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For flooring contractor companies, starting a commercial branch or other segment might be the right step to grow your business. Contributing editor Dave Stafford offers advice on how to get started, from branding to rollout, and pitfalls to avoid.
Designer Sequoyah Hunter Cuyjet, a design advocate with Determined by Design in Washington, D.C., highlights a few of her favorite commercial flooring products she’s used in recent projects, including some from Tarkett, Chilewich and Six Degrees.
The continued drive to get better has kept the flooring industry humming for decades, and today, innovation continues at a rapid rate. Executive editor Darius Helm delves into some of the most transformative contemporary technologies in flooring.
This report from editor Jessica Chevalier considers the needs of this unique sector, which demands high-performing and appealing floors that contribute to independence and wellbeing, with leaders from top design firms sharing insights on the segment.
Training and retaining RSAs is a key to success for independent flooring retailers. Editor Jessica Chevalier talks with three retailers who have dedicated considerable time and resources to educating and honing their sales teams.
In spite of the fact that the in-person season one flooring shows have been postponed, manufacturers have continued launching products. In this round-up, we offer a glimpse of the exciting new introductions for early 2020.
In an unexpected twist, 2021 is looking up for residential broadloom, which received a fourth quarter boost in 2020. In this report, editor Meg Scarbrough takes a look at how Covid may be pushing homeowners back toward soft surfaces.
The do-it-yourself market, mostly served by the big boxes, boomed in the pandemic as people sheltered in place and sought to make their homes more comfortable. Will this trend continue post-Covid, and how might it change the floorcovering market?
Publisher Kemp Harr talks about recent price increases among major floorcovering suppliers and the rise in oil prices, and how this could impact consumer demand. He also addresses consolidation among retailers, contractors and distributors.
Publisher Kemp Harr catches up with Geoff Gordon, executive director of Fuse Commercial Flooring Alliance, who talks about the challenging business of commercial contracting and his own journey to become leader of Fuse over his 35-year career.