| | | Jul 11, 2024 / The Right News Right When It Happens | | Top Story | | | | CPI declined 0.1% in June but up 3% year over year | | Washington, D.C., July 11, 2024--The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) declined 0.1% on a seasonally adjusted basis in June, after being unchanged in May, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in its latest release. | | |
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| | Today's Flooring News | | | | Ceramic tile imports down 3.9% for first five months of year | | New York, NY, July 11, 2024-In the first five months of 2024, total U.S. imports of ceramic tile were 71.8 million square meters, a decline of 3.9% from the same period in 2023 when imports were 74.7 million square meters, reports Grosser Consulting. | | |
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| | | | LL Flooring shareholders elect Tom Sullivan to board | | Franklin, TN, July 11, 2024--Based on a preliminary tabulation of voting results, F9 Investments LLC announced that LL Flooring Holdings Inc. shareholders elected all three F9 nominees-Tom Sullivan, Jason Delves and Jill Witter-to serve as directors on LL Flooring’s board of directors. | | |
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| | | | Iris Ceramica Group produces first test slab using hydrogen power | | Castellarano, Italy, July 11, 2024--Iris Ceramica Group, an Italy-based producer of high-end technical ceramic slabs, and Edison Next, a company in the Edison Group that supports customers along their decarbonization journey and ecological transition, announce the production of the world’s first 4D technical ceramic slab using a blend of green hydrogen–hydrogen obtained using renewable energy–and natural gas. | | |
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| | | NWFA launches new sales-focused training program | | St. Charles, MO, July 11, 2024-The National Wood Flooring Association (NWFA) has announced the launch of an updated series of sales-focused courses on its online learning platform, NWFA University (NWFAU). | | |
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| | | Louisville Tile and Broadlume form partnership | | Louisville, KY, July 11, 2024--Louisville Tile Distributors Inc., one of America’s largest and longest-tenured distributors of ceramic tile and related products, and Broadlume, a leading flooring software and technology company, have formed a strategic partnership to bring Louisville Tile's Wilcox Fifty Five private label tile collection to an even wider audience. | | |
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| | | CFI opens new headquarters in Dalton, Georgia | | Dalton, GA, July 11, 2024–Certified Flooring Installers (CFI) announces the grand opening of its new warehouse and headquarters located in Dalton, Georgia. | | |
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| | | Unemployment rates remains at 1.2% for week ending June 29 | | Washington, D.C., July 11, 2024--In the week ending July 6, 2024, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial jobless claims was 222,000, a decrease of 17,000 from the previous week's revised level, according to the Department of Labor. | | |
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| | | Oriental Weavers adds vice president of digital strategy and marketing | | Dalton, GA, July 11, 2024–Oriental Weavers USA has appointed Kristen Ritch to the newly created role of vice president of digital strategy and marketing. | | |
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