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Editor Jessica Chevalier profiles Carpet Exchange, a retailer with 18 Colorado stores and one in Wyoming. Co-founder Bruce Odette started as an installer in the 1980s, quickly turned to sales and then management, before buying over a dozen locations.
Contributing editor Sam Allman discusses customer loyalty and commitment, and the development of that trust, and also delves into the various ways trust and loyalty can fall short.
Contributing editor Dave Stafford offers extensive insights drawn from personal anecdotes about the various ways contractors can lose a project, the best ways to respond, including filing a protest, and how to come out on top.
Editors Darius Helm and Calista Sprague analyze and report on environmental progress in the flooring industry, featuring highlights from 25 leading flooring firms, including Interface, Shaw, Mohawk, Universal Fibers, Tarkett, Aquafil, Forbo and more.
Editor Darius Helm discusses the stabilizing mechanisms purt in place to help sustain the recycling network, breaking down all the numbers, and reports on new technologies along with highlights from leading recycling operations.
Editor Calista Sprague reports on the state of the laminate category, including developments in visuals and textures, and offers highlights from Armstrong, Beauflor, Clarion, Home Legend, Mannington, Mohawk, Shaw and Swiss Krono Group.
Editor Jessica Chevalier takes a look at ceramic tile paths to market and growth in the category, along with U.S. production investments, changes in distribution, installation challenges, trends and market activity.
Publisher Kemp Harr comments on U.S. productivity and overtime compensation, and reports on CCA Global's convention, Floors & More's inaugural meeting and the Dallas installation summit, hosted by the WFCA and Informa.
Publisher Kemp Harr interviews Paul Hawken, environmentalist and author, on what drew him to sustainability, the state of the environment, barriers to progress, dematerialization, where flooring firms should focus their efforts and much more.
Viveca Bissonnette, design principal at Hollander, writes about her firm's design of BKM OfficeWorks' San Diego headquarters, and how flooring from Interface, Porcelanosa and Shaw helped achieve a flexible workplace design.