Flooring Podcast

Bruce Weber, President, the American Home Surfaces Group- Part 1 (13:52)

October 23, 2006—Bruce Weber, President, the American Home Surfaces Group, discusses this diverse group of retailers and its recent annual conference at the Biltmore Estates, in Asheville, North Carolina. Weber talks about the size of the group, its history and its focus, the growth it has experienced in the last few years and the company's plans for 2007. Weber discusses the services the group offers to its members and he assesses the current retail floor covering market.

Faus Group President Juan Flores and the Company’s New U.S. Facility – Part 3 (12:31)

October 22, 2006—Juan Flores, President, Faus Group, in the third part of a four-part series, discusses the company’s new manufacturing facility in Calhoun, Georgia and its recent grand opening. In this segment Flores dicusses the two new patent-pending technologies recently launched by Faus, UltraClarity and DualFinish and the company’s philosophy toward intellectual property, how the strategy impacts the company’s marketing strategy and the new products the company launched this month.

Chris Davis & Mike Vogel Discuss wfca.org and Creating Your Space – Part 5 (15:27)

October 20, 2006—Chris Davis, the CEO of the World Floor Covering Association (WFCA) and Mike Vogel, President & CEO, Bridgeway Media Group and Creating Your Space, in the final part of a five-part series, talk about wfca.org, the association’s new consumer-oriented web site. In this segment Davis and Vogel discuss driving traffic to the site, the association’s promotion efforts, how the site wile fare on search engines and their ultimate plans for the site.

Barker on the Market (25:26)

October 19, 2006—Mike Barker, Investment and Retirement management, discusses the importance of the Dow breaking the 12,000 barrier yesterday and how many investors view the news. He talks about the meeting of the Fed next week discussing the market’s expectations for the meeting, and his expectations as to what the Fed may do with interest rates early next year and what such a move would say about the state of the overall economy. Also discussed is an OPEC decision to curtail oil production and what that could mean for the floor covering industry and the up coming earnings season.

Faus Group President Juan Flores and the Company’s New U.S. Facility – Part 2 (11:47)

October 19, 2006—Juan Flores, President, Faus Group, in the second part of a four-part series, discusses the company’s new manufacturing facility in Calhoun, Georgia and its recent grand opening, the plant's technology and its capacity. Flores discusses the second phase of the facility and how the company’s marketing efforts have changed as a result of the new plant. Flores also talks about the company’s manufacturing facility in Shanghai.

Faus Group President Juan Flores and the Company’s New U.S. Facility – Part 1 (11:54)

October 18, 2006—Juan Flores, President, Faus Group, in the first part of a four-part series, discusses the company’s new manufacturing facility in Calhoun, Georgia and its recent grand opening. Flores discusses the technology at the plant and its capacity, the new Faus, the company’s chairman Juan Negre and the actions taken by the company leading up to the opening of the U.S. facility as well as the company’s goals in the North American marketplace.

Chris Davis & Mike Vogel Discuss wfca.org and Creating Your Space – Part 4 (13:29)

October 18, 2006—Chris Davis, CEO of the World Floor Covering Association (WFCA) and Mike Vogel, President & CEO, Bridgeway Media Group and Creating Your Space, in the fourth part of a five-part series talk about wfca.org, the association’s new consumer-oriented web site. In this segment Davis and Vogel discuss the advantages in offering unbranded information on the website, the product catalog that is available to WFCA members who participate in the Create Your Own Space program and the ease with which members can administer the information on the site themselves.

Chris Davis & Mike Vogel Discuss wfca.org and Creating Your Space – Part 3 (12:45)

October 17, 2006—Chris Davis, CEO, World Floor Covering Association (WFCA) and Mike Vogel, President & CEO, Bridgeway Media Group and Creating Your Space, in the third part of a five-part series, talk about wfca.org, the association’s new consumer-oriented web site. In this segment Davis and Vogel discuss the generic information included on the site and its goals, the specifics of the Creating Your Space program, the Elite and Premium options available to WFCA members, their features and costs, the site’s dealer locator feature and who will be included the locator. Also discussed are the merchandising tools available for local dealers who jparticipate in the program at the Elite level.

Floor Focus Magazine’s Frank O’Neill and Industry Events of the Week (34:44)

October 17, 2006—Frank O’Neill, co-publisher Floor Focus discusses: INSTALL, the International Standards and Training Alliance forum that the organization held last week in New York, the group’s new director John T. McGrath, Jr., and the retirement of Jim Schmid, INSTALL’s first director; Pergo’s lowering it earnings guidance for 2006 and the laminate market; The fire at the Anderson Hardwood plant in South Carolina and; Home Depot’s expansion into China and what it means for the company.

Chris Davis & Mike Vogel Discuss wfca.org and Creating Your Space – Part 1 (17:75)

October 15, 2006—Chris Davis, CEO, World Floor Covering Association (WFCA) and Mike Vogel, President & CEO, Bridgeway Media Group and Creating Your Space, in the first part of a five-part series, talk about wfca.org, the association’s new consumer-oriented web site. In this segment Davis and Vogel discuss the association’s goals in developing the site, the Creating Your Space program, the research done in advance of the site's launch and some of the site’s features.