Molyneaux

The Molyneaux Family has been Pittsburgh's #1 family owned flooring business since 1930.

Best Practices - February 2011

By Brian Hamilton The big box retailers have changed the landscape of the floorcovering industry substantially over the last 20 years by focusing on low prices and marketing them aggressively...
http://www.floordaily.net/floorfocus/best-practices--february-2011

Retail Trends - January 2011

By Jessica Chevalier The advice of Patrick Molyneaux, owner of Molyneaux Tile and Carpet, is “Diversify or die.” Recent economic and market forces have, it seems, pushed retailers...
http://www.floordaily.net/floorfocus/retail-trends--january-2011

Retailer Panel: Top retailers weigh in on carpet's marketshare losses - July 2016

Interview by Kemp Harr For a quarter century, hard surface flooring sales have been steadily taking marketshare from carpet, but in recent months this shift seems to have accelerated. Homeowners vote...
http://www.floordaily.net/floorfocus/retailer-panel-top-retailers-weigh-in-on-ca...

Shop-at-Home Sales Option: Retailers, big and small, diversify with shop-at-home programs - Jan 2021

By Meg Scarbrough For years, retailers looking for new ways to access more consumers and expand their reach have been venturing into shop-at-home programs. The idea seems simple enough: a customer s...
http://www.floordaily.net/floorfocus/shop-at-home-sales-option-retailers-big-and...

Online Marketing: Digital marketing is a powerful tool that requires investment and intention – April 2022

By Jessica Chevalier Among flooring retailers, there are miles between how the best are using online marketing to woo customers and close sales and how the bulk are proceeding. Unlike the days of ol...
http://www.floordaily.net/floorfocus/online-marketing-digital-marketing-is-a-pow...

Consumer Preferences: Retailers share what consumers are buying these days - July 2022

By Jennifer Bardoner Home equity and remodeling activity have hit historic highs over the past few years, leading to a lot of flooring being sold. But what does that spending look like-are people re...
http://www.floordaily.net/floorfocus/consumer-preferences-retailers-share-what-c...

Beating the Boxes - July 2006

By Patrick Molyneaux For the past few years, I've known that I needed to update my website and jumpstart my Internet marketing strategy. At the same time, I was hesitant to invest the time or ...
http://www.floordaily.net/floorfocus/beating-the-boxes--july-2006

Molyneaux Tile Helps Customers of Defunct PA Chain

Pittsburgh, PA, December 27, 2007--A former competitor of a Pittsburgh-area carpet chain that closed suddenly before Christmas has come to the rescue of the chain's stranded customers.Molyneaux Tile a...
http://www.floordaily.net/floorfocus/molyneaux-tile-helps-customers-of-defunct-p...

Retailers Guide to Merchandising: Retailers focus on improving customer engagement - Jan 2019

By Beth Miller Showroom merchandising is much more than deciding what racks go where in an endless see of product options. Instead, merchandising is evolving into a visual rhetoric that tel...
http://www.floordaily.net/floorfocus/retailers-guide-to-merchandising-retailers-...

Pat Molyneaux and Jay Flynn Discuss the Design Now Visualization Tool

October 14, 2019—Pat Molyneaux and Jay Flynn, co-owner of Molyneaux Tile Carpet and Wood and VP of Sales for Creating your Space, respectively, and Kemp Harr discuss the new Design Now visualiza...
http://www.floordaily.net/flooring-podcasts/pat-molyneaux-and-jay-flynn-discuss-...

Strategic Exchange - July 2008

By Patrick Molyneaux What business are you in? Before you read on, take a few moments and ponder this simple question. At Molyneaux Tile-Carpet-Wood we try not to view ourselves as being in the...
http://www.floordaily.net/floorfocus/strategic-exchange--july-2008

Pat Molyneaux Discusses His Strategy for Growth in Pittsburgh as a Floorcovering Retailer

July 30, 2018—Pat Molyneaux, Co-owner of Molyneaux Tile Carpet Wood, and Kemp Harr discuss Pat's family run, eight-store, independent floorcovering retail chain based in Pittsburgh. Listen to th...
http://www.floordaily.net/flooring-podcasts/pat-molyneaux-discusses-his-strategy...

Pat Molyneaux Discusses Recent Changes within His Family's Retail Flooring Chain in Pittsburgh

August 24, 2020--Patrick Molyneaux, co-owner of Molyneaux Tile Carpet and Wood, and Kemp Harr discuss Pat's strategy for blending his brick and mortar operation with a shop at home strategy. Listen to...
http://www.floordaily.net/flooring-podcasts/pat-molyneaux-discusses-recent-chang...

Building Store Traffic: For independent retailers, there are more ways than ever to reach the consumers. Knowing what’s best is the challenge - April 2021

By Meg Scarbrough Getting consumers to walk through the front door of a retail store isn’t like it used to be. For years, advertising to them was pretty straightforward and involved TV, radio,...
http://www.floordaily.net/floorfocus/building-store-traffic-for-independent-reta...

Pat Molyneaux Discusses the Consumers' Shift Toward Home Spending and His Shop-at-Home Strategy

October 9, 2020--Pat Molyneaux, co-owner of Molyneaux Tile Carpet and Wood in Pittsburg, and Kemp Harr discuss the magnitude in the shift in consumer spending toward home improvements and the success ...
http://www.floordaily.net/flooring-podcasts/pat-molyneaux-discusses-the-consumer...

Pat Molyneaux Discusses His Strategy for Growth as a Flooring Retailer in Pittsburgh

November 12, 2015—Pat Molyneaux, Owner of Molyneaux Tile Carpet Wood, and Kemp Harr talk about the strategic decisions that Pat has made in his business that have enabled him to become the leadi...
http://www.floordaily.net/flooring-podcasts/pat-molyneaux-discusses-his-strategy...

Pat Molyneaux Discusses Recent Changes within His Family's Retail Flooring Chain in Pittsburgh

Molyneaux Offering Credit to Customers Stiffed by Competing Firm

Cranberry Township, PA, February 17, 2017—Pittsburgh-based Molyneaux Tile Carpet Wood has stepped in to offer a credit to customers who had paid for services from another local flooring business...
http://www.floordaily.net/floorfocus/molyneaux-offering-credit-to-customers-stif...

Distribution Evolution - Jan/Feb 2007

By FRANK O'NEILL, Publisher The big buzz about a possible $100 billion buyout of Home Depot two months ago got me thinking about the kind of value the company actually represents. Of course, th...
http://www.floordaily.net/floorfocus/distribution-evolution--janfeb-2007

Patrick Molyneaux

January 4, 2008—Pittsburg Retailer Patrick Molyneaux discusses the closing of competing retailer Prizant's Carpets. Molyneaux also adds his thoughts on what it takes to be successful when compe...
http://www.floordaily.net/flooring-podcasts/patrick-molyneaux