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Industry disrupters 2024: Internal factors, external forces upend status quo

Floor Covering News

Shaw, for example, partnered with Nebraska Furniture Mart to launch the Anso Gallery. However, with great power comes great responsibility—a position many “me-too” suppliers failed to uphold, and the category saw an influx of product that didn’t meet high quality, performance and/or environmental standards.

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Changing of the guard at the NFA fall meeting

Floor Covering News

Ian Newton of Flooring 101 was named incoming president; David Chambers of Nebraska Furniture Mart, incoming vice president; Jessica Arscott of Floortrends in Canada, incoming secretary; and Jason Waggoner of ICC Floors, incoming treasurer. Sales are great, but we’re all struggling on the warehouse piece of it. We need to get tighter.

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