Thank goodness the first quarter in the flooring business is historically the weakest, because for a multitude of reasons sales have failed to materialize. But we’ve still got three more ...

While the carpet industry was fairly flat last year, not all carpet backing producers experienced the same lull in activity. Residential carpet sales were slower than commercial sales, so backings ...

Washington, DC, June 19--The U.S. Department of Commerce on Friday imposed preliminary anti-dumping duties ranging to nearly 200 percent on $1.2 billion of wooden bedroom furniture imported from ...

The first carpet tile was made 50 years ago by a small Dutch company called Heuga. That first tile, a bitumen-backed, ten inch square needlefelt product called Felt, was a far cry from the stylish ...

Grigsby’s Carpet, Tile & Rug Gallery isn’t a company that’s bullish on expansion. With 55 years of success under its belt, the Tulsa, Oklahoma based company takes a conservative, deliberate ...

When students, staff and visitors enter the Thompson Elementary School, they are greeted by a colorful, open and welcoming space that carries the building’s playful exterior design through to ...

Self described as an architect who got into the flooring business, Don Finkell, CEO of American OEM, has spent more than 30 years in the hardwood flooring industry. He spent many of those years as ...

All of us eventually fail at something. It is part of the human experience. The fact is, we learn best by failure. Year after year, even the best and brightest of us eventually do really dumb things.

In 2001, Anthony Minite was given the seemingly impossible task of combining Bentley Mills and Prince Street. Bentley, the California company that had enjoyed the reputation of design star back in ...

Wilmington, DE, Sept. 4--DuPont Textiles & Interiors (DTI), a wholly owned subsidiary of DuPont, has announced that it will be called Invista effective immediately. The name change represents the ...

St. Louis, MO, Feb. 25--Professional installers of resilient flooring will have more opportunities to earn a Forbo Associate Mechanic certification, thanks to a partnership that Forbo Linoleum ...

Enzo Mularoni graduated from college with a degree in civil engineering and went to work in his father’s ready mix concrete business at the age of 24. Less than six months later, his father sold ...