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Natural stone 101: Understanding the basics

Floor Covering News

Natural stone can be a hard product category for some retailers to get into. The product is high-end in nature, due to several factors. Successfully selling natural stone products has some major advantages, too, including higher profit margins and ticket sales for the retail owner.

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Ceramic: State of the Industry 2022

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According to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), elevated mortgage rates, high construction costs and weakening demand stemming from deteriorating affordability conditions continue to act as a drag on single-family housing production. Overall housing starts decreased 4.2% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.43

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Housing Harley Davidson

Diary of a Tile Addict

Following the recent war of words with Donald Trump after the Wisconsin-based American motorcycle company Harley-Davidson announced that it was moving some of its production overseas to avoid tariffs on bikes sold in the European Union, here’s a calmer tale from this iconic brand. The new Harley-Davidson showroom in Manchester, England.

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The Industry Disrupters of 2020

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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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Builder—State of the industry: Construction activity, hard surfaces will fuel demand in 2020

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Meanwhile, higher pricing due to tariffs stand to impact pricing on building materials and interior decorating products such as flooring. “As As an alternative, we offer unique domestic products that were developed specifically for builder, property management and multi-family environments,” Cole said.

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Tile, Twitter and Facebook: Open for Business

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It’s hard to say what percentage of business owners use Twitter and Facebook -published surveys vary wildly from one third or less of all businesses to two thirds or more. special discounts on products and services. we offer eco-friendly products. Whatever the true numbers today, they are likely to be higher tomorrow.

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