While the residential industry continues to plow through a mixed business climate, one needed to look no further than the world famous Merchandise Mart and the 47th NeoCon to feel the strong pulse of the commercial industry, as more than 50,000 people from around the world fought off heavy storms and tornado warnings to see the newest products for projects they were working on and learn about the latest trends for upcoming jobs.
Business in our core market of Atlanta has been robust for the last several years, and the pipeline of projects continue to look strong well into 2016.
If this title did not grab your immediate attention, it should have. It’s a dangerous mindset, but ignoring instructions is also one of the first shortcuts people in a hurry take.
When the Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) was created in 2002, the concept of diverting carpet from landfills for the purpose of recycling it back into itself or finding other afterlife solutions was mostly pie-in-the-sky thinking.
When my business partner, Larry Burt, and I purchased Kansas’ Interior Surface Enterprises in 2007, we had some very simple and basic goals for the business.
For anyone wondering how the commercial segment in general is doing, one just needed to wander through the Starnet Annual Meeting to see members were in an upbeat mood as the contract business continues to outpace the overall industry.
INSTALL (International Standards and Training Alliance) issued what it called a “call to arms” to contractor members at its three-day 2015 Floorcovering Leadership Conference, which carried the theme of “The Future in Flooring” at the United Brotherhood of Carpenters (UBC) International Training Center in Las Vegas.
