advertorial Q&A with paul cleary president, tarkett hospitality What do you like most about working in the hospitality industry? Hospitality is a design centric industry that challenges you everyday to remain focused on budget and service while delivering on great and often unique design. Yet it's comprised of great people who all want to see each other be successful. It's a great source of energy for me every day. What can we expect product-wise from your company in 2019? A lot, HD of 2019 will be our unveiling of Tarkett North America's hospitality approach. We're excited to demonstrate the most comprehensive and sophisticated offering of flooring in the hospitality industry. We will be launching and showing digital custom options in LVT, all made in America for very low minimums. 008 January 2019 hospitalitydesign.com What is something happening at your company that you would like the industry to know about? Obviously, the big thing for us is the acquisition of Lexmark by Tarkett. This brings together great traditions in Axminster, carpet tile, broadloom and game changing LVT - all under a single Tarkett brand - to service the hospitality market. Big and exciting change. What differentiates your firm from its competitors? As stated above, Tarkett has the broadest options for designers selecting hospitality flooring, and in most of those surfaces, we offer full custom options for low minimums. That is what is important to our clients and why we've built a service model around delivering on that.http://www.hospitalitydesign.com