Mar 10, 2024 | Thought Leadership
Floor covering demand is highly correlated with interest rate cycles. The big news in the flooring industry is that any interest rate decline stimulates flooring sales to households, businesses, builders, and transportation equipment manufacturers. Interest rate...
Jan 12, 2024 | Flooring, Thought Leadership
Signs Are Pointing To The Beginning Of A U.S. Floor Coverings Sales Recovery Catalina Research estimates U.S. square foot sales is projected to increase by 2.5% in the first quarter of 2024. This follows a 1.9% gain in the fourth quarter of 2023. Catalina came to this...
Oct 19, 2021 | Thought Leadership
You survived the COVID-19 pandemic recession if you are reading this blog. However, now you must work as hard to manage the recovery. You may be experiencing double-digit growth compared to 2020 and you may even be outpacing 2019 sales levels, however, you must have...
Jan 11, 2021 | Thought Leadership
Now that you survived the 2020 pandemic-induced recession and the uncertainties of the lockdowns and stay in-place-orders, you must plan to take advantage of the upturn in floor coverings sales in 2021. Just like real estate (location, location, location) you must...
Nov 20, 2020 | Thought Leadership
Catalina has released a new annual report to track floor coverings sales and distribution channels by region and state since all final floor coverings sales and installation revenues are driven by local economic factors. Catalina analyses personal income, residential...
Sep 11, 2020 | Thought Leadership
Catalina just completed the annual Floor Coverings Distribution Channel Report. Our in-depth analysis indicates the installed value of flooring spending could decline by 3.9% during 2020. Flooring spending is expected to outperform the gains in the U.S. economy...
