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2019 Wood Floor Business Retailer Survey

WFB Editors
Sep 20, 2019
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Every year in our State of the Industry survey, as part of a much larger package of data from across the industry, we ask retailers for feedback about how their business is going and what they expect for the future. For this issue, though, we decided to take a deeper dive into wood flooring retailers' businesses. Who are they? How many employees do they have? How much money do they bring in every year? To find out more about what makes retailers tick, start reading below. (To see the State of the Industry data, go here.)

The Typical Wood Floor Retailer

We asked you for your stats, and we crunched the numbers to build a profile of the most typical wood flooring retailer working today in the U.S. Here is what the retailer looks like:

 

 

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