Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Houston—Swiff-Train Company has appointed Kay Ward to the newly created position of business unit manager, tile division. This role will encompass all aspects of the company’s tile business, including development, sales and strategic placement and marketing across many company channels.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 8, 2021

Like most businesses in Houston, Roberts Carpet & Fine Floors, with nine area locations, was closed from Sunday, Feb. We know we lost a week of sales and installations.”. He lost seven days of production from the installation technicians and five days of sales because they were unable to open the store. “We

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Floor Covering News

MAY 15, 2023

We want customers to love the style and design of the products. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada MERCHANDISING Show more with less “At Westvalley Carpet & Flooring, we have made a practice of focusing on the quality brands and products that consumers are looking for. And then we will discuss price and performance.” It’s pretty simple.”

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Year-to-date, sales in our two retail stores are up a combined 23% over last year.”. I think things are largely unpredictable but likely to be rocky over the next few months,” said Sam Roberts, owner of Roberts Carpet & Flooring, with multiple locations in the Houston area. “No Products in demand. In Fort Myers, Fla.,

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 17, 2021

After those two months, we were ahead of sales from 2019, so it was business as usual,” said Brian McCarver, owner. “I Gary Touchton, general manager of Venetian Blinds Carpet One Floor & Home in Houston, wakes up every weekday by 3:30 a.m. was thinking about compensating installers. Investing in the right tools/equipment.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 18, 2022

By Megan Salzano-Birch—Las Vegas— Coverings 2022 was a showcase in innovative product design and immersive technology, which is thriving within the ceramic and stone category today despite obvious obstacles. We’ve had great traffic at the show,” said Micah Hand, director of market- ing and product management, Florida Tile. “I

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 3, 2020

Houston— Swiff-Train Company has newly appointed Cole Hood as the company’s director of sales for Swiff-Train Distribution. In this role, Cole will lead the Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi sales teams for all channels.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 14, 2021

As is customary, Mohawk will have a dramatic presence at the big show, in this case showcasing new or newly released products from several of its leading brands. Fellow Texas retailer Sam Roberts, owner of Roberts Carpet & Fine Floors, Houston, will not be in Las Vegas as he is celebrating the birth of his granddaughter.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 29, 2021

Indeed, the NFA showcase is mutually beneficial for both parties as vendors look to create or expand their business while NFA retailers seek niche products to fill out a line or to meet potential customers. While most new products were introduced earlier in the year, this year’s show still provided great value for those in attendance.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 18, 2021

The new year is moving right along, and with it has come new innovations and product lines from top brands across flooring categories. When looking for new rigid core flooring lines to onboard or turning to a proven collection to make the sale, flooring retailers seek out specific qualifications in both the product and supplier.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

B elknap-Haines’ acquisition of Houston-based STC (formerly Swiff-Train) expands the territory of the industry’s top-ranked distributor well beyond its East Coast roots. Moreover, with the STC purchase, Belknap-Haines’ 2022 sales are projected to be $700 million. . Ray Mancini Jr.,

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 15, 2024

gross domestic product (GDP) in recent quarters, but that outlay has not trickled down to the flooring sector to the same degree. Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, meanwhile, brought in more revenue in North America in 2023 than dozens of nations generate in a year, amassing upwards of $1 billion in ticket sales alone for the North American tour.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 20, 2022

Houston, Texas—While OneFlor USA may be just getting started, there is no shortage of commercial flooring experience within its team, according to the company. Andrew Heeter, VP sales. Tim Davis, VP product development and technical. David Kim, CEO. Tiffany Davis, director of marketing. Yoomi Chang, controller.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

By Ken Ryan—N othing—not a global supply chain slowdown, labor shortage or delta variant—has put a crimp in sales for flooring dealers as they enter the fall season with gale-force winds at their backs. Multiple retailers say they are up double digits in 2021 vs. 2020, and for many 2020 was their historical high-water mark for sales.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Specifically, the Footprints Floors team is targeting California, New Jersey, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Virginia, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Maryland for expansion. We’ve pushed out into new product and service offerings, and we’ve done a lot of local networking.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

At the same time, it has also opened up opportunities for floor covering distributors to expand their product offerings while increasing market share. In the SPC market, it’s all about the quality of product, the thicknesses you offer, etc. According to Derek Tung, president and CEO of AFD, product quality is job No.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 21, 2020

