Steve Simonson is a pioneer in the floor covering industry, launching iFloor.com in 1999 and in the process defining how marketing floor coverings online would play out in the years to come.
Since joining the flooring trade press over 22 years ago I’ve attended countless trade shows, conventions and sales meetings, along with an untold number of industry-related events.
This is neither a boast nor complaint as this is an integral part of any trade journalist’s job.
About 130 installation industry professionals were on hand for the 2015 International Certified Floorcovering Installers Association (CFI) convention, held recently in Dallas.
The importance of qualified installation and the issues impacting it were key topics of conversation at Starnet’s Fall 2015 Membership Meeting in Boston.
It was estimated in 2010 there were between 11,000 and 12,000 establishments selling floor coverings in the U.S. That number, according to many experts, has contracted to an estimated 8,000 to 9,000 in 2015.
