Today’s market size is the volume of sales made through U.S. stores whose primary line is floor coverings. Sales peaked in 2006 at $23.15 billion before falling sharply as the housing bubble burst and the financial crisis took a toll on all retailers. The sales shown here do not include the sale of floor coverings made through general merchandising stores. The impact over the last decades of the growth in sales of floor coverings through such outlets is part of what is seen in the trajectory of sales shown in the graph.

The graph shows annual sales through Floor Covering Stores in the United States from 1992 through 2011. The data for 2011 are preliminary and come from a separate Census Bureau report than the data for the rest of the years shown.

Geographic reference: United States
Year: 1992, 2006 and 2011
Market size: $10.50, $23.15 and $14.74 billion respectively
Source: “Estimated Annual Sales of U.S. Retail and Food Services Firms by Kind of Business: 1992 Through 2010,” Annual Retail Trade Survey 2010, March 30, 2012, and “Monthly Retail Trade and Food Services,” October 15, 2012, both reports are from the U.S. Census Bureau and available at the agency’s website here.
Original source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census
Posted on November 14, 2012