Houston—EarthWerks takes the wraps off its new visualizer tool, EarthWerks Visions. With EarthWerks Visions, our customers, distributors and sales team will be able to quickly access all of our flooring collections, and see how they fit into their custom spaces,” said Lindsey Nisbet, director of marketing, EarthWerks.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

By Ken Ryan—N othing—not a global supply chain slowdown, labor shortage or delta variant—has put a crimp in sales for flooring dealers as they enter the fall season with gale-force winds at their backs. Multiple retailers say they are up double digits in 2021 vs. 2020, and for many 2020 was their historical high-water mark for sales.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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. As Lions Floor continues to expand our product offering, we are honored to be partners with Jimmy, Ian and the entire Flooring 101 team.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In 2022, he saw his sales quadruple. In-Home Floors Houston Founded on the idea of quality service and quality products, In-Home Floors specializes in the customer experience—combining the best of the retail showroom and the shop-at-home experience, according to Adrian Rojas, owner/CEO.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 31, 2022

They just raised their sales volume by 25% over the past year with the five increases without installing one additional yard of carpet. Fortunately, we continue to look for great buys of stylish products and keep our costs competitive to offer a great deal to the consumer. Repricing the sales floor is expensive and disruptive.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Mohawk understood the importance of getting its new products in front of customers, especially given it was the biggest launch in its near 150-year history. Seeing new product live is paramount to his business. “I When people go online to look at our product, it doesn’t look like it does live.”. The reason? So, there you go.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 14, 2021

“We are definitely feeling the impact of increases in fuel surcharges and delivery costs,” said Pat Theis, vice president of sales and marketing for Herregan Distributors, a top 20 wholesaler based in Eagan, Minn., Our biggest challenge right now is getting accurate shipping and delivery information on products that come from overseas.”.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 23, 2023

For dealers like Alfred Soyyar, owner of Houston, Texas-based Buffaloe Floors and Up, it was an opportunity that arose out of necessity. Having experience on the installation side, Nelson said he understood the philosophy behind in-home sales. Carney is shifting to mobile-based sales with 75% of his business coming from the road.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 26, 2021

Mohawk said it recognized the need for retailers to see new products for the spring selling season against a backdrop where most other shows had been canceled or postponed. The main difference is that in previous Dallas markets a retailer might bring six or seven people,” said Trey Thames, senior vice president, residential sales, Mohawk.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 13, 2021

When my father, Bruce Caress, and his partners started Redi Carpet in a small building in Houston in 1981, he had a vision. I started at Redi Carpet as a warehouse worker in 1988, eventually working my way into the supply room, customer service and 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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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Lions Floor has taken another big step toward building its national supply chain infrastructure with the recent grand opening of a new, state-of-the-art distribution center in Houston. Our Houston warehouse has officially launched after a soft opening at the end of June,” said Jerry Guo, president. Tailored for Texas. Future plans.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 22, 2022

The sales pro now has the horsepower to simplify the customer journey and to close the deal so they don’t go anywhere else.” . Indeed, features of the program include fewer SKUs, albeit better selling products yielding higher margins. Studies have shown that fewer offerings lead to greater sales volume. “The reason we did 2.0

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 18, 2022

Jerry Guo, president of Lions Floor, previewing samples of some of the company’s latest rigid core products at Surfaces earlier this year. By Reginald Tucker—Some suppliers take a “one-size-fits-all” approach in their product development and marketing efforts. All Lions Floor SPC products are tested in U.S.-based Stocking up.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Production is expected to rise an additional 5% to 1.03 million this year—marking the first year that total annual single-family production has exceeded 1 million since the Great Recession. The problem is a dearth of new and existing homes for sale. The number of existing homes for sale has never been lower,” said Berson.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 2, 2014

. “Sharing” posts are what I call the articles I write that describe my experience with a certain process or product in the context of one of our projects. Other architects, designers, and builders tend to chime in with their experience with this product, maybe some technical advice, cautionary tales, things to consider, etc.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 27, 2023

Whatever we can do, whether it’s speakers, products or opportunity, it’s all about value.” It’s a higher-end product and something we can keep our margins on. It’s also a product that’s not readily available everywhere. They have information on all their products as far as where every ingredient comes from,” Newton said. “So

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Tariffs of up to 25% levied against flooring products sourced from China never had the deleterious effect that many industry observers feared. I think a rollback in Chinese tariffs are likely,” said Sam Roberts, president/owner of Roberts Carpet & Fine Floors, Houston. “I It’s good for our customers and our economy.”.

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