December 8, 2020--Ralph Boe, president of Arropol Chemical, and Kemp Harr discuss Arropol’s “Helping Hand” hand sanitizer program that rebates dollars to the Floor Covering Education Foundation to help recruit and train the next generation of installers. Listen to the interview for details and go to Arropure.com to place your order.
December 7, 2020--Zack Zehner, Mark Clayton and Jimmy Tuley, President of Mannington residential, President of Phenix Flooring and VP of residential resilient, respectively, and Kemp Harr discuss the expansion of the firm’s program with Microban, from carpet into select hard surface products. Listen to the interview for more details on the strategy and details for expanding the antimicrobial partnership.
December 4, 2020--Eric Astrachan, executive director with the Tile Council of North America (TCNA), and Kemp Harr discuss the latest tile consumption and import numbers for the U.S. as well as the role TCNA’s lab is playing to help building specifiers understand which interior surfaces perform best for killing viruses and germs. Listen to the interview to hear more, as well as the TCNA’s outlook for growth.
December 3, 2020--Josh McGrane, Sales President for Alexandria International, and Kemp Harr discuss Alexandria International's history and focus today on importing broadloom carpet from the middle east. Listen to the interview for more details including Alexandria’s exclusive rights to sell PBT carpet fiber in North America.
December 2, 2020--Kurt Zanelotti, President of Contract Carpet Systems, and Kemp Harr discuss Kurt's decision to merge his commercial contracting and retail flooring business with Diverzify. Listen to the interview to hear more details on the health of the business through the pandemic and why he chose this route in his strategic succession plans.
November 30, 2020--Cathy Buchanan, Co-owner of Independent Carpet One in Westland, Michigan, and Kemp Harr discuss Cathy's business during 2020 and how the holidays affect the consumers timing on installation. Listen to the interview for more details.
November 24, 2020--Franco Rossi, President of Aquafil USA, and Kemp Harr discuss Aquafil’s state of business and its decision to buy Planet Recycling. Listen to the interview to hear more details about Aquafil, Econyl and Planet Recycling—a Phoenix-based carpet collector/sorter of post consumer carpet and pad.
November 23, 2020--Dunn Rasbury, director of business development for flooring business at A&M Supply and president of the NAFCD, and Kemp Harr talk about the state of floorcovering distribution in 2020. Listen to the interview to hear more about this topic and the group’s recent virtual meeting.
November 20, 2020--Rochelle Routman, Chief sustainability and quality officer with HMTX, and Kemp Harr discuss highlights from the virtual Greenbuild event that took place last week. Listen to the interview to hear a recap of the major message for 2020.
November 19, 2020--Jennifer Hoff, President of Taffy Events Strategy, discusses the decision to move the Coverings expo from April to July 7-9, 2021 in Orlando, Florida. Listen to the interview for more details on what drove this decision.