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TISE 2025 featured 800-plus global flooring brands in Las Vegas, unveiling trends in luxury vinyl, WPC, laminate and high-end carpet. Despite a slight dip in attendance, innovation and market optimism stood out.
Editor Jennifer Bardoner explores the demand for senior living, which is rising as Baby Boomers age. Flooring in senior housing environments must support wellness, safety and aesthetics, but affordability and design challenges remain.
The flooring industry is facing a growing installer shortage, but organizations like FCEF, CFI, and NWFA are boosting recruitment, training and certification. Challenges remain, including pay gaps, costs and navigating diverse education pathways.
Publisher Kemp Harr takes a look at how tariffs, inflation and weak economic data continue to pressure flooring demand. Also, Fuse draws 550 to its annual meeting, where Thomas Trissl announced his departure as Sika takes over HPS Schönox.
Publisher Kemp Harr sits down with Winn Everhart, Tarkett North America’s CEO, to talk about his global experience from Coca-Cola and Whirlpool and how a focus on trust, teamwork and strategy will lead the company into its next chapter.
Breton Terrace at Holland Home underwent a major renovation led by SKP Design to modernize spaces and improve resident comfort. Using Tarkett flooring, the project emphasized nature-inspired design, accessibility, and community-focused enhancements.
Mike Toste turned his sales talent into a growing flooring retail business by developing strong systems and prioritizing people, process and product. With four locations now thriving, he's focused on expansion and building a sustainable team.
Contributing editor Sam Allman explores “people power”—influence rooted in character, not title. Through self-awareness, reframing thoughts and shifting paradigms, individuals can overcome limiting beliefs and lead more purposeful, empowered lives.
Contributing editor Dave Stafford shares memorable mishaps from the flooring world, from magic marker carpet fixes and a glue-covered lawyer, to upside-down tile installs and a $3,000 shortcut that led to a $1.2 million disaster.
Shaw Contract’s Reesie Duncan, Mohawk Group’s Royce Epstein and The Dixie Group’s Vickie Gilstrap and Nathan Hammett look at color trends for 2025 and explain how color plays a strategic role, mirroring our sentiments and shaping our experience.