WFB Wood Flooring State of the Industry 2025

Apr 3, 2025

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This magazine has compiled a State of the Industry report based on data collected from wood flooring pros every year since 1992. This year the editors again collected responses from wood flooring manufacturers, distributors, retailers and contractors—note that the responses were collected in January before the economic volatility that was happening as this issue went to press in mid-March. —K.M.W.

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2025 WFB Wood Flooring Retailer Survey

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2026 Wood Floor Business Contractor Survey

Here are the results from our exclusive survey of wood flooring contractors.

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Every two years, we ask wood flooring retailers to share insights into their businesses. To take a deep dive into data about wood flooring retailers today, keep reading.

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2024 WFB Wood Floor Contractor Survey

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WFB Wood Flooring State of the Industry 2024

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2022 State of the Wood Flooring Industry

The results from the exclusive survey by Wood Floor Business of wood flooring manufacturers, distributors, retailers and contractors.

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2021 WFB Wood Flooring Retailer Survey

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State of the Wood Flooring Industry 2021

When WFB was preparing this section last year, the world had just come to a standstill as the COVID-19 pandemic ramped up around the globe. In the following pages, you will find the results from our survey of wood flooring manufacturers, distributors, retailers and contractors, as they shared with us how this history-making year impacted their businesses. (Results were compiled in February.)

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2020 WFB Contractor Survey: Wood Flooring Pros Share the Details of Their Work Lives

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State of the Wood Flooring Industry 2020

Following are the results from WFB's exclusive State of the Industry Survey, which the magazine has been doing since 1992. Please note that responses to this survey were collected in late January and early February, when the novel coronavirus was just beginning to be detected in countries outside China. As this issue went to press in mid-March, the coronavirus had been declared a pandemic and was escalating daily.

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