Hicksville, N.Y.—FloorBiz.com, one of the Internet’s leading “vertical business communities” for the floor covering industry, has expanded its partnership with Floor Covering News to include the Web site’s industry classified and career opportunity sections.

“ FCNews can now offer customers who place ads in its publication a ‘free’ listing in either of those sections on FloorBiz.com,” said David Kern, vice president of FloorBiz.com. “This will greatly enhance the exposure these ads presently experience in FCNews by making them available to our visitors.

“With us being the largest flooring directory on the Internet and FCNews doing what it does with news,” he said of the partnership and its expansion, “it’s truly a natural fit. We aren’t just a directory, we are a vertical flooring environment where people can come and spend time while checking out our classifieds, our news section and everything else. This expansion represents a win-win for both FloorBiz.com and FCNews.”

“Since 2001, Floor Covering News and FloorBiz.com have been working together to provide industry news to as many people as possible,” said Albert Wahnon, president, editor and publisher of FCNews. “We have extended this relationship to include our valued classified business partners, enabling them to reach far more people than any other industry resource of this nature. This is just another example of how FCNews and FloorBiz.com are helping their constituents be more successful.”

FloorBiz.com, noted Kern, leverages the interactive features and global reach of the Internet to create a multi-national, targeted business community vertically integrated from consumer to manufacturer. It also features a comprehensive flooring directory with more than 26,000 registered companies worldwide.

The Web site also offers an up-to-date industry news section, a trade show and industry events section, a flooring forum, an employment opportunity and career section, an auction site, a classified section as well as hundreds of product information pages.

“Our partnership with FCNews began 3-1/2 years ago when it offered to let us post news from its pages to our Web site,” said Kern. “This provided us with a reliable and established source for industry news to keep our users informed, and provided FCNews with valuable exposure to over 225,000 monthly unique visitors to FloorBiz. It has turned out to be a mutually beneficial relationship.”

“By partnering with FloorBiz.com,” concluded Wahnon, “FCNews acknowledges the importance of the Internet while at the same time is offering their customers a valuable service.”

FloorBiz.com, which has been online since 1996, receives more than 2,800,000 unique visitors per year while serving up over 9,500,000 pages of information annually. The Web site attracts buyers and sellers from around the world by catering to individuals with similar professional interests as well as consumers seeking its products and services. For more information on FloorBiz.com and its services, call 866/378-0111 or visit floorbiz.com. —Louis Iannaco