LL Flooring Is Coming Back…as Lumber Liquidators 

Back under the ownership of its founder, the flooring retailer is expected to emerge from bankruptcy with fewer stores and an old familiar name.  Just when it seemed LL Flooring would succumb as another retail victim of the downturn in the housing and home improvement business, it appears that it will live to see another day.  […]

Who Wins Now that LL Flooring Has Lost?

With the big retailing flooring chain liquidating, several competing retailers stand to pick up its $900 million in annual revenues. The news that LL Flooring, the 400-store specialty chain already in bankruptcy, would be shutting down completely and liquidating was not totally unexpected: the company had said if it couldn’t arrange for a new owner […]

LL Flooring Could Be Liquidating Its Entire Company

One of the biggest retailers of wood products filed bankruptcy and unless it finds a savior it could go out of business. We know just about every retailer in the home remodeling and home furnishings sector is struggling in the housing market downturn but LL Flooring seems to be worse off than most. The big […]

Will LL Flooring Be Forced to File for Bankruptcy?

Speculation is rising that one of the wood industry’s most important retailers may be close to going into Chapter 11. Following a precipitous drop in sales – down 21.7 percent this year – and with its share price tumbling more than 70 percent since the start of the year, the big retailer may be weighing […]

What It Means if Cabinets To Go and LL Flooring Merge

The cabinet retailer Cabinets To Go has put in an offer to buy the former Lumber Liquidators. They have one thing in common…besides wood. They are two of the biggest retailers of wood and wood-related products in the country and if things go according to plans – at least one person’s plans – they could […]

Lumber Liquidators, Now LL Flooring, Underwrites Industry Apprenticeships

Richmond, VA—LL Flooring, formerly Lumber Liquidators, (NYSE:LL), will partner with the National Flooring Contractors Apprenticeship Program. With 420 stores, LL Flooring is the largest U.S. dealer of wood and hard surface flooring. With scores of wood flooring installation contractors in its network, LL Flooring is the first national retailer to partner with the flooring apprenticeship […]