Flooring America/Flooring Canada: Retail Is Not Dead

Dallas, Texas -- Flooring America/Flooring Canada, International Design Guild (IDG), and The Floor Trader convened at Winter conneXtion 2018, held at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center. The two days of education, training, product education and networking is intended to kick start the year and establish some common goals for the members of the flooring cooperatives.

During the opening session, Keith Spano, president of Flooring America, Flooring Canada and The Floor Trader, reminded attendees that a lot changed in the flooring market in 2017: “Multilayer flooring became its own category and continues to bring excitement and growth to the category through WPC and rigid core products. Engineered Floors bought Beaulieu, Mohawk bought Godfrey Hirst, and Randy Merritt and John Haren retired from lifetime at Shaw. It’s been an interesting year of ups and downs.”