Floor Covering News

MARCH 21, 2022

Even before Russia invaded Ukraine, oil and gas prices were on the rise as demand for fuel oil and other energy products outstripped tight global supplies. While the Stainmaster sale was jolting—and ticked off many dealers initially—the vast majority who did business with Stainmaster seized the opportunity to market other fiber systems.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 4, 2022

Last year EF had a record year in terms of sales. If you’re Shaw Industries, spending a billion dollars when you were nylon to put it into polyester and then your sales are going to go down after you do that—well, that’s a hard sell to Warren Buffet. That works fine, but how often are you going to repeat that sale?

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 14, 2022

While a number of factors have pushed oil prices above $125 a barrel, exacerbated by the Russia-Ukraine conflict (the United Nations says not to call it a war; sheesh!), Many people worry about recession because the stock market has been “jittery” during the Russia-Ukraine war. So you have to figure out a strategy for raising prices.”.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 8, 2022

The Russia/Ukraine conflict continues to put pressure on shipments from the rest of world. This put distribution in a warehousing crunch,” said Dave White, vice president of sales and marketing for Tri-West. There remains a difference between product from China/Vietnam and rest of world.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 26, 2023

Still, flooring once again was able to continue its positive trajectory in dollar sales, which it has done every year since the Great Recession of 2008-09 except for the pandemic-impacted 2020. With that said, unit sales remain at its fourth-highest level ever. Russia is the largest exporter of fossil fuels in the world.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 5, 2022

The resurgent laminate flooring category continued on its upward trajectory in 2021 as sales reached $1.304 billion, FCNews research shows. That $1.304 billion also represents the highest level of laminate sales seen since 2006. In terms of sales, laminate represented just 4.9% in 2016; and 6.6% in 2011, FCNews research shows.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 6, 2022

Retail sales trends. One of the many leading indicators ITR Economics examines in its forecasting models is retail sales trends. Retail sales are, of course, going to slow down,” Beaulieu said, citing the absence of stimulus funding that was injected into the U.S. In fact, retail sales are doing well in many parts of the world.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

As a result, hardwood flooring suppliers across the globe find themselves scrambling to get their hands on alternative materials as Russia and Ukraine—the primary exporters of birch plywood cores—have effectively vanished from the supply chain.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 13, 2022

This is the first year we will do more OEM business than we’ll do with the Indusparquet brand,” said Jodie Doyle, vice president of sales and marketing. That’s because most of the plywood manufacturers were not in Russia; they were in the Ukraine because of lower labor costs, and many factories were completely destroyed.”.

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Kitchen and Residential Design

MARCH 11, 2012

He and his family barely escaped Russia with their clothes on their backs. It do not get the store at all, it is like a garage sale or flea market with a storefront. Rothko was a Russian emigre whose family fled the last gasps of the Czarist pograms as the Bolsheviks conducted a bloody coup over the Romanov autocracy.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 1, 2022

T he comeback that was predicted in 2020 after ceramic flooring sales experienced its first downward trajectory in several years was right on point as 2021 saw vast improvement across the board. increase in dollar sales to $3.077 billion in 2021 (flooring only) vs. $2.844 billion in 2020. FCNews research shows ceramic experienced an 8.2%

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Sales of newly built single-family homes in January fell 4.5% Higher mortgage rates will slow home buying demand over the course of 2022 and the Russia-Ukraine crisis will add short-term volatility to the bond market.”. A new home sale occurs when a sales contract is signed or a deposit is accepted. Washington, D.C.—Sales

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 29, 2022

“This is the second year in a row that we’ve been to NWFA,” said Chris King, senior vice president of sales and marketing at AHF. “We We saw some good traffic, especially the first day,” said Wade Bondrowski, director of sales USA, Mercier Wood Flooring. Combined, Russia and Ukraine are the largest exporters of hardwood in the world.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 3, 2022

These include rising inflation , higher raw materials pricing amid inconsistent availability and, now, a war in Ukraine that has threatened the supply of so many goods and services, including Russia-sourced birch lumber that goes into the core layer of many engineered hardwood flooring products sold globally today.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

JUNE 13, 2012

I was director of marketing for a point of sale advertising agency. My client is Russian, and in Russia they really appreciate tile. This fireplace brought back [to her] her lifestyle of who she was as she grew up in Russia. TD: How did you get started with tile? That was an interesting journey. But I do quirky things.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Russia and Ukraine continued to clash; Southwind’s new president is named Drew Hash. Natural disasters impacted sales Guys became gals, females now males. Crime and corruption dulled some cities’ pull, Leaving too many buildings more empty than full. Soon we would see a price drop in oil As Indusparquet promoted Jodie Doyle.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 3, 2023

The Baltic birch plywood challenge put stress on everyone from an availability, cost and communication point of view,” said Brad Williams, vice president of sales and marketing, Mirage. At Mercier we are still using Baltic birch, although we were able to source it outside of Russia,” said Wade Bondrowski, director of U.S.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 18, 2024

Such is the case with recent events like the Israeli/Hamas War as well as the lingering conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Take, for example, the Ukraine-Russia war, which has had significant ramifications on the global economy, affecting various sectors and regions around the world. Statistics reflect this sentiment: U.S.

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