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Industry associations ramp up training efforts

Floor Covering News

Organizations across the industry are updating their training and educational programs to aid installers, sales representatives and other flooring professionals in perfecting their craft. New York; and more. We teach them the standards, then we test them.”. In addition to its classes, CTEF also has a certification program.

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Rick Cain elevated to president of Fabulous Floors

Floor Covering News

Carrollton, Texas—Fabulous Floors has named Rick Cain—formerly vice president of sales—to president of the company. In his previous role, Cain led Fabulous Floors’ expansion efforts in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Florida, Massachusetts, Georgia, New York, Virginia, California and Oregon.

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Obituary: Marvin Youngerman, 93

Floor Covering News

Youngerman’s floor covering career spanned well over 50 years before retiring as vice president of sales for Columbus Mills. His first sales position was with Colonial Distributors in Brooklyn, N.Y. After learning his craft, he joined the Monarch division of Barwick Carpet Mills covering the New York metro area.

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Top Quality Black Friday Sales: Get Your Home Ready For the Holidays!

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

As a result, we gathered a list of 20 top quality Black Friday Home Sales to make your holiday decorating task a breeze. The links below will take you further to original online shops, with lovely home products on sale for this week’s Thanksgiving and Black Friday to next week’s Cyber Monday. Lulu & Georgia.

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Looking back: Ralph Boe

Floor Covering News

Retailers were spread all over the place and very small; there was no one who really had the dominance from a sales standpoint. There was New York Carpet World, Carpetland USA and Carpeteria. The fact that we were all in the same part of northwest Georgia made us very, very competitive against one another, which allowed the U.S.

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Exclusive: One on one with ‘Mr.’ Shaw

Floor Covering News

Last year EF had a record year in terms of sales. People moving from big cities into Florida and Georgia and Texas? If you’re Shaw Industries, spending a billion dollars when you were nylon to put it into polyester and then your sales are going to go down after you do that—well, that’s a hard sell to Warren Buffet.

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The ‘new’ XGS has bold ambitions

Floor Covering News

FCNews publisher/editorial director, Steve Feldman, recently sat down with John McGill, SVP of sales and customer service, and Kayleigh Reeves, director, marketing and brand experience, to discuss XGS’ ongoing efforts in the flooring industry. For example, Steve’s Carpet World in New York has one XGS truck showing up.