TILE & RELATED PRODUCTS - IMPORTANT UPDATES

Soft Discontinued or Dropped Announcement

Below you will find a list of Discontinued items announced by the Manufacturer. To assist purchasing with the reordering process, I am listing the items below to make you aware of these drops. Product Information Management team will update the Kerridge System immediately.

Discontinued by Manufacturer

• Marazzi has discontinued the Modern Oasis Gentle Rain 2x2 Mosaic
• CTIRIGGMOS22
• CTIRIGGMOS22SW
• MRZMOGEMOS22
• MRZMOGEMOS22SW
• VTLRIGGMOS22
• VTLRIGGMOS22SW

Discontinued by Virginia Tile

• We have discontinued the Vallelunga Tabula line in its entirety. However, they can still be ordered via MISC codes
• VALDISPTABULA
• VALLITETABULA
• VALTABIBN336R
• VALTACEBN336R
• VALTAMIBN336R
• VALTANOBN336R

Discontinued Glossary:

• Discontinued by MFG – the manufacturer/supplier has Discontinued item
• Discontinued by VTC – Virginia Tile is discontinuing the product and will not promote any longer
• Moved to Factory Stock – Virginia Tile will still promote but we will not house inventory any longer. Orders will come from the supplier.



MEETING / LAUNCH ZONE

DISPLAYS AND MERCHANDISING

SAMPLE NEWS

News from Brian:

This week we sent the following displays out:

Check packing summaries (attached) to see what you are getting.

• VTC Fiesta (concept & roiling racks)
• MLS Jem- 3x12 Adagio White (pieces for waterfall boards and samples)

*** some projects maybe missing back labels-please reach out to marketing with questions

If you don’t receive these displays listed by Oct 13, please let me know.

Items that are back ordered and we still owe some showrooms(to glue on waterfall boards):

MRZ Illusionist – 1x24 mosaic display board and coordinating samples.



WOODWORKING

Reminders

• Pride 9880 UM Drawer Slide Promo. 
• Blum Essentials coming soon!
• Increased inventories on staple products to promote VT customer success! 
• Blum E-Services CSR training event scheduled 9am – 10am Thursday, October 19^th. 
• Blum E-Services Customer training event scheduled 2pm – 3pm Thursday, November 16^th. 
• Wilsonart Quartz – Grand Summit Collection 
• 6 new colors will be announced soon – details to follow with launch date. 

UPDATES FROM OPERATIONS

Problem Suppliers

These suppliers have advised us of extreme delays, so we are expecting supply outages beyond the normal issues 

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• In 1984, Astronaut Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st US woman to walk in space during a Space Shuttle Challenger mission (STS-41-G)
• In 1992 Action thriller film "Under Siege" directed by Andrew Davis starring Steven Seagal in his most famous role is released

Fun Fact...

• Over half of the bones in the human body are contained in the hands and feet.
• There are 26 bones in each foot and 27 bones in each hand, collectively containing 51% of all the bones in the body.