Retail Success Stories Part 18: Leopold’s Fine Home Furnishings
Published:
4/1/2013
Leopold’s Fine Home Furnishings: Beyond the ordinary since 1859.
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Retail Display Trends
Published:
4/1/2013
Ideas for using color to create eye-catching displays on your retail floor.
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Furniture Retail Success Stories Part 17: Crest Furniture
Published:
1/10/2013
Simon Kaplan, CEO of 14-store Crest Furniture explains his philosophy of continuous improvement based on the teachings of such management and leadership luminaries as W. Edwards Deming, Major Dick Winters and Lao Tsu.
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Retail Success Stories - Part 16
Published:
12/3/2012
This month’s retail history tracks the progress of retailer Bothwell Furniture founded as a furniture and bedding manufacturer in 1904. Today at 40,000 square feet it is one of southwestern Ontario’s largest furniture showrooms
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Retail Stories: The RoomPlace
Published:
9/25/2012
The RoomPlace celebrates 100 years in business. Marketing foresight and a focus on family are keys to its success.
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Retail Success Stories - Part 14
Published:
7/12/2012
Design oriented Insideout Homestore, has fun while expanding its business with a new store theme, social networking initiatives and selling condo packages.
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Display Ideas 2012
Published:
6/6/2012
A review of the Trends display at the recent Canadian Home Furnishing Market featuring twelve instructive vignettes. A little bit of whimsy can make the sale!
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60 Retail Success Stories - Part 13
Published:
6/6/2012
This series, commemorating Furniture World’s 142nd year of publishing, continues with the story of how, after two decades of business in an expanding economy, an Alberta-based retailer successfully re-brands to express its vision, and attract new customers.
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Retail Success Stories - Part 12
Published:
4/6/2012
This series, commemorating Furniture World’s 142nd year of publishing, continues with the interesting history of iconic Massachusetts based retailer Bernie & Phyl’s.
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Retailer's Stories - Part 11 Hermann Furniture
Published:
3/20/2012
Part 11: Retailers share interesting stories of growth, hardship and their strategies for success.
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Furniture Retailers Share Their Stories - Part 9
Published:
10/4/2011
Furniture retailers Sleep Country USA and United House Wrecking share interesting stories of growth, hardship and their strategies for success.
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Furniture Retailers Share Their Stories - Part 8
Published:
7/12/2011
FURNITURE WORLD’s retail readers share their stories of survival, growth and service. This series that commemorates Furniture World’s 140 year of publishing, continues with interesting stories from retailers Longs Bedding & Interiors, Verbargs Furniture and Design and Home Furniture.
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Easy And Inexpensive Furniture Store Display Ideas
Published:
7/12/2011
This year, the “Trends Display” at the Canadian Home Furnishings Market featured display ideas in the form of a huge clock surrounded by 12 creative and colorful vignettes.
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Furniture Retailers Share Their Stories - Part 6
Published:
3/15/2011
FURNITURE WORLD’s retail home furnishings store readers share their stories of survival, growth and service. This series that commemorates Furniture World’s 140 year of publishing continues with interesting stories from City Furniture, Gabberts Furniture and Furnitureland South.
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Furniture Retailers Share Their Stories - Part 5
Published:
1/5/2011
FURNITURE WORLD’s retail readers share their stories of survival, growth and service. Due to overwhelming response, this series that began in the March/April 140th year anniversary issue, will be continued into 2011. This time Art Van, Decorium, Stickley and Gorman’s are featured.
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Retail Furniture Stories -Part 4
Published:
11/24/2010
FURNITURE WORLD’s retail readers share their stories of survival, growth and service. Due to overwhelming response, this series that began in the March/April 140th year anniversary issue, will be continued into 2011.
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Best Furniture Retailers Share Their Histories - Part 2
Published:
6/7/2010
Many of our most enterprising home furnishings retailers have shared their stories of survival, growth and service with FURNITURE WORLD readers. This is the second installment in a series that commemorates the 140th anniversary year of FURNITURE WORLD Magazine.
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Special Anniversary Issue: Retailers 25-165 Years Old Share Their Stories - Part 1
Published:
4/6/2010
Some of the best home furnishings retailers share their stories of survival, growth and service with FURNITURE WORLD readers. Due to overwhelming response from our retail readers, this will be the first installment of a multi-part series.
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Happy Days Are Here Again?
Published:
1/19/2010
Three furniture retailers in areas of high unemployment are enthusiastic about doing lots more business in 2010.
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Out Of The Box Retailing - Mortise & Tenon, Etc.
Published:
11/19/2009
Ruminations on the future of furniture retail and the internet. Continued from August/September FURNITURE WORLD.
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All The World’s A Stage At Retailer Mig andTig
Published:
8/19/2009
Two chains (Mig and Tig, and Mortise and Tenon), plus four partners on the leading edge of retail.
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Display Trends 2009
Published:
4/6/2009
Trends Display highlights ways to make furniture stand out while on a budget.
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Profiting From Sports Marketing
Published:
1/14/2009
Even in tough times, sports promotions, incentives and creative marketing can attract interest and retail traffic.
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2009 Survival Of The Fittest Furniture Stores
Published:
11/20/2008
Three savvy Canadian retailers, Paul Dekker, Steve Forberg and Dennis Novosel, look at ways to survive and thrive in a tough economy.
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Sustainability Update: G-R-0-W-I-N-G Greener
Published:
9/11/2008
For these retailers, sustainable retailing is more than a marketing slogan. It is an ongoing process of self improvement.
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Retail Profile: Karger Gallery
Published:
7/14/2008
Renate Karger is racking up the sales in a small footprint store by creating a unique brand and an innovative shopping experience.
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Retail Profile: Decorium
Published:
5/9/2008
Once customers walk in the front door of Decorium, this retailer’s focus is on engaging them and keeping them focused on the home furnishings buying process.
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Eye-Popping Retail Display Trends
Published:
3/9/2008
Janet Holt-Johnstone reviews fourteen “Trends” displays, each having a different visual ambience presented to offer retailers ideas for the benefit of “needy” customers.
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The Media Is The Message At Conway Furniture
Published:
1/2/2008
Retailer uses light and entertaining radio commercial format to promote a “Shop?North America”, environmental and quality message.
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Sustainable Furniture Marketing - Part 3 Bedding
Published:
7/17/2007
The third in a series of articles that looks at sustainable furniture, ethics and organic furniture retailing. Three bedding retailers share their views on sustainable marketing. The new sustainable foams are discussed as is the problem of child labor in rug
production.
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Home Furniture Boosts Taffic
Published:
10/2/2006
Canadian Editor Janet Holt-Johnstone looks at how retail giant Home Furniture boosts traffic with cross marketing and innovative advertising.
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Retail Profile: They Hug Customers, Don’t They?
Published:
9/6/2006
A three-store Ethan Allen franchise achieves dramatic growth rates by providing a high level of customer service and focusing on having fun. After their recent acquisition of an under-performing store in Annapolis, MD, they doubled the monthly comp sales in only five months with the same staff of designers.
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Retail Profile: Royal Oak Home Furnishings
Published:
12/13/2005
Purchasing from all domestic sources, this retailer focuses on quality, selection, customer service and education to achieve competitive advantage.
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