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. The vendors themselves implore us to show those highlighted products that are still available.”

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Despite maintaining extensive product selections, logistics hubs and customer service centers, Amazon and Wayfair appear to be flying under the radar in the residential flooring business. Online vendors continue to change the way consumers shop for home goods, including flooring.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 15, 2023

In fact, many successful flooring retailers know when to turn away business, even telling potential customers that they might be better served going elsewhere. We want customers to love the style and design of the products. Have you installed any new flooring in your showroom? And then we will discuss price and performance.”

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Las Vegas—Undaunted by the continuing presence of COVID-19 and the Omicron variant, flooring retailers who trekked to Las Vegas for Surfaces 2022 say they were happy to have made the trip. From seeing new products to connecting with customers, dealers gave the show rave reviews and agreed there is nothing quite like Surfaces.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 30, 2021

Eric Wooten, Johnson Floor & Home Carpet One, Tulsa, Okla. Nick Freadreacea, The Flooring Gallery, Louisville, Ky. There is a solid core group of people who are dealing with the customers on a daily basis, so when someone calls about her product, it is not, “Please hold so I can plug in your order number.”

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The “show,” of course, was Surfaces 2022 —the first fully vested flooring convention since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Surfaces 2022 event, meanwhile, featured all the major players as well as top-tier flooring retailers. Judy Rosas, Sergio Rosas Flooring, Valencia, Calif., I am new to the flooring business.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 11, 2023

I saw the same product cheaper at the store down the street—can you match it?” Floor Covering News rounded up a few experts to get their advice on how to handle such situations. That’s similar to the approach taken by sales representatives at Grigsby’s Carpet, Tile & Hardwood, Tulsa, Okla. I’m never a ‘salesperson.’

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 25, 2021

Cali’s SPC flooring products are designated as completely waterproof. By Ken Ryan and Reginald Tucker Consumers may not know an SPC from a WPC but they can relate to waterproof flooring. It’s what draws them into retail showrooms and helped fuel the runaway sales of the resilient flooring category. Have a flood?

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 30, 2022

For the first time in 15 years the International Surface Event (Surfaces 2022) will include every major flooring manufacturer on the show floor as an exhibitor. Shaw Floors’ returning to the show this year is also a huge benefit.”. Ditto for Penny Carnino, COO, Grigsby’s Carpet, Tile and Hardwood, Tulsa, Okla.,

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

“Many NFA members were outspoken in their request to come together this fall, albeit in a cautionary manner,” Jason McSwain, president of the NFA and owner of McSwain Carpets & Floors, Cincinnati, told FCNews. “On-site Penny Carnino, COO of Grigsby’s Carpet, Tile & Hardwood, Tulsa, Okla., Members buy in.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 2, 2021

These features include educational insights, new and staple hardwood products and a spotlight featuring one of the Coalition’s members. The concept of waterproof floors—whether it’s hard-wood, SPC/WPC or rigid core/wood hybrids—is truly resonating with consumers. Compared to an untreated engineered wood floor—after three days of sub-.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 28, 2020

“We just had a dealer in Minnesota who worked with a local bowling alley to install one of our click LVT products and get the space in tip top shape for its customers.” based New Dimension Hardwood Floors. Commercial projects were also the saving grace for dealers like Tulsa, Okla.-based Such was the case with Eugene, Ore.-based

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

” For several flooring retailers, these are the first words now found at the top of their websites following the COVID-19 outbreak. many of the measures flooring dealers implemented during the early days remain in effect. Capitol Carpet & Tile, Boynton Beach, Fla., Quinn— “We are Open!” as opposed to 8 p.m.,”

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 8, 2021

By Ken Ryan T he winter storm and cold snap that led to interruptions and closures for flooring retailers and distributors across Texas and Oklahoma is one for the history books. The mid-February Southwest big freeze and weather onslaught won’t soon be forgotten by flooring professionals who lived it. Tracking the toll.

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CUSTOM Insights Blog

MARCH 27, 2015

But for Jed Ballew, project architect with Kinslow, Keith & Todd in Tulsa, Oklahoma, there is still work to do. What are some of the tiled projects that your firm has recently completed? We design a wide variety of projects in the Tulsa metropolitan area, with a focus on education - especially early childhood education centers.

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Focus Floors and Furnishings

OCTOBER 15, 2010

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 29, 2021

By Steven Feldman Riviera Maya, Mexico— Daltile Statements Elite dealers were introduced to what is arguably the most advanced selling system for ceramic tile when this select group of retailers convened here earlier this month for its 10th anniversary summit. Now, I know to look at the product back here on the display.’ Statements 2.0

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 9, 2020

“We just had a dealer in Minnesota who worked with a local bowling alley to install one of our click LVT products and get the space in tip-top shape for its customers.”. based New Dimension Hardwood Floors. Commercial projects were also the saving grace for dealers like Tulsa, Okla.-based Such was the case with Eugene, Ore.-based

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 18, 2021

By Ken Ryan B ehind every successful floor covering retailer is a supplier—or core group of vendors—with a vested interest in the health and vitality of that retailer. TDG is obsessed with its customers’ success and prides itself on providing visually appealing and differentiated products. “We Engineered Floors.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 23, 2021

Home improvement flooring projects continue to spur sales for flooring retailers. By Ken Ryan— Despite a host of potential roadblocks—inflationary pressure, the Delta variant, ongoing supply-chain slowdowns and a lack of installers—flooring retailers, for the most part, continue to report strong business activity through early August.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 12, 2021

While flooring is still largely ruled by well-established legends and pioneers, there’s a new generation in town. Millennials are making a name for themselves in the flooring game, taking the lead on everything from marketing to retail ownership to product design. senior director of marketing, Dal-Tile. Jason O’Krent.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 9, 2022

That digital branding usually equates to healthy advertising initiatives to promote that brand all year long—whether consumers are in the market for new flooring or not. FCNews sat down with several flooring dealers to discuss their relationship with digital branding. O’Krent Floors, San Antonio, Texas. Craig Philips.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Flooring retailers have a compelling story to tell when touting the benefits of waterproof vinyl—and, in some cases, carpet and padding as well. Being waterproof is—and should be—enough to sell the product,” said Rob Elder, co-owner of Hiller’s Flooring America, Rochester, Minn. Every product we sell has a story.

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