Beaulieu of America hosted a consumer press luncheon during Surfaces 2011 at Mandalay Bay Resort Hotel in Las Vegas.

BASF will increase the price for Polyamide (PA) 6 polymer by $0.12 per pound, effective March 1, 2011.

FCICA (the Flooring Contractors Association) has formed a new sub-committee to provide a mechanism so that new products and applications developed by associate manufacturers can be field evaluated by contractor members.

Arley Wholesale, Inc., a family-owned, third generation wholesale supplier of tile and stone headquartered in Scranton, PA, recently made a major contribution of porcelain tile material to aid the crisis in Haiti.

Virgil Hendricks, founding president of the National Wood Flooring Association and president/owner of Mid-West Floor Company, passed away Feb. 19 from heart failure. He was 93.

RadiciGroup, an Italian multinational engaged in chemicals, plastics and synthetic fibers, has acquired the German company dorix GmbH.

HomerWood Premium Hardwood Flooring has recently expanded its relationship with Cascade Pacific Flooring Distributors Inc., according to Kathleen Barker, vp operations, HomerWood.

Quick-Step has added The Cronin Company as a new distributor partner.

Bedrosians Tile & Stone has named two new regional managers.

The National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA) has announced the finalists in the 2011 NKBA Design Competition, honoring the best kitchen and bath designs of the year.