July 25, 2025—Malisa Maynard, Chief Sustainability Officer for Mohawk, and Kemp Harr discuss the highlights of last week’s flooring sustainability summit and Mohawk’s recently released 2025 Impact Report. Listen to the interview for more details.
July 23, 2025—Bailey Walton, director of marketing for Anderson Tuftex, and Kemp Harr discuss the brand’s recent growth by differentiating itself with residential interior designers and developing products that fit the influencer’s needs. Listen to the interview to hear how brand strategy can help brands grow in a soft market.
July 18, 2025—Hector Narvaez, EVP of Sales and Marketing with the Iris Ceramica Group, and Kemp Harr discuss the core takeaways from this week’s Flooring Sustainability Summit in Washington, D.C. Listen to the interview for more details.
July 17, 2025—Sunil Palakodati, CEO with Artivo Surfaces, and Kemp Harr discuss the recent news that the firm was acquiring the Walker Zanger and Anthology brands from Mosaic. Listen to the interview to hear more details about the strategic fit of these brands in Artivo’s flooring distribution business.
July 16, 2025—Bill Griese, the chairman of the Flooring Sustainability Summit in Washington, D.C., and Kemp Harr discuss the highlights of this year’s two-day meeting. Listen to the interview to hear more details on the broad range of topics, the target audience and the key speakers at this year’s event.
July 14, 2025—Jim Lloyd, president of Cornerstone Commercial Flooring, and Kemp Harr discuss the firm’s acquisition of Craft Croswell. Listen to the interview for more details about these two Starnet members coming together.
July 10, 2025—Miller McNamara, owner of Jimmy Lyle's Flooring Gallery, and Kemp Harr discuss this Mississippi-based flooring dealer’s recent growth and diversity into fabrication. Listen to the interview to hear more about how this NFA member is growing.
July 7, 2025—Scott Banda, Co-Founder of Climit, and Ali Cheloei, President of Abbey Commercial Flooring, a commercial flooring contractor in the Washington, D.C. area, discuss with Kemp Harr the benefit of using Climit site monitoring on job sites to ensure site conditions are within spec before the flooring is installed. Listen to the interview for more details. Climit was first introduced into the market as Floorcloud.
July 3, 2025—Eric Astrachan, executive director of the Tile Council of North America (TCNA), and Kemp Harr discusses the recent challenge to the Department of Commerce’s ruling that India was not selling tile under fair market value. Listen to the interview for more details on this and also learn about a new flooring abrasion test that is nearing acceptance by the testing standards organizations.
July 2, 2025—Cathy Buchanan, owner of Independent Carpet One in Westland, Michigan, and Kemp Harr discuss the pace of sales for 2025 in Cathy's store and CCA Global’s summer regional meetings. Listen to the interview for more details.