July 2, 2015 — Steve Griffity, Retiring Chief Marketing Officer with Invista, and Kemp Harr, discuss Steve's focus for the past 15 years as the steward of the Stainmaster Brand. Listen to the interview to hear Steve talk about the highlights of his career with first DuPont and then Invista.
July 1, 2015—Gary Cissell, President at Mill Creek Flooring (a 16 store regional flooring chain based in Tulsa, Oklahoma), and Kemp Harr discuss business conditions and flooring sales in the midwest. Listen to the interview to hear more about their recent uptick in business.
June 26, 2015—Alan Fennell, Resilient Flooring Market Director for Milliken, and Kemp Harr discuss Milliken's news NeoCon that the firm is launching a line of LVT products to the commercial market. Listen to the interview to hear more about the 109 styles and their decision to enter this rapidly growing category.
June 24, 2015—Reesie Duncan, VP of Creative and Design with Shaw Contract, and Kemp Harr discuss Shaw contract's noteworthy products at NeoCon. Most newsworthy is a new resilient product that's produced using the EcoWorx substrate and as a result is PVC and phthalate free. The inaugural designs of this product are part of the new "In the Park" collection. Listen to the interview for more details.
June 23, 2015—Pam Rainey, VP of Creative and Design for Patcraft, and Kemp Harr discuss Patcraft's two NeoCon awards. Patcraft won an Innovation award for a modular carpet collection called Deconstructed Metal and a Healthcare Flooring gold award for Life & Style. Listen to the interview for more details.
June 22, 2015—Andjelka Tica, Senior Product Designer with Johnsonite, and Kemp Harr discuss Tarkett's Acczent Flourish collection which won a Silver NeoCon Award in the Healthcare Flooring category. Listen to the interview to hear more about this heterogeneous sheet vinyl product.
June 19, 2015—Jackie Dettmar, VP of Product Development and Design with the Mohawk Group, and Kemp Harr discuss Mohawk's award winning products from NeoCon. Listen to the interview to hear about Moving Floors, which won the gold modular carpet award, and the Lakir collection (Durkan), which won a silver broadloom carpet award. This interview was recorded at NeoCon 2015.
June 18, 2015—Suzanne Tick, Collaborative Product Designer with Tandus Centiva, and Kemp Harr discuss two of the products she designed that won NeoCon product awards this week. Listen to the interview to hear more about Asymmetric, an LVT product and Indent, a woven broadloom product.
June 17, 2015—Brian Carson and Paul Murfin, President of Mohawk and Co-CEO of IVC (respectively), and Kemp Harr discuss the completion of Mohawk's acquisition of IVC. Listen to the interview to hear more details about how IVC fits within Mohawk moving forward.
June 16, 2015—Todd van der Kruik and Sherry Dreger, VP Design and VP Marketing with Bentley Mills (respectively), and Kemp Harr discuss Bentley Mills' IIDA Best of Show Booth award and their HIP award for the Math Club carpet collection. Listen to the interview to hear more details about Bentley's NeoCon awards plus more details about their recent growth.