Visual, Insightful, Trusted Resource
Enjoy the latest insights and analysis from our print edition. You can subscribe or order back issues here. Contact us if you need information on reprints.
Editor Jessica Chevalier profiles Floors for Living, a four-year-old Texas based retailer with 20 locations. President Kurt Duitsman credits a focus on customer service, quality installation and a sophisticated website for the firm's rapid rise.
Contributing editor Sam Allman writes about the essential role of trustworthiness in the retail environment, and he also offers his take on the principles of ethics: respect, service, justice, honesty and community.
Contributing editor Dave Stafford offers a blueprint for how to go about finding the manufacturers that provide the best fit for one's business, covering niche identification, research and investigation, pricing issues, making a deal and more.
Krista Easterly offers up her current favorite flooring products, comprising a range of porcelains, like Vision Stone's concrete-look planks in herringbone installations, and printed tiles with multiple patterns, like Unica's Origia porcelain tile.
Executive editor Darius Helm, with statistics from Market Insights, presents an overview of the domestic commercial flooring market, including an update on flooring category shares and a report on the state of the various commercial sectors.
Editor Jessica Chevalier takes a look back at the commercial operations of 100-year-old Mannington, with comments from chairman Keith Campbell and other leaders of the privately held manufacturer, along with photos spanning the century.
Senior editor Calista Sprague takes a close look at flooring made from rapidly renewable resources, examining their environmental attributes from all angles, with input from flooring manufacturers including US Floors, WE Cork and Forbo.
FloorExpo's Jay Smith moderates a panel—Mike James of Metro Carpets, Jim Gunckel of Residential Design Services and Steve Chesin of Carpets N More—discussing market conditions, challenges, trends and the Millennial clientele.
Editor Jessica Chevalier reports on what it takes to be successful in digital marketing, including how to navigate the various social media platforms, with a section from Jay Flynn from Creating Your Space on generating and managing online reviews.
Executive editor Darius Helm reviews this year's hardwood show, held in Charlotte, North Carolina, including trends and highlights from Armstrong, Mannington, Mullican, American OEM, Mirage, Lauzon, Harris Wood, Mercier, Somerset, Maxwell and more.