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Focus on QEP
QEP is a world class, worldwide provider of innovative, quality and value-driven flooring and industrial solutions for the professional tradie as well as the DIY market. As a leading worldwide manufacturer and distributor, QEP delivers a comprehensive line of building products, engineered wood flooring, flooring installation tools, adhesives and flooring [...]
Team Beare; A New Standard
Beare Flooring is a new age flooring business offering clients a fresh and exciting option when purchasing flooring products. In tune with consumer demands of the times, Beare Flooring are pushing the industry forward in leaps and bounds with their own newly developed software technologies and specialising in mobile showrooms. [...]
Focus On – GMK Logistics
Flooring Magazine recently sat down with Derek Lightfoot, CEO of GMK Logistics to discuss all thing business including a discussion about the expansion of the GMK footprint. GMK has over 60 years of experience in the logistics industry. What is the GMK story? G.M. Kane & Sons Pty Ltd was [...]
Carpet Court continue to push for sustainable flooring
With a mission to provide consumers with a growing selection of sustainable flooring options, Carpet Court continues to make significant progress in the flooring category with the addition of eight new carpet ranges made with revolutionary ECONYL regenerated nylon. ECONYL regenerated nylon is made by recovering nylon waste such [...]
50 Years of building dreams
For the past 50 years Carpet Court has been inspiring Aussies to dream it, style It and most importantly live it when it comes to their dream homes. Celebrating this important milestone in Australian retailing, the team at Carpet Court revisited the past whilst clearly looking to the future. Celebrating [...]
Trend Alert: Heather Nette King’s fresh approach to minimalism
In 2023, it is all about soft minimalism as we say goodbye to colour and hello to texture according to Carpet Court trend forecasters. Interior stylist and Carpet Court ambassador, Heather Nette King shares her tips to achieve this stunning look with some easy to communicate tips and suggestions. Most [...]
GMK Logistics – Celebrating 60 years
This month, GMK Logistics proudly celebrates sixty years of service to the Australian flooring industry. Their story started on the 31st of October 1962 when John Kane registered G.M. Kane & Sons Pty Ltd, naming it after his parents George and Muriel. He started out with just one truck, providing [...]
Dream it, Style it, Live it with Carpet Court
Carpet Court Australia is the largest and one of the most experienced specialist floor covering and window furnishing store networks in Australia. With over 200 outlets nation-wide, Carpet Court has the size and reach to provide quality products and services to almost every household and business in the country. Carpet [...]
Improve your business – prepare for a downturn
The economic outlook is darkening, so now is the time to remind ourselves what we must be doing so we do more than just survive any slowdown that might be coming our way. If fewer customers come into our stores in the coming months, we want to convert a higher [...]
Forging the path to safe, clean workspaces
In the age of environmental engagement, effective air pollution (dust) control is a concern to every woodworking and cabinet manufacturer seeking a clean and healthy working environment. In a challenging Covid environment one company has stood out among its peers and experienced strong growth. So, what is making the difference [...]
Improve your business – Integrate your business operations
More than ever, flooring retailers are investing in improving their business management systems. As providers of IT systems and tools to the industry, we see three things driving this increased interest. Firstly, flooring businesses are being sold to people from outside the industry. In their previous business experience, these people [...]