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E-BUSINESS LINKS:
Distribution Consultants
DaCo Corporation - Specializing in business-to-business environments, The DaCo Corporation helps organizations increase sales and develop people.
Merrifield Consulting Group - The Merrifield Consulting Group is known for their expertise in the distribution channels. D. Bruce Merrifield Jr. is The foremost authority on high performance service management, and how electronic commerce is changing distribution channels.
Profit Planning Group - The Profit Planning Group helps NAFCD members understand the financial side of their operations, with the following critical services:
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Profitability Studies - Industry-wide surveys collecting financial data that lets participants compare themselves to relevant profit and operational benchmarks.
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Compensation Studies - A compilation of salary and fringe benefit information for both managerial and operating employees.
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Profit Improvement Reports - Quarterly essays on key profit improvement issues
The Distribution Team - Specializes in helping wholesale distributors become more profitable through efficiencies in inventory management and operations.
CEO Strategist - Rick Johnson provides consulting, strategic planning development and strategy development.
Indian River Consulting Group - Wholesale distribution consultants, channel management, strategic execution, and sales force effectiveness for manufacturers, distributors and associations.
Flooring Publications On-line
Floor Covering News - Floor Covering News is a flooring industry publication, serving retailers, distributors, installers, designers and manufacturers.
Floor Covering Weekly - Floor Covering Weekly is the industry's leading publication, which has been reporting on and, in fact, defining the flooring industry for the past 50 years. More retailers subscribe to FCW than to all other industry magazines combined.
FloorDaily.com - Floor Focus and Floor Radio for the latest news and interviews from the floor covering industry.
National Floor Trends Magazine - Positioned as an upscale, fashion-oriented magazine above all other trade publications serving our field, with information retailers/contractors and specifiers/architects/designers need to lead, succeed and grow. Includes up-to-date industry news, articles, message board, virtual events and much more.
Floor Covering Installer - For all your installation news and information
TILE Magazine - For all your tile news and information
Flooring Insider - For all the Daily News that hits the floor
ICS Cleaning Specialist - Leading Publication for Floor Restoration and Maintenance
Technology
American Business Computers - FloorPro III is a state-of-the-art industry specific ERP system designed for the flooring, ceramic tile, stone, wood, laminates, adhesives, installation supplies, and various other products.
Dancik International - Dancik International is an artistic vision of business software, designed specifically for manufacturers, distributors, and retailers of floor covering, ceramic tile, natural stone, laminates, and other decorative building products.
Gartman Systems - Custom programming and consulting services for IBM midrange systems and PC networks were provided for a variety of business and industry types, including manufacturing, distribution, construction, hospitals and service-based organizations.
Web Design - Webstream Dynamics has been developing turnkey internet solutions for the floor covering industry, since 1995. They offer hosting, web site design, Intranet development and consulting to flooring manufacturers, distributors, retailers and assocations.
Office Supplies
API Promotional Products - API Promotinal Products offers thousands of promotional items to choose from! Order promotions products right online.
Other Resources
Andy Some - Navigant International (formerly Incentive Connections, Inc.), doing business as TQ3NAVIGANT, is the second largest travel management business services provider in North America serving corporate, government, military, leisure, and meetings and incentives clients. Our 4,700 Associates service more than 1,000 locations in 20 countries and U.S. territories.
TQ3NAVIGANT's products include corporate airline, hotel and rental car bookings; travel pattern analysis and ReportFLYR-powered reporting tools; travel policy development; travel management consulting; meeting and convention planning; and leisure travel products.
Floor Covering Installation Contractors Association - The association of choice in the flooring industry to promote and protect the best interests of floor covering contractors.
National Business Credit Exchange - National Business Credit Exchange is a new partner of NAFCD providing access to The Credit Link Network. This trade credit information is available to members via the Internet to distributors and manufacturers. Credit Link has served other related industries for over ten years, and now has become accessible to the floorcovering industry. Credit Link processes well over two million account files each month. This is an information sharing program designed to avoid the high cost of obtaining credit reports. The goal is for the members to have current and reliable credit information about their clients that will allow them to make the best informed credit decisions possible. The information is fast, inexpensive and allows same day shipping in most cases.
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Hot Link - Get instant credit alerts on all of your accounts.
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Trade History - View credit experience within the industry.
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Payment Detail - See actual payments by invoice and date.
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Credit Link - The Ultimate Trade Information Exchange
stoneinfo.com - stoneinfo.com focuses on the stone industry only, thereby facilitating access to information on stone and stone related products.
Trade Shows
Coverings - Coverings is the world's largest Ceramic Tile and Stone and Flooring Exposition.
Surfaces - Surfaces is Hanley-Wood's annual flooring industry trade show.
Domotex - International Trade Fair for the carpteing and floorcovering industry.
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