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.
When a new business sees double-digit sales growth in a single year, it does not necessarily say much when you consider how far did it really have to go to generate it.
When it comes to retailers getting the most out of their local community’s consumer home shows, Howie Stein, president of Eddy’s Flooring America in Worcester, Mass., is behind some of the most unique home show exhibits end users on the East Coast—or anywhere for that matter—have ever seen.
Kansas City, Mo., designer Stephanie Stroud entered the Design for a Difference contest, sponsored by CCA Global’s International Design Guild (IDG), with hopes of being chosen as the winner, and receiving the opportunity to do just that—lend her design talent to make a difference in the Kansas City community.
As my long-time editor and chief mistake-fixer Matt Spieler can tell you, I often start out writing about one subject and end up finishing on an entirely different one.
