Fishman Flooring Solutions, a mainstay of the flooring distribution business, is celebrating 10 decades of business success this year.

Tim Baucom was recently named as president of Shaw Industries. In this new role, Baucom is expanding his current responsibilities for the company’s residential flooring division to include Shaw’s commercial flooring and turf businesses, the company said.

The 6,000-square-foot showcase combines floor and countertop/backsplash installations.

At the Shaw Network Convention and at Surfaces, Piet Dossche, executive vice president of hard surface of Shaw Industries and president of USFloors, introduced COREtec Stone.

The multilayer flooring category is overrun by acronyms—LVT (luxury vinyl tile), WPC (wood plastic composite), SPC (stone plastic composite) and the like. Philippe Erramuzpe, member of the board at Multilayer Flooring Association (MFA) and chief operating officer at USFloors, has agreed to help us clear up the confusion.

We recently connected with Mike Cherico, vice president of the Floors & More buying group, to get his perspective on opportunities for the coming year.

Stanton Carpet recently announced the launch of Stanton Street Decorative Commercial, a collection of 17 high-fashion carpet tiles and broadloom tailored for the decorative commercial market.

Tarkett North America recently announced it will transition its sub-brands of Johnsonite, Tandus Centiva, Desso and Lexmark to Tarkett. We connected with Jeff Fenwick, chief operating officer, Tarkett North America, to find out more about the transition.

We met up with Bettiga to get his reaction to the NTCA Ring of Honor Award and to talk about his 2019 goals for the association.

After President Trump and China President Xi Jinping agreed to halt trade tariffs last weekend at a post-G20 meeting in Buenos Aires, Floor Trends connected with Harlan Stone, founder of the American Consumers & Workers Justice Coalition (ACWJC) and president of the Multilayer Flooring Association (MFA), to get his take on what it means for the industry.