{"id":32922,"date":"2021-02-25T11:14:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T08:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/?p=32922"},"modified":"2021-02-25T11:36:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T08:36:59","slug":"a-strong-end-of-year-result-for-global-eplf-member-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/a-strong-end-of-year-result-for-global-eplf-member-sales.html","title":{"rendered":"A strong end-of-year result for global EPLF member sales"},"content":{"rendered":"

The laminate flooring sector recovers from COVID-19 and grows by 2,74 % in 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

Despite special circumstances in 2020, EPLF members were able to grow their business by + 2,74 % in comparison to 2019, with459.0 million m\u00b2 of flooring sold. Considering that the pandemic brought the flooring industry to a near standstill in spring, members managed to overcome the recess rather quickly as global sales picked up speed and developed very positively over the rest of the year. Looking at the global markets, North America recorded the biggest increase in sales with + 22,4 % in comparison to 2019 and 49.1 million m\u00b2 sold. The main driver for the major increase in sales in North America – and the general recovery of global sales figures – was most likely the popularity of renovation and DIY projects during the pandemic.\"\"<\/a>
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Another positive trend developed in Western Europe <\/strong>wheretotal sales reached 225.7 million m\u00b2 which represents an increase of + 3,6 % compared to 2019. As in the previous year, Germany<\/strong>remains the strongest market in Europe with sales of 52.7 million m\u00b2 (+ 6,1 % compared to 2019). Although both France<\/strong>and Great Britain<\/strong>sold 37.1 million m\u00b2 of flooring, the growth rate in Great Britain (+ 13,7 % compared to 2019) was much higher than in France (+ 1,6 % compared to 2019). Similar toGreat Britain, sales in the Netherlands<\/strong>increased by + 13,8 % to 21.1 million m\u00b2 of flooring sold. The only major country in Western Europe which experienced a decrease in sales was Spain<\/strong>(14.6 million m\u00b2 sold, – 12,8 %).<\/p>\n

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Sales inEastern Europe<\/strong>remained stable in comparison to 2019 (- 0,2 %, 134.8 million m\u00b2 sold). Russia<\/strong>, the biggest market of the region, continued to grow in 2020 with 46.2 million m\u00b2 of flooring sold (+ 5,6 % compared to 2019). Sales in Poland<\/strong>shrank by – 6,6 % (29.0 million m\u00b2 sold) while the Ukraine<\/strong>was able to defend its place among the top three markets in Eastern Europe with a growth rate of + 1,1 % in comparison to the previous year (10.4 million m\u00b2 sold). Sales in Romania<\/strong>shrank by – 4,9 % (9.6 million m\u00b2 sold) while the market in Hungary<\/strong>grew by + 11,7 % (7.7 million m\u00b2 sold).\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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In North America<\/strong>, 49.1 million m\u00b2 of flooring weresold which represents an increaseof 22,4 % in comparison to 2019. The US<\/strong>market experienced a major growth of + 28,1 % compared to 2019 (38.1 million m\u00b2 sold) while Canada<\/strong>recorded an increase in sales of + 6,1 % (11.0 million m\u00b2 sold).\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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In all other regions, EPLF members reported decreases in sales. Asia<\/strong>recorded the greatest decrease with -11,9 % (25.1 million m\u00b2 sold). In Latin America<\/strong>, 14.1 million m\u00b2 were sold (- 10,1 % compared to 2019), in Australia\/Oceania<\/strong>3.2 million m\u00b2 (- 10,7 % compared to 2019) and in Africa<\/strong>4.7 million m\u00b2 (- 5,6 % compared to 2019).<\/p>\n

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The laminate flooring sector recovers from COVID-19 and grows by 2,74 % in 2020 Despite special circumstances in 2020, EPLF members were able to grow their business by + 2,74 % in comparison to 2019, with459.0 million m\u00b2 of flooring sold. Considering that the pandemic brought the flooring industry to a near standstill in spring, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[254,256],"tags":[7239,2025],"class_list":["post-32922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headline-news","category-parquet","tag-a-strong-end-of-year-result-for-global-eplf-member-sales","tag-eplf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-30.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}