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NEW YORK -- The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index now stands at 106.4 (1985=100), down from 110.3 in May.

Monterey Carpets recently won the Best of NeoCon Silver Award for broadloom carpet design.

Pergo announced that it has been granted a patent for the company's click joints by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Organizers of Coverings have secured earlier dates for the 2003 edition of the exposition.

The Conference Board reported that the Composite Index of Leading Economic Indicators rose by 0.4 percent in May.

Housing starts surged an unexpectedly large 11.6 percent in May, the biggest percentage rise in almost seven years and a reversal of two straight months of falls, the Commerce Department announced today.

Foamex International Inc. announced it has executed a letter of intent regarding a strategic exchange of assets.

Amtico International won the Best of Neocon 2002 Silver Award in the Flooring category for their newly launched Century tile line.

Indicating that builders continue to view the market for new single-family homes as stable and healthy, the National Association of Home Builders' Housing Market Index (HMI) for June remained unchanged from a revised 60 reading in the previous month.

Weighed down by slower auto sales and lower prices at the gas pump, retail sales in May saw their sharpest monthly decline since November.