January 30, 2025—Sam O’Krent and Scott Humphrey, Owner of O’Krent Floors and CEO of the WFCA, respectively, and Kemp Harr discuss key initiatives for the World Floor Covering Association in 2025.
Los Angeles, CA, January 30, 2025-Bentley Mills will exclusively offer Thrive in its Universal Fibers’ solution-dyed yarn bank. Bentley reports that it is the industry’s first and only U.S. company to ...
The Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) slid 5.5% to 74.2 in December. Year-over-year, pending transactions declined 5.0%. Last year’s cyclical low point occurred in July 2024 at 70.2. An index of 100 is ...
Washington, DC, January 30, 2025-The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Home Design Trends Survey for Q4 2024, focusing on community and neighborhood design trends, reports that, while the pace of ...
The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) has released its 2025 Trends Outlook report, offering a comprehensive analysis of the evolving forces shaping the interior design landscape.
Las Vegas, NV, January 30, 2025-The World Floor Covering Association (WFCA) presented the Tom Jennings Champion Award to Steve Abernathy. The award celebrates and recognizes an individual in the ...
Washington, DC, January 30, 2025-In the week ending January 25, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 207,000, a decrease of 16,000 from the previous week's unrevised level of ...
Bend, OR, May 11--Millstone Industries, manufacturer of nationally distributed niche wood products, announced Monday that it has entered into an agreement to purchase the former Ponderosa ...
Athens, GA, December 15--Managers with the Athens Invista facility on Voyles Road notified approximately 35 employees with the textile manufacturing facility that their jobs were eliminated ...
It was ten years ago this month that the Invironmentalists, the contract dealer network owned by Invista, was dismantled. A decade earlier, in the 1990s, several of the flooring industry’s large ...
Hoffman Estates, IL, Aug. 29--Sears, Roebuck & Co. said Thursday that it plans to close three underperforming Great Indoors home-decorating stores, convert a fourth to an outlet format, and record ...