Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Year-to-date, sales in our two retail stores are up a combined 23% over last year.”. Phil Koufidakis, president of Baker Bros, with multiple stores in Phoenix metro, hedged his. We think the winter residents from up north will be happy to get back down here, and with that we expect strong sales,” he said. Products in demand.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The top suppliers, many floor covering retailers agree, are the ones that help specialty retailers maintain healthy profit margins—especially in an extremely competitive environment inundated with so many me-too products jockeying for market share. They stand behind their products, they don’t play games with us.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 29, 2021

Patrick Warren, vice president of residential sales, put it in perspective: “When you’re shopping within the 2.0 Now, I know to look at the product back here on the display.’ layout is organized in such a fashion as to help RSAs separate products according to tiers. The leads and the showroom are working together in unison.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

From the abundance of news products, tools and merchandisers on the show floor—to the bevy of educational sessions in the meeting rooms—there were more than enough enticements to get retailers to make the trip. “The Exhibitors’ spaces were packed with opportunities to demo and touch and feel products.

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Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

JULY 27, 2017

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 8, 2022

Karndean Designflooring is now active on Source digital materials library, an online product catalog designed for commercial construction professionals that provides simple and transparent procurement. Export, Pa.— The Source digital materials library began in Portland, Ore. The Source digital materials library began in Portland, Ore.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Coming up with just the right combination of merchandising displays, installed flooring, product placement, lighting and even open space can be a challenge, especially for floor covering dealers with limited showroom space. Arizona Hardwood Floor Supply Phoenix Bring the outside in.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 18, 2023

Phoenix—The tone for the CCA Global winter convention 2023 here was set the moment CEO, Rick Bennet, walked on stage to start the meeting and declared: “I’m not one for platitudes but we are embarking on the greatest transformation in our history.”. My salespeople embraced it because it was getting them the sale quicker.

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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

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whether you work in retail, auto sales or a B2B business you’ll have far more success if you’re familiar with the characteristics of your target buyer and thoroughly qualify each prospect against that matrix. And regardless of what industry you’re in or what type of organizations you sell into, a few sales axioms hold.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 14, 2021

with multiple locations in the Phoenix metro area, added, “We feel there will be more opportunity to feature great-looking products from other fiber systems. Stainmaster products became harder to come by over the last several years—it was a struggle to find enough.”. Phil Koufidakis, president of Baker Bros.,

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Floor Covering News

MAY 4, 2021

It will be an exciting time of change and opportunity, with new concepts to consider and new products to explore.”. As a group, they are working collectively with their mill partners to research plans to deliver product to NFA showrooms. “We which has supported the Stainmaster brand for 35 years. “It

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 29, 2021

Our sales that year were probably between $30 and $40 million.”. Today, Republic sells a little more than 300 SKUs, half of which is SPC at 60% of sales, with laminate about 25%-30% of sales and wood accounting for the remainder. 1; product is No. What good is it if you only have product? Logistics is No.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

JANUARY 16, 2012

percent, and existing home sales grew by 17.8 It’s also been reported that floor covering store sales have increased as well. What may be driving home sales increases, Pompo adds, is consumers’ belief that depreciation has finally left home prices at levels they can afford. They were down 7.9 They were down 7.9 he observes.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 17, 2021

And carpet suffered mightily before rising like the mythical Phoenix in the second half of the year. When the dust cleared and all the numbers were counted, total industry sales fell just short of 2019’s numbers at $22.951 billion, a decline of 0.5%. Note: These numbers are in wholesale dollars reflecting the first point of sale.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 14, 2020

Phoenix, Ariz.—Quality “Our customers regularly search for quality products that look great and match design requirements,” added Braica. Grand Selection Origin in Sunset. Quality Wood Floors released its newest hard surface flooring collection by Switzerland-based manufacturer KronoSwiss.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 3, 2023

I’m completely not buying into the recession thing,” said Phil Koufidakis, president of Baker Bros, with six locations in the Phoenix market. As he put it, “We’ll continue to advertise and promote our business aggressively and continue to train our RSA’s how to sell during a difficult sales environment. Or as Baker Bros.’

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 8, 2022

The good news is improvement in raw material availability—in part due to a lessening of demand and greater reliance on East Coast ports—has dramatically reduced production times by as much as five months. Although product flow has significantly improved, we are definitely not out of the woods yet,” Raj Shah, president of MSI, told FCNews.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 15, 2021

By Ken Ryan Some flooring retailers have referred to 2021 as the “best/worst year ever”—a record sales campaign achieved despite myriad challenges that hamstrung many dealers, leading to record back logs. Despite his comments, Phillips’ businesses achieved record sales in 2021. After that, sales came back with a fury. “It

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 22, 2021

Due to extensive congestion in the ports, reports show product shipments may be delayed for several more weeks to come. The disruption has the potential to impact flooring retailers well into 2021 as they scramble to fill customer needs at a time of strong sales activity. FlorStar Sales, based in Romeoville, Ill.,

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Floor Covering News

MAY 17, 2022

By Reginald Tucker—After several years of losing market share to wood-look products, wood flooring is regaining momentum. Dogwood from Bruce Hardwood Floors was recently named one of the ‘30 Most Innovative Products for 2022,’ presented by Dotdash Meredith’s Beautiful Kitchens & Baths. For 2022, the group expects the U.S.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 3, 2020

with multiple locations in Phoenix, agreed, adding, “Over the short term, extending consumer finance options would be a good idea. It would be very helpful to us if manufacturers offered more online courses and web-based product knowledge training sessions. Phil Koufidakis, owner of Baker Bros., Needs run the gamut.

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Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

MAY 25, 2018

in Austin, TX and Phoenix, AZ $208.49 You can also find an expert installation price quote on many of the product-for-sale pages. Enter your zip code, check off what you may need and you’ll get an instant price. For example, a handyman to work inside your home for two hours with a step ladder costs: $210.99

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Steve Kleinhans, Big D Floor Covering Supplies, Phoenix. We are blessed to offer great products from great vendor partners and have outstanding people at FlorStar who provide a host of needed services. Scott Rozmus, FlorStar Sales, Romeoville, Ill. I believe our future looks very bright.” .

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Adam Ward, senior product director, laminate and wood at Mohawk, previews additions to the company’s RevWood Plus collection. We’ve enhanced the product by treating the bevels and the locking joints along with some other proprietary treatments,” he told FCNews. Jason O’Krent, director of sales at O’Krent’s in San Antonio, agreed.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Robert Dietz, chief economist for the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), noted that historically low interest rates, a pivot for consumer preferences toward housing and a measurable suburban shift for location decisions lifted home sales, home building and remodeling. Production is expected to rise an additional 5% to 1.03

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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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StoneDimensions

MAY 21, 2015

Danielle Hale, director of housing statistics for the National Association of Realtors, told the paper this: “These areas probably had more building and sales and home activity in general during the periods of peak values. years; Phoenix-Scottsdale, AZ. ” In the February report, single-family housing production fell 14.9

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 2, 2020

The majority of retailers reached by FCNews s aid despite tariff increases of up to 25%, segments like rigid core and WPC continue to generate double-digit sales increases. With regard to flooring, products that have been tariffed at the 25% rate will continue to be taxed at that rate, except click LVT, which is under an exemption until Aug.

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