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Orlando, FL, January 16, 2025-Speaking to the roughly 1,000 members in attendance at CCA Global's ConneXtion conference this week, vice president of hard surface Cathey Gundlach Links shared some consumer trends garnered from sales at the group's 900 Retail 2.0 stores.
Seattle, WA, January 17, 2025—Buffalo, New York will be the hottest major housing market in 2025, according to a new analysis by Zillow, the first time a market has held the title in back-to-back years.
Washington, DC, January 17, 2025—Industrial Production (IP) increased 0.9% in December after moving up 0.2% in November, according to the Federal Reserve.
Washington, DC, January 16, 2025—Builder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes was 47 in January, up one point from December, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI).
Washington, DC, January 16, 2025—Advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for December 2024 were $729.2 billion, an increase of 0.4% from the previous month and up 3.9% from December 2023, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Washington, DC, January 16, 2025—U.S. import prices advanced 0.1% in December following a 0.1% increase in each of the previous two months, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.
Aurora, CO, January 16, 2025—Uzin Utz North America Inc. is pleased to announce Marco Ludwig's appointment as president.
Paris, France, January 16, 2025—Atlas Concorde has announced the opening of Atlas Concorde Studio Paris, consolidating its international presence in the heart of Paris.
Washington, DC, January 16, 2025—In the week ending January 11, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 217,000, an increase of 14,000 from the previous week's revised level, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.
Orlando, FL, January 15, 2025-Speaking at CCA Global's ConneXtion conference in Orlando, Florida, ITR economist Connor Lokar reported that U.S. industrial production--which more closely mirrors the flooring industry than GDP--has been in recession for the last 18 to 24 months, but that is changing.