As flooring manufacturers, distributors, dealers, contractors and installers have likely found out, their job is not done when the end-customer purchases a floor and the installer installs it—far from it.
I get it’s been at least a month since the “60 Minutes” story broke about Lumber Liquidators, but don’t think for a minute this news is going to disappear, not with the publically traded national chain store fighting back the allegations combined with lawsuits alleging, among other things, insider trading.
Attendees for the SURFACES part of The International Surface Event (TISE) here came, saw and voted for their favorite products at the tradeshow’s New Product Marketplace.
When I attend Surfaces, Domotex or Domotex asia/ChinaFloor—or any show for that matter—the absolutely over the top find for me is coming across something new; discovering a new product; a clever, original idea or a concept nobody thought of before; offered something different; something that’s more efficient; better looking or singularly distinctive.
Despite the conflicting predictions of the various celebrity groundhogs around the country the fact is spring will officially arrive March 20 when the Vernal Equinox takes place.
If we’re not growing, we’re dying,” noted Kieth Spano, president of Flooring America/Flooring Canada (FA/FC), as the co-op kicked off it’s 2015 winter “conneXtion,” a named the group coined last year to emphasize the many ways and areas members are connected to each other, their suppliers and, most of all, their customers.
Thirty years ago, three industry veterans—Howard Brodsky, Sandy Mishkin and the late Alan Greenberg—got together and put a business plan together for a retailer-owned cooperative designed to give the independent dealer a chance to level the playing field against the larger, national players in the industry.
