The last week of May was full of good reads for the flooring industry. Check out our top five articles from this week.

Resilient Floor Covering Institute President and CEO Bill Blackstock offers an update on the association's key initiatives for the second half of 2024 and provides an outlook for the resilient category of flooring. 

Standing out to local customers is key. Here’s how to create, optimize and rank your Google Business Profile in Maps, drawing on best practices and essential ranking factors for local SEO.

From the Starnet Annual Meeting in Amelia Island, Florida, leaders in commercial flooring shared regional variations in confidence and discussed the impact of return-to-office policies, the strategic use of technology and structured purchasing agreements to support commercial flooring sales. 

Leslie Del Pozo, vice president of marketing content & communications, QEP/Roberts has been supporting the installation community in a variety of ways for several years now, including sponsoring our Installation Awards for the second year in a row. Here, we dive more into her flooring journey, what supporting the installation community means to her and the importance of just showing up.

Collaboration between commercial flooring contractors and manufacturers offer opportunities to streamline workflows, gather feedback, and improve product launches.

Members of the Resilient Floor Covering Institute (RFCI) gathered for their spring meeting at The Cloister on Sea Island, Georgia, last week to gain information and perspectives on issues that are important to their business success and to network with industry experts. Here are a few highlights of the meeting.

Floor Trends & installation Associate Publisher and Editor Tanja Kern shares her experience with The World Floor Covering Seeking Excellence As Leaders (SEAL) Leadership Development and Certification Program.

Belknap White’s Dave Godlewski, vice president ceramic, and Jane Twombly, director of specification, provided a more in-depth look at the company which is one of the largest flooring distributors in the country, discuss what’s coming for 2024, the opportunities they see on the horizon and the trends they are following this year.

At the end of 2023, OSHA proposed a rule change that would allow union reps to accompany OSHA compliance officers on non-union workplace inspections. We asked three industry pros to weigh in.