NWFA Expo 2008 - May 2008
This year’s National Wood Flooring Association Education Conference and Wood Flooring Expo in March, held in Ft. Lauderdale, was missing several of the largest hardwood flooring players.
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This year’s National Wood Flooring Association Education Conference and Wood Flooring Expo in March, held in Ft. Lauderdale, was missing several of the largest hardwood flooring players.
Much has been said and written about the current economic malaise. The stock market is falling and the money supply is tight. Interest rates are falling and yet these decreases aren’t manifested in lower long term fixed rates to business.
ReSource Arizona has been in business for 25 years serving the commercial market in the Southwest U.S. About 70% of the company’s business is specified through the architecture and design community, and the other 30% is sold directly to the end user.
In the current business climate, driving top line revenue growth is on everyone’s mind. How do we grow our business, increase sales, and improve profitability? Does the potential for growth exist? Is growth always desirable?
Last year was probably the strongest year on record for the hospitality market, and 2008 should be another strong growth year. Then, in all likelihood, growth will slow for a couple of years before the refurbishment cycle kicks in.
With consumers controlling 75% of all flooring sales, Floor Focus and Market Insights have decided to take a closer look at how consumers shop for floors.
It’s not easy these days for a typical hardwood flooring manufacturer to stand out in a fairly crowded, although somewhat bifurcated and fragmented, marketplace, made up of a handful of big players, and a far larger bucket full of small, niche firms.
AEG, owner of sports and entertainment facilities as well as sports franchises all across the world, is transforming a four million square foot piece of downtown Los Angeles into a massive sports, entertainment and residential district.
From my past life as a dancer and choreographer to my role in the design world today, I am always looking for those elements that move me both physically and emotionally.
The latest figures from the U.S. FlooReport suggest that imports of wood flooring have slowed, perhaps in part because of increased tariffs imposed by U.S. Customs and decreased tariff rebates by the Chinese government.