2022

This approach reflects a non-monetary policy failure to fix underlying supply-side challenges that are pushing up inflation. The Federal Reserve lacks policy tools to make these supply-side fixes, so it must rely on demand-side impacts to bring down inflation by reducing economic growth. appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 21, 2022

Cali Floors. Cali Floors has proven to be a trusted partner for retailers in the face of hardship. Our MSRP and map pricing policy allows that customer to have confidence she’s getting the best price wherever she makes the purchasing decision.”. Engineered Floors. Fast growing flooring brand keeps pedal to the metal.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 29, 2020

As Georgia became one of the first states to relax restrictions amid the still ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the state’s largest flooring companies say they were not influenced by Gov. By working together to ensure our response policies and protocols are followed, we can help control the spread of the virus and ?keep Retailers adapt.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 1, 2020

NWFA’s first-ever virtual conference, which kicked off on April 30, welcomed hundreds of hardwood flooring contractors from around the country. In 2019, when the National Wood Flooring Association (NWFA) began contemplating potential themes for its 2020 Wood Flooring Expo—originally scheduled to take place in Milwaukee, Wis.,

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

20, 2021, flooring industry leaders are mulling what impact President-elect Joe Biden and his policies might have on business. Stimulus was vital in a rapid restart of our economy and can only help again,” said Craig Phillips, president, Carpet Country and Barrington Carpet & Flooring Design, Twinsburg, Ohio. By Ken Ryan.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Our latest survey shows 62% of builders are using incentives to bolster sales, including providing mortgage rate buy-downs, paying points for buyers and offering price reductions. and for the first time since April, builders registered an increase in future sales expectations.

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