Editor's Corner April 2013: Our Industry Is Coming of Age In 1980, the year I joined Furniture World, Jerry penned a six-part series our editor brilliantly titled, The Epperson Report...
Believe In Furniture... Again! Jerry Epperson tells Furniture World readers why demographics, changing lifestyles, the economy and technology all promise to make our industry’s immediate future bright indeed.
Drop Those Percentages Observations on how percentage discounts and some sales goals expressed as a percent may be harmful to your furniture business.
Risky Business With extreme weather on the rise, take a close look at your store’s insurance coverage, especially the policy exclusion endorsement.
Reinvent Your Company Perhaps you have a compelling Mission. And, you may have a clear vision of where you want to be this time next year. But these are only potential powers until every person in your organization understands and can express them. Larry Mullins gives step by step instructions on how to translate your mission into action.
Balancing The Scales Of Business In 2013 Ten areas to consider when seeking to apply focused management and balanced performance.
Eight Secrets of Successful Retailers In this issue, David McMahon speaks about eight practices that separate successful home furnishings retailers from their struggling competitors.
Bedding Anatomy 104: More Components The 10th installment in our Better Bedding & Mattress Sales series continues with a close look at the latex and gel used in mattresses, their features and benefits.
Retail Success Stories Part 18: Leopold’s Fine Home Furnishings Leopold’s Fine Home Furnishings: Beyond the ordinary since 1859.
SexySleep Tip #1- Intimacy/Sex & The Mattress Purchase In Leggett & Platt’s SexySleep research, the components manufacturer learned that 85% of people never consider sex when purchasing a mattress.
Boyles Furniture & Rugs Hosts Ribbon Cutting and Community Event Boyles’ official Grand Opening and ribbon cutting ceremony marks the relaunch of a popular home furnishings retail brand in the region.
Hooker Partners With Retailers To Launch eCommerce Websites As part of the co-branded partnership called P3, Hooker is building out ecommerce websites or “iStores” for retailers that offer Hooker Furniture brands for sale in the retailer’s local marketplace,.
Art Van Furniture's Million Dollar Charity Challenge "Bonus Challenge" To Award $50,000 To Michigan Charities Art Van annoucned that 150 Michigan charities have the chance to win $50,000 in grants as part of the 2013 Art Van Million Dollar Charity Challenge "Bonus Challenge".
Lea Industries Recalls Children's Beds Due to Fall Hazard This recall involves the side rails on 34 different Lea children's bed collections, including loft, bunk and panel styles in twin, full and queen sizes.
Kincaid Furniture Expands Kincaid Shoppe Retail Concept Nationwide Kincaid Furniture Company reported that it is expanding its Kincaid Shoppe retail merchandising program nationwide, recently adding furniture retailers in Denver, Colo., and Grand Rapids, Mich.
Legacy Classic Honors 2012 Sales Representative of the Year The top honor went to Skip Camillo, who was named the 2012 Sales Representative of the Year. Camillo, a veteran of the award, oversees Legacy Classic in the New England states.
Weekly Furniture World Media Note #73 from Lance Hanish-MobileFirst: Solving The Video Content Evolution Question is -- do you try and do it in-house or hire pros? For most brands the answer is to hire pros. The advantage, of course, is the wide range of talent and capabilities you can access. The problem is how to keep the costs down.
Easy Furniture Web Tip 169: “I like you guys.” Web Content That Works! The main goal of your web content should be that you want folks to think, “I like these guys.” Then they’ll take that call-to-action.
Jeff Gober Returns To Latex International Latex International announced it has appointed components veteran Jeff Gober as director of component sales for the company’s western division.
Kingsdown Expands Presence In Asia With First Indonesian Licensee With this partnership, plans are in place to open five retail “Sleep Centers” this year featuring Kingsdown’s MySide® product line and bedMATCH™ sleep diagnostic technology.
Liberty, Southern Motion and Serta Receive Awards form Furniture First Furniture First Buying Group reported that it honored three of their vendor partners with Vendor of the Year Awards, presented May 14, 2013 during the group’s Symposium in New Orleans.
Twin-Star International Receives Seven ADEX Design Awards for 2013 Twin-Star is a seasoned veteran when it comes to receiving ADEX Awards with their first two, a Platinum and a Gold for electric fireplaces, received in 2006.
Ken Burrows To Be Honored With Lifetime Achievement Award By ICFFA In the furniture industry since his high school days, Burrows’ journey has been a circuitous one, taking him from the factory floor to the executive suite and now to a retail store.
Four Students Win Groovystuff by Design Contest Students from their respective schools were charged with designing an environmentally friendly product that reflects the Dick Idol Legends brand and can be produced using sustainable furniture manufacturing practices.