About a year ago, about two-thirds of the more than 120 carpet options in his shops were made from synthetic materials. Then, synthetic carpet accounted for more than 80% of sales. He expected wool carpet would account for 75% of sales by Christmas and hoped it would reach 80% by March next year. Shoppers were interested in wool carpet, something which was not on their radar a year ago. ‘‘We are pretty excited.’’Flooring Xtra accounted for about 60% of the carpet market in New Zealand, Mr Rillstone said.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 01, 1970 00:00 UTC