Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

By Megan Salzano—W ith the pandemic shaking up product launch strategies, the fall selling season has become a key product launch phase for many suppliers. While Surfaces remains the main stage for most manufacturers, new products are hitting the streets—and dealer showrooms—this fall that have never been seen before.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 26, 2024

“The unveiling of the CID Award winners remains a fan-favorite event at Coverings year after year,” said Jenn Heinold, president of Taffy Event Strategies, the show management company for Coverings. Residential Ceramic Tile Design—kitchen Smart Kitchen Moderno Porcelain Works Phoenix Scottsdale, Ariz.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

It’s been great; we’ve been swamped,” said Kathy Green, director of brand strategy and communications at Emser. “We Daltile, Marazzi, AO Daltile, Marazzi and AO launched new products that cater to five themes driving home design today: Elevate Life, Dreamscape, Seize The Day, Essential Luxury and Tender Living.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Consumers are spending more money on creating outdoor oases using products like Daltile’s My Stone Moon collection, seen here. . There is a big difference between a concrete floor that resembles your driveway and a calacatta marble paver that matches the floor of your kitchen or great room. MSI’s Arterra Porcelain Pavers.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 3, 2022

“The shows that have staged in the first quarter that are in the construction and building industry have had a real excitement and energy about them,” Jennifer Hoff, president of Taffy Event Strategies, the event planning company for Coverings, told FCNews. People are back to doing business; they are networking,” Hoff added.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 7, 2021

In order to take advantage of the unprecedented demand, however, those dealers need to offer up products that speak to the evolving needs of their customer base. Dal-Tile’s one-two punch of tile innovation technology and leading style and design is what powers its product development and ongoing dealer opportunities. The ‘Power 5’.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The awards program, now in its 11th year, has become the benchmark for new product excellence and booth design at the industry’s premier trade show. The winners, announced on the show floor, are as follows: Innovation: AHF Products. AHF Products. With this strategy everyone wins. Style & Design: Daltile. Innovation.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 15, 2021

I feel, as one of the first handful of major trade shows to take place, Coverings is knocking it out of the park,” Jennifer Hoff, president of Taffy Event Strategies, the event planning company for Coverings, told FCNews at the show. “At close to 10,000 attendees showed up to view the latest and greatest trending tiles. “I

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 17, 2023

Trendy new products and technologies; strategic product line extensions; a revamped website and a refreshed corporate logo to boot. The goal, according to the company, is to provide its retail partners with timely, on-trend products as well as the necessary tools that RSAs can leverage to sell more effectively and profitably.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

And would enough new product make it through supply chain bottlenecks, cost challenges and general pandemic-related issues to provide a positive outcome for dealers? When it comes to the resilient category in particular, it was clear it’s no longer about getting products to market first in an effort to be seen in a crowded category.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Often the challenge is laid at the feet of industry shortcomings such as labor and product costs; however, there’s a much simpler explanation that once remedied could potentially boost the sales potential for flooring dealers big and small: in-store merchandising. Seeing is believing. Pulling it off.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 9, 2021

FCNews ’ third annual “Industry Disrupters” issue features innovative players and thinkers who are pushing the envelope in terms of product innovations, technological breakthroughs or simply radical new ways of doing business. Domestic Production. Below are this year’s Industry Disruptors. The mother of all disruptors .

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