Floor Covering News

MARCH 21, 2023

This represents a major investment in the company’s growth strategy. “The new facility allows us to deliver every solution for all customers’ tile needs, and positions us for continued growth in years ahead,” said Mike Ward, Portobello America’s vice president of sales.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 2, 2023

For those who can tackle the category at the retail level, benefits abound—higher profit margins and ticket sales as well as forging a reputation for style and design, to name a few. The dealer who actively sells ceramic tile is invariably making a higher ticket sale, which will add to overall revenue growth and profitability for the dealer.”

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Floor Covering News

JULY 5, 2022

Preliminary FCNews research shows the commercial flooring market totaled $6.488 billion in sales in 2021, an uptick of 6% over 2020. In commercial, hard surfaces surpassed carpet for the second straight year with hard surface sales reaching $3.5 of hard surface commercial sales and is the fastest growing category.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Las Vegas— The International Surfaces Event has become a smaller player in the world of ceramic and porcelain tile of late—most likely due to the fact that Coverings is held a mere two months later. Daltile’s Shop by Look wall features palette boards with QR codes to help guide consumers through the sale.

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Diary of a Tile Addict

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Today it is a medium sized producer of porcelain tiles, and ceramic wall tiles, offering home owners and designers a wide range of contemporary solutions with its wide and diversified product portfolio. metres of tiles, achieving total sales of Euro 45.3 The other two main product categories are porcelain tiles, and SIB.

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Diary of a Tile Addict

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Today it is a medium sized producer of porcelain tiles, and ceramic wall tiles, offering home owners and designers a wide range of contemporary solutions with its wide and diversified product portfolio. metres of tiles, achieving total sales of Euro 45.3 The other two main product categories are porcelain tiles, and SIB.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

“Exterior projects are still on the rise because during their time at home, people rediscovered their home’s exterior spaces and the reinvigorated practice of enjoying time together outside,” Patrick Warren, vice president of residential sales, dealer and showrooms, Dal-Tile Corp., MSI’s Arterra Porcelain Pavers. told FCNews.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

ceramic market will be down mid-single digits in sales and high single digitals in volume when the calendar flips to 2024. It was, however, a sizeable 23% increase in sales from 2020’s $2.844 billion when the category experienced its first decline since 2009 amid the Great Recession. Category experts agree the U.S. year-to-date.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

He joined the company in 1977 and held a variety of diverse positions in sales, manufacturing and finance. In 2005, he was promoted to director of laminate business and in 2006 he was named director of porcelain tile business. LeGate joined Mannington Commercial in 2009 as a sales analyst.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 1, 2023

“Leading up to the event, and as recent as [Tuesday] night, we have been trending 20% ahead on attendance versus our 2019 show—our benchmark— throughout the campaign,” Jenn Heinold, president of Taffy Event Strategies, the show management company for Coverings, told Floor Covering News. “So I think the vibe is ‘OK, we’re back, we’re 100%.’

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 16, 2022

By Megan Salzano-Birch—T he ceramic category can be a difficult nut to crack for the dealer community, but it’s one that should be embraced as the ongoing potential for record-breaking sales continues into 2022. Merchandising strategies. In the virtual realm, digital tools such as visualizers are often essential to the sale.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 3, 2021

By Megan Salzano I f you haven’t implemented a digital strategy to help generate more sales, you’re already behind the curve. Ceramic and porcelain tile are aspirational products that rely heavily on home and fashion trends. Today, companies need an omni-channel strategy to meet the needs of retailers and their customers.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 2, 2022

Newly released data from Informa shows the audience consisted of 68% executive management roles, 74% companies with sales volume over $1 million annually and 82% active buyers. Daltile’s new Sapphire Status porcelain large format tile caught the eye of judges and won multiple awards.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

JANUARY 8, 2015

One of our core strategies has been to marry the key strengths of Chinese manufacturing practices with top european machinery and operations,” says Mike Ward, VP of Sales for Bellavita, “achieving this certification goes a long way towards proving that Bellavita is a leader not just among Chinese manufacturers but on a global scale.

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JUNE 13, 2022

billion commercial flooring business, rebounded in 2021 as sales were relatively flat after posting a double-digit falloff the prior year. “I Commercial sales ranged from $3 to $3.5 A little more than half of the volume is from specified contract while dollar sales are more evenly split with Main Street applications.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 7, 2021

“We have an incredible breadth of product and capabilities and we’re ready to focus in on the things that make a difference to both the consumer—whoever that end user is for the dealer—and our retail partners,” Patrick Warren, vice president, residential sales, dealer and showrooms, Dal-Tile Corporation, told FCNews. “We

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 3, 2023

At launch, more than 200 flooring retailers agreed to take on the Premier Flooring Center, which emphasizes a best/better/good selling strategy with nylon 6,6 being the “best,” nylon 6 the “better” and polyester the “good.”. For retail sales associates, PFC is intended to be the easiest way to sell flooring—with confidence and simplicity.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 5, 2020

Flooring retailers, including those looking to gain back lost dollars from the growing popularity of vinyl products, would do well to turn to tile and stone, which offers high dollar sales and high margins, according to suppliers at The International Surface Event (TISE) held in Las Vegas earlier this year. “We Boosting retail sales.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

By Megan Salzano I f you haven’t implemented a digital strategy to help generate more sales, you’re already behind the curve. Ceramic and porcelain tile are aspirational products that rely heavily on home and fashion trends. Today, companies need an omni-channel strategy to meet the needs of retailers and their customers.

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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 The company also continued to highlight its “Shop By Look” wall, which features QR codes to help guide consumers through the sale. While the main event for tile each year is Coverings, being held in Orlando, Fla.,

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Floor Covering News

MAY 25, 2021

FCNews research shows commercial flooring revenues (including specified business as well as Main Street sales) totaled $6.134 billion last year—a falloff of 11.1% The corporate market took the biggest hit in 2020 as its share fell from 42% of sales in 2019 to approximately 38% last year. compared to 2019. in 2019 to 4.9%

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

AUGUST 27, 2013

Florida Tile has announced two significant changes to its sales and marketing organization due to recent growth in it independent and commercial divisions. Massimo Barbari, previously Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Florida Tile, has been promoted to Product Development of Foreign Panariagroup Brands.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

operation of the Italian Iris Ceramica Group and a prominent manufacturer of high-tech porcelain and stoneware solutions, is celebrating its 20th anniversary with new investments and a strategic rebranding. Chicago—Stonepeak, the U.S.

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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.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 12, 2021

Thanks to advancements in printing and screening technologies, for example, ceramic and porcelain products can be made to look like wood. We don’t consider them hardwood floors or to be in the hardwood segment,” said Brad Williams, vice president of sales and marketing for Boa-Franc, maker of the Mirage brand of wood flooring.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Dogwood is an opportunity to bring consumers squarely back into the hardwood category while giving our channel partners an opportunity to grow their sales and margins,” Carson explained. For us, it’s validation for a kind of strategy that we are getting back to in residential hard surface, to what Mannington is known for with a little nuance.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 18, 2022

“The attendees and the exhibitors —and the world in general—are getting back to business, and face-to-face is really important in that engagement,” Jennifer Hoff, president of Taffy Event Strategies, the event planning company for Coverings, told FCNews. “I I think people are excited to finally be out and about and able to get things done.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 9, 2021

RevoTile is genuine porcelain tile offered in 26 marble, wood, stone and concrete looks. What has changed, however, is its strategy—and the arsenal of new tools the company is building to accomplish it with. The new strategy is anything but ordinary. No wait time and no acclimation is required. More committed than ever.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Our customers are very glad Shaw Floors is back at Surfaces,” said Steve Sieracki, senior vice president of residential sales. “We Traditional porcelain tile is beautiful, but it’s very hard and very cold and you have grout to worry about. It’s the next obvious evolution. It’s an emerging category in vinyl—the last frontier.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2012

“Greater visibility means more website traffic, and more website traffic means more sales. Your blog will dramatically increase your visibility on Google, which will lead directly to more traffic and more sales on your website.”. A similar blogging strategy is at work at East Coast Tile. That’s something we all want!”

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