Furniture World Articles

All of the Furniture World Magazine Articles that have also been published online can be found here. Select a year to begin browsing the articles.

Articles published in 2021

CXM is a tool that will help you to grow your furniture business and outperform competitors large and small.

Fashion Snoops’ expert forecaster Jay Anna Mize looks at what’s now and what’s next in style and consumer buying behaviors.

Andrew Koenig explains how home furnishings retailers can conceive and implement a CSR program that helps employees, customers and the communities.

Here’s what’s going on in retail with IP targeting, OTT, mobile ID targeting, programmatic, targeted Facebook ads and much more.

Here’s how this 380+ store retailer created a new branding campaign just right for reaching out to customers, non-customers and lapsed customers.

Miskelly Furniture ensures succession success— and challenges the next generation to create its own path.

News about Home Furnishings Association’s retail members plus legislative and other information of interest to Furniture World readers.

Ode to HFA's retailer benefits... Texas style

Free delivery and give-a-ways like free pillows and protectors do more harm than just eroding margins. They lessen perceived value.

Nobody in our industry can deny that the past months have been grueling.

Retailers are arrested, die of apoplexy, visit furniture shows, and pioneer DTC mattress sales models. It's the same old home furnishings business!

Ed says that he's never been more positive. Bill issues dire warnings and advises retailers to batten down the hatches!

Selling mattresses and furniture can be a great career. So, what can be done to elevate the status of RSAs, starting now in 2021?

HFA Reports - 1/23/2021

News about Home Furnishings Association's retail members plus legislative and other information of interest to Furniture World readers.

HFA member Harkness Furniture completes a century of growth and looks forward to a bright future.

After what we've seen this year, it's more important than ever to have a support system.

Gordon Hecht chats with a 2,000-year-old man about his experiences in the furniture industry over the past 150 years.

150 years of never changing needs.

Twelve cash flow enhancing ideas for managing your retail furniture store pipeline in these chaotic times.

A discussion of furniture design trends consumers will be looking for as we exit the pandemic.