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.
June 27, 2025—Ryan Dunn, Co-President and CEO of Alliance Flooring, and Kemp Harr discuss the buying group's meeting last week in Park City, Utah. Listen to the interview to learn more about the timing of the meeting and the awards that were given out to both the members and the suppliers.
June 26, 2025—Julian Dossche, President of International Flooring Company (IFC), and Kemp Harr discuss market conditions and the penetration of the firm’s Canopy LVT brand in the market place. Listen to the interview taped this week at their HQ in Dalton, Georgia.
June 24, 2025—Santo Torcivia, the economist focused on the flooring business and a partner with Floor Focus Magazine, and Kemp Harr discuss the 2026 edition of the U.S. FlooReport that has just been published. Listen to interview for a quick summary of this 400 page report.
June 19, 2025—Bruce Zwicker, a flooring industry consultant, and Kemp Harr discuss Bruce’s recent keynote speech to the European Parquet Federation which allowed him to compare and contrast the E.U’s consumption of hardwood flooring to ours here in the U.S. Listen to the interview for more details.
June 17, 2025—Sarah Napoli, an Interior Designer with Corgan in Phoenix, and Kemp Harr discuss the highlights of Sarah's NeoCon/Design Days experience in Chicago last week. Listen to the interview for more details.