Retail Strategist Connie Post Teams With Moe’s Home Collection

Furniture World News Desk on 10/5/2016

Moe Samieian, Sr recently announced that they have teamed with Retail strategist and designer Connie to create Connie Post Select. The color-based merchandising program for decorative accessories and furniture is set to be unveiled in the Moe’s Home Collection showroom (IHFC D430) at the High Point Market later this month.

According to Post, the new collaboration expands her female-driven, product design aesthetic into total home concepts. The debut collection showcases on-trend color and style stories within Moe’s line of lifestyle furnishings (encompassing bedroom, dining and living room) in exciting merchandising presentations with tabletop and metal sculptures, wall décor, lighting, area rugs, accent pillows, a color-coordinated accent chair and accents like bookcases, bars and stools, ottomans and carts.

“Our goal is to enable retailers to present consumers with a visually stimulating shopping experience that allows them to choose from completely decorative room vignettes created for them by a professional designer,” Post says.

Bill Carpenter, vice president of sales, Moe’s Home Collection, got the conversation started says Moe Samieian, Jr., president of the international concern’s wholesale division based in Vancouver, BC with warehouses in Washington and Kentucky. “We have a very strong decorative accessory line-up across all categories and we were looking for a way to make shopping and merchandising the line easier for our dealers,” he says. “Bill suggested that we talk to Connie and we quickly realized her experience and understanding of the way consumers shop today would be the perfect fit.”

The company sprang from retail roots and continues to operate successful West Coast stores, as well as a newly launched franchise initiative. “Connie’s vast experience and reputation in store design brings us a lot of credibility,” Carpenter says. “She’s a great asset.”

“We are very excited to invite dealers to experience our new system for showcasing accessories in High Point,” says Samieian, Jr. “Our new program with Connie is a great opportunity for retailers to maximize their sales-per-square-foot in a minimal footprint envisioned by a designer who understands how to excite shoppers.”

Early reception to the merchandising program is already overwhelmingly positive, Post says, with major pre-market commitments from Furniture Row and Room Place.

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More about Connie Post: Renowned as a retail design strategist, author, trend translator and developer of both product and brands, Connie Post has built a career on understanding where consumers are, what they want most, and where they are going next. As the standard bearer of visual marketing in the home furnishings industry for the past three decades, she is responsible for the look of more than 20 million square feet of retail and wholesale space around the globe. Driven by a design philosophy that relentlessly emphasizes affordability and return-on-investment (ROI), her firm—Connie Post Affordable Design—is committed to providing retailers and manufacturers with fresh and innovative environments that elevate the guest experience. For more information, visit www.conniepost.com.

More about Moe’s Home Collection: Design Made Simple: Based in Vancouver, BC with warehousing in Washington and Kentucky, Moe’s Home Collection is an international, whole-home brand supplying consumers across the globe with modern furniture and accessories. With a fresh, comprehensive and ever-changing product portfolio set apart by the unique and practiced eye of founder and chief executive Moe Samieian, Sr., the family-owned and –operated concern maintains showrooms at the High Point, Las Vegas, Atlanta and Dallas Markets. For more information, visit www.moeshomecollection.com.