Jennifer Jones, owner of Farmhouse Stone in Houston, Texas, shares how she grew her business from the garage to a full flooring showroom. 

Adrian Simpson, operations manager for Carpet Call Floor Centre, in Victoria, Australia, walks us through the company’s humble beginnings, the installer crisis in Australia and Carpet Call’s international recruitment efforts. 

Eight students got the opportunity to work hands-on with every flooring type during the Floor Covering Education Foundation’s 10-week basic installer course. Hear more about their journey.

Local area high school students were shuttled to the Tampa Convention Center during the NWFA Expo where they were introduced to the hardwood flooring industry as a career option by a panel of flooring industry professionals. 

In addition to sharing their journeys in the flooring industry, the speakers and the attendees discussed how to recruit more women and how to retain those currently working in the hardwood industry.

The 36^th annual National Wood Flooring Association (NWFA) Expo brought a myriad of education and demo sessions, including business insights, tech talks and a four-part tech demo.

Broadlume, a technology company that supplies independent flooring dealers with an all-in-one software platform, announced its acquisition of Banaboom, a cloud-based software company.

The Floor Covering Education Foundation (FCEF) held a virtual press conference on Tuesday, March 22, 2022 to announce that the 10-week non-credited Basic Floor Covering Installation program at Georgia Northwestern Technical College has been approved for accreditation. 

Floor Trends caught up with Brittany Stanley, senior director of sales operations, Builder and Multifamily, Mohawk, to see what has changed since then and get a sense of where she sees color trends currently and give her perspective on the shift of women's roles in the flooring industry. 

Floor Trends reached out to Pamela Rainey, VP of residential product design, Shaw Industries, for a brief update on how and if her design inspirations have changed and to get her perspective on women's roles in the flooring industry.