The Board of Directors of the European Federation of the Parquet Industry (FEP) met on 2 October 2019 and discussed amongst others the parquet situation and recent economic developments on the European markets.  When compared to the same period last year, the provisional results for the first semester of 2019 point to diverging trends. On the one hand, consumption continues to show positive developments in Germany, the biggest European market for parquet, Austria, France, Poland and Spain. On the other hand, flat or slightly declining consumption trends are observed in Italy, Switzerland and Benelux. Scandinavia is ...