Floor Covering News

JANUARY 10, 2024

In this role, Tippett will assume sales responsibility and reporting for Stanton’s hard surface business. She will report to Jamann Stepp, senior vice president of hard surface. With the acquisition of Floors 2000 in August 2022, Stanton doubled down on its LVP offering, adding ceramic and porcelain tile to its portfolio.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In this position Stepp will assume overall responsibility and reporting for Stanton’s entire hard surface business. We’re thrilled to have Jamann join Stanton and confident that his expertise, leadership and passion for the business, coupled with Stanton’s seasoned, hard-working sales team will accomplish this goal.”

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 13, 2022

D espite all the challenges facing the commercial contract market today—the residual effects of the pandemic, sky-high inflation, ongoing supply chain challenges and the war in Ukraine—key end-use sectors for commercial flooring are showing signs of recovery, stimulating hope that market conditions will improve in the second half of 2022.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Daltile’s Rekindle tile flooring collection features StepWise and Microban technology, making it more slip resistant while also eliminating 99% of bacteria on the tile surface. In 2019, the tile flooring category experienced its first decline in a decade as tariffs and antidumping legislation hit the market. billion square feet, up 0.7%

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

ceramic market will be down mid-single digits in sales and high single digitals in volume when the calendar flips to 2024. It was, however, a sizeable 23% increase in sales from 2020’s $2.844 billion when the category experienced its first decline since 2009 amid the Great Recession. million units, according to a report from the U.S.

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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

MAY 25, 2021

FCNews research shows commercial flooring revenues (including specified business as well as Main Street sales) totaled $6.134 billion last year—a falloff of 11.1% The corporate market took the biggest hit in 2020 as its share fell from 42% of sales in 2019 to approximately 38% last year. compared to 2019. and 4.3%, respectively.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 18, 2022

The show itself, while slightly lagging behind in attendance compared to pre-pandemic years, was awash with flooring suppliers, dealers, distributors, designers and architects who were excited to get back to business and meet their partners and peers face-to-face to build business in 2022. According to the report, U.S. There was 2.23

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 9, 2020

Pictured is Daltile’s Vertuo, a mix and match collection of porcelain tile featuring two different nature-inspired looks. economy—and the commercial flooring market is no exception. Heading into 2020, commercial flooring was on pace to sustain modest growth across the board. Leading the pack, of course, is resilient flooring.

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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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JG Kitchens

MARCH 27, 2018

Grey, white, black remain the top three colors in that order for both floor and walls with greige (gray-beige) following as a close fourth depending on the collection’s design inspiration. Vives Doney (floor), Vives Mosaico Necci Blanco (wall). Almost without exception, manufacturers are reporting their top sellers to be planks.

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JG Kitchens

MARCH 27, 2018

Grey, white, black remain the top three colors in that order for both floor and walls with greige (gray-beige) following as a close fourth depending on the collection’s design inspiration. Vives Doney (floor), Vives Mosaico Necci Blanco (wall). Almost without exception, manufacturers are reporting their top sellers to be planks.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 19, 2021

By Megan Salzano While 2020 was anything but ordinary, there was one thing the flooring industry could count on: the continued popularity of the resilient category. It will come as no surprise that resilient—led mostly by the rigid core/SPC sub-segments —once again registered gains while many other flooring categories in 2020 did not.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

MP Global’s QuietWalk Luxury Vinyl is a premium recycled fiber underlayment built for luxury vinyl plank, luxury vinyl tile and multi-layer flooring such as WPC, SPC and rigid core vinyl planks. Quinn—A common theme for innovation in most industries is “better, faster, cheaper,” and flooring installation is no different. Pros vs. cons.

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Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

JUNE 6, 2018

Blue bathrooms top the list, adding up to “$5,400 more than expected to the sale price.” Zillow’s report says that light blue bathrooms are best, although any blue seems to work. Light blue bathrooms You don’t need to add blue from floor to ceiling to create a dramatic blue bathroom.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

‘s Donato Pompo, citing findings from Catalina Research, the primary source for ceramic tile industry data, ceramic tile is leading the floor covering sales recovery, as tile manufacturers leverage the rebound in existing home sales and housing starts. floor coverings manufacturer dollar sales and 12.9

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Tile Redi®, world-leading manufacturer and marketer of pre-formed, one-piece shower pans and related accessories, received the award for “Surfaces 2013 Best New Product” sponsored by Floor Tends and Tile magazines. Garry will be reporting to LATICRETE Regional Sales Manager, Greg Braswell, who stated, “T.J. Mike Ward, U.S.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 22, 2021

Daltile’s Defend tile line features Microban technology to attract consumers looking for healthy, clean floor products. By Megan Salzano Ceramic tile is one of only two truly aspirational product categories available in flooring today—hardwood being the other. In fact, purchases of high-end homes in the U.S. That’s compared to the 17.8%

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 9, 2021

As it turns out, the flooring industry has its disrupters as well. For the flooring industry, the pandemic has caused major supply chain disruptions that impacted manufacturers and distributors and, eventually, retailers—who at times throughout 2020 were out of stock on certain products. Supply chain issues persist to this day.

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Tile Talk

JANUARY 7, 2014

Last year, I reported that for the "first time in three years, a white tile was not our top seller!" In 2013, Avente was sourced for a record number of commercial projects which certainly impacted the top of the sales list. floor tile. Artisan Porcelain Tiles for the Pool. Flooring The Consumer. at 6:00 AM.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

JANUARY 11, 2013

based Dancik International, a 27-year-old, 44-employee software firm specializing in ceramic tile, flooring and natural stone products, is also predicting growth. Dancik acknowledges he is seeing distributors using iPads and other tablets, instead of bulkier laptops, and finding them used in showrooms and outside sales.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

According to their son, Raj Shah, president, it’s in the company’s DNA to continuously find ways to engineer methodologies in logistics, product innovation and merchandising and marketing strategies to make flooring and countertops more affordable and accessible to the consumer without sacrificing manufacturer or retailer profitability.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

JULY 24, 2012

Then I specialized in architectural and contractor sales, and specified and sold many larger architectural projects. I later worked as a sales manager for Laticrete International for seven years, before founding Ceramic Tile and Stone Consultants (CTaSC) on May 5, 2002. What does the training consist of?

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