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The National Wood Flooring Association (NWFA) announced the winners of its 2014 Wood Floor of the Year contest during its Wood Flooring Expo held in Nashville, Tenn.

At its recent convention in Ft. Laurderdale, Fla., Starnet Worldwide Commercial Flooring Partnership honored its members, vendors and the designers they work with at its 14^th annual Design Awards celebration.

The National Wood Flooring Association’s (NWFA) Wood Flooring Expo continues to grow. The event in Nashville, Tenn., jumped in attendance by 30%, to more than 3,000 show-goers, not to mention over 50 first-time exhibitors. 

CCA Global Partners has scheduled its 12th Annual charity golf tournament, which benefits the Floor Covering Industry Foundation (FCIF), for Sept. 16 at the Barnsley Gardens resort located in the foothills of the Georgia Blue Ridge Mountains.The charity golf tournament will bring together industry colleagues to support this worthy cause.

Coverings saw attendance numbers rise when the show returned to Las Vegas earlier this month to celebrate its 25th Anniversary, according to show officials.

Although the Domotex 2015 season, which will take place Jan. 17 to 20, 2015, is eight months away, it is already generating exhibitor support according to Jochen Köckler, the managing board member at Deutsche Messe in charge of the trade fair.

NeoCon embraces the holistic approach to designing space, which is echoed in its theme, Place Matters. This will be evident on exhibit floors seven and eight, where over 400 exhibitors will educate the audience and display new product offerings June 9 to 11 in Chicago.

Several hundred flooring industry professionals from the Pacific Northwest made their way to the Lynnwood Convention Center in Lynnwood, Wash., for The Market tradeshow sponsored by Flooring Association Northwest (FAN), formerly the Washington State Floor Covering Association. 

When it comes to the typical floor covering store, many times the owners think of themselves as simple mom-and-pop operations. 

With all the major and secondary markets in the U.S. now covered, along with 80% of the tertiary areas and, most recently adding members in the top four markets of Canada, officials for Fuse Alliance told the membership at the group’s recent convention the time is now to start thinking as a national organization and not just as a group of individual companies serving their local markets.