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The flooring distribution sector is shifting as consolidation, tariffs and changing customer expectations reshape the role distributors play. Editor Darius Helm explores how leading firms are adapting through service, sourcing and strategic value.
Verhey Carpets, a 75-year family-owned flooring retailer in western Michigan, thrives with a focus on better-end goods, design services and customer care. This profile highlights product strategy, showroom experience, installation standards and multigenerational leadership.
Sam Allman examines the synergy of persistence and flexibility in leadership-showing how inner strength, resilience and purposeful adaptability empower people to overcome obstacles, grow through adversity and lead with clarity and calm.
Dave Stafford outlines strategies local commercial flooring contractors can use to outperform national competitors-highlighting differentiators like responsiveness, installer certification, relationship-based selling and smarter bid positioning.
Publisher Kemp Harr opens with comments on the state of the flooring market, then writes about CB Flooring’s Chuck Bode and his brain cancer diagnosis and ends with thoughts on Ray Anderson following his posthumous WFCA Hall of Fame award.
Sarah Secter, director of operations for Secter Architecture + Design, writes about her firm’s design of Living Lounge, a high-end home in Winnipeg, Manitoba, including how flooring from Laminam and Mirage Ceramiche helped achieve the design vision.
Editor Jessica Chevalier’s report includes revenues by market segment, an analysis of the category, insights from renowned carpet tile designer David Oakey and updates from Shaw Contract, Interface, Mohawk, Engineered Floors, Tarkett and Mannington.
Publisher Kemp Harr reports on the second annual summit, held in Washington, D.C., highlighting circularity, including the new Common Materials Framework, as well as insights from the A&D community, legislative progress and sustainability awards.
Editor Darius Helm offers an update on the state of sustainability in the flooring industry, including notes on circularity, the PVC issue and hardwood’s green story, along with a LEED update and a carbon-positive case study on Interface’s backing.
Editors Darius Helm and Meg Scarbrough offer updates from Shaw, Interface, Mohawk, AHF Products, Engineered Floors, Aquafil, Mannington, Universal Fibers, Novalis, Milliken, Gerflor, UTT, Forbo, Tarkett, Roppe/Flexco, Nox, Bjelin, Parador and more.