Severe winter weather did not dampen December retail sales as shoppers took advantage of heavy promotions and last-minute deals. According to the National Retail Federation – the world’s largest retail trade association ...
Tags: Holiday Retail, Jack Kleinhenz, NRF, more-confident consumer
International Market Centers officials say the Las Vegas Market has reached 96% occupancy for the Jan. 26-Jan. 30 show. The 96.4% occupancy on 21 floors is the highest level for permanent floors since Building C opened in 2008. A floor of ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Broyhill Furniture is vacating its longtime showroom in the World Market Center here and will share a space with sister company Lane Home Furnishings at this month's Las Vegas Market. Broyhill had occupied space A-1053 for the past eight ...
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BBC TV's Fake Britain programme - highlighting the illegal and unsafe mattresses on sale through major high street retailers - has catapulted the National Bed Federation's (NBF) new Code of Practice and Mark of Approval into the limelight. ...
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LAS VEGAS — The Specialty Sleep Assