Floor Covering News

AUGUST 25, 2020

RSAs need to be familiar with current design trends in order to have a conversation with the consumer. Travis Bass, EVP of sales, Swiss Krono USA. Did you know that laminate flooring is made from a sustainable, renewable resource? Frank Hargadon, Regional sales manager, Beauflor. Form a connection. Ease of installation.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Coverings 2024’s robust roster of educational offerings will concentrate on the show’s three strategic learning tracks: “Installation & Fabrication,” “Materials & Trends” and “Workforce & Profits.”

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 26, 2023

Commercial flooring rebounded as sales increased 13.1% The lion’s share of sales (approximately 70%) was generated from specified contract while the remainder came from Main Street commercial applications, research shows. flooring sales, according to Floor Covering News research. from roughly $6.5 billion in 2021 to $7.34

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 26, 2022

Coverings 2022 will feature four days in-person with visually appealing tile displays, hands-on branding and business-building strategies and the latest tile trends, technologies and techniques. Live “how-to” classes, trends, solutions and other relevant content will be available on three topic-specific Stages. Coverings Lounge.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 29, 2024

These workshops and regional trainings serve as invaluable opportunities for professionals to stay updated on industry standards, best practices and emerging trends. The NTCA Reference Manual serves as a guiding resource throughout the training.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

We’re excited to offer an even greater variety of on-trend design options with these 13 new colorways.” There’s so much to consider when choosing flooring for commercial projects,” said Samantha Lisi, vice president of commercial sales.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The bigger your sales and marketing teams get, the harder it is to align these efforts. Often called “smarketing,” sales and marketing alignment is critical to ensure that these departments are working in tandem to target the right customer base, create more conversions and drive more sales. Not sure how to get started?

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Spartan Surfaces has the experience and resources to help us accelerate our growth plans. Our entire leadership and sales team is enthusiastic about this new partnership and believes that together we will grow the Parterre commercial business and continue to bring profitable solutions to our valued flooring customers.”

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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. The indoor/outdoor trend continues to boom.

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Floor Covering News

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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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

JULY 8, 2013

The residential remodeling market is also benefiting from the increase in existing home sales and the rise in home prices. The increase in existing home sales stimulates homeowner remodeling projects and the rise in home prices is an incentive for non-movers to invest in their homes and upgrade to stone countertops and flooring.

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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. In the virtual realm, digital tools such as visualizers are often essential to the sale.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 27, 2020

Distributor partners receive the full backing—including marketing and sales resources—to help them excel in their markets. Currently, LG Hausys Flooring’s distributor partners include All South Flooring, CDC Distributors and Yorkshore Sales. The division currently offers five LVT collections and two sheet vinyl collections.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 17, 2023

The newly renovated digital platform, created exclusively for Mohawk retailers, will now home highlights from the event, including engaging digital programs, the latest in innovative technologies and consumer insights and trends. The post Mohawk adds exclusive Edge Summit resources online appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 17, 2023

And to give the retailers an easier way to work and communicate with their manufacturers while working together to bring opportunities to sales.” We’re seeing just franchises of guys out there with mobile showrooms and selling at that point of sale in a customer’s home, which is a big [change]. Mobile showrooms are big now,” Aya noted.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 4, 2023

This facility allows us to be more closely connected to our customers, servicing their product needs faster while also reducing transportation resource requirements for a more sustainable operation. Local production also means we are able to quickly meet changing trends and new style demands. based manufacturing facilities.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This year’s finalists included high-end carpet collections that employ new technology to enhance the visuals and on-trend hardwood, laminate and SPC styles. The five-color palette for Bespoke is light and airy and perfectly on trend with the top selling hardwood stain colors.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

I would probably say the market’s going to be, at best, flat, maybe even a little bit down,” said Dick Quinlan, VP of sales and marketing, Wellmade. There’s still a lot of pricing mechanization going on, and as a result I think you’re going to see dollar sales will probably be down. Units might be flat.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 26, 2023

Commercial flooring rebounded as sales increased 13.1% The lion’s share of sales (approximately 70%) was generated from specified contract while the remainder came from Main Street commercial applications, research shows. flooring sales, according to Floor Covering News research. from roughly $6.5 billion in 2021 to $7.34

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Known for its small-size ceramic products for manufacturers, distributors, architects and other design professionals, Decocer currently sells throughout the United States, which is the company’s primary client and accounts for more than 50% of sales. In five years’ time, company executives intend to grow the U.S. fan base. “As

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Chicago—The North American Association of Flooring Covering Distributors (NAFCD) and the North American Building Material Distribution Association (NBMDA) said they have further strengthened their long-time partnership during the COVID-19 pandemic to bring forth resources and programs to meet the specific needs of the distribution channel.

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Diary of a Tile Addict

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

metres of tiles, achieving total sales of Euro 45.3 Raw material consumption is minimised by cutting waste and turning it into usable resources. Today the company sells to around 60 countries, with export sales representing more than 60% of turnover. In 2022, Recer produced around 5 million sq. Twenties by Recer.

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Diary of a Tile Addict

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

metres of tiles, achieving total sales of Euro 45.3 Raw material consumption is minimised by cutting waste and turning it into usable resources. Today the company sells to around 60 countries, with export sales representing more than 60% of turnover. In 2022, Recer produced around 5 million sq. Twenties by Recer.

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Architectural Ceramics

APRIL 26, 2018

With tools for homeowners, architects, contractors and distributors (that’s us) alike, Laticrete is a great resource for tile installation products and learning. Another resource for tile products and continuing education, is Schluter Systems. We know what’s trending in bathroom tile now, but where do we see it going?

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 25, 2023

Here are four trends shaping the small business landscape to be aware of—and take advantage of—as you implement your plans throughout the year: 1. Accepting new forms of cashless or peer-to-peer (P2P) payments, such as Zelle, at your business’ point of sale.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

What’s trending Karndean unveiled a variety of new designs at the show, including updates to its Opus collection, which is finding a home with diversifying specialty retailers. It seemed for a few years that trending design in resilient flooring had somewhat stagnated. For Novalis, the warm wood trend is also taking off.

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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 Look this way.

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Diary of a Tile Addict

MAY 24, 2018

Years of technical know how, cutting-edge trend analysis and in-house creative expertise suddenly burst forth in an eclectic mix of on-trend designs. A year later this was reinforced by opening a sister company, Wow USA, in Virginia to manage sales and distribution of bespoke products and the Wow brand. Petal by Wow.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 21, 2020

Chicago—The North American Association of Floor Covering Distributors (NAFCD) and the North American Building Material Distribution Association (NBMDA) have further strengthened their long-time partnership during the COVID-19 pandemic to bring forth resources and programs to meet the specific needs of the distribution channel.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

senior vice president of sales, Dal-Tile. In our 75 th year, we are committed to maximizing all our resources and attributes to best serve our customers in 2023. It is expected that this trend will continue, especially if demand declines due to economic conditions. Scott Maslowski. president, MSI.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 10, 2020

Many economists expect that trend to carry over into 2020. Looking ahead, we’re optimistic and anticipate low single-digit growth in 2020, with most of the major players that work with our teams anticipating solid growth,” said Larry Brookshire, Mohawk’s vice president builder and multifamily sales operations.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 12, 2023

According to Patrick Warren, vice president of residential sales, dealer and showrooms, Daltile’s residential remodel business was up almost double digits in 2022, but Daltile Statements dealers outpaced that growth. “As At the same time, Daltile has built the merchandising so the retail sales associate can close that sale.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 13, 2024

This was the start of a 35-year passion for sales and marketing. While Brian has a deep understanding of how sales and marketing fuel a business, he also understands that culture and people are the things that feed long-term growth. Lauren’s success goes beyond a passion for residential interiors and understanding emerging trends.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 6, 2021

She was—and continues to be—on the frontline of customer engagements, leveraging flooring industry knowledge with her sales skills. She has created and implemented training programs for independent flooring retailers, distributors, manufacturers and sales reps for the past 50 years, developing programs to help grow their businesses.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

JANUARY 2, 2013

‘s Donato Pompo, citing findings from Catalina Research, ceramic tile is leading the floor covering sales recovery, as tile manufacturers leverage the rebound in existing home sales and housing starts. ceramic tile sales are estimated to have grown by 9% in dollars and 9.2% floor coverings manufacturer dollar sales and 12.9%

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 1, 2021

They have our back; they do things right; they make life easy; they incentivize our sales; they don’t make sudden changes without telling us; they are available by phone all day long; and they appreciate our business.”. residential national sales manager, Forbo.

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Diary of a Tile Addict

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The stracciatella-effect tile trend has already outlasted most pundits predictions, but when genuine terrazzo expertise is on show, even the most hard-nosed specifier cannot help but be impressed. Napper uses unwanted and unused resources to replace environmentally damaging ones. Andrews/Quiligotti flying the flag for real terrazzo.

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