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.
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.
It’s one thing to say you are “awesome,” it’s another to be it and for 2015 Shaw Industries is telling—and showing—dealers and consumers reasons why the company and its products are just that: Awesome
Spurred by two consecutive years of positive sales—something most in the industry hadn’t seen for more than seven years—both exhibitors and attendees at The International Surface Event (TISE) in Las Vegas were filled with an optimistic spirit for the coming year.
The Market NW Design Showcase of Interior Solutions, sponsored by Flooring Association Northwest (FAN), will be held March 31 at the Lynnwood Convention Center in Lynnwood, Wash.
The planning for The International Surface Event | StonExpo/Marmomacc Americas | TileExpo 2016, which will take place Jan. 19 to 22 at Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, is beginning with the call for presentations to industry professionals who want to share their insight and business expertise as presenters for the TISE education program.
Through its robust program of notable and respected speakers, Coverings, which will be held Orlando, Fla., April 14 to 17, at the Orange County Convention Center, will feature successful business tactics and best practices from industry leaders—free of charge.
The International Surface Event East 2015 (TISE East) dates have shifted to Nov. 2 to 5 and the location is moving to Orlando, Fla. at the Orange County Convention Center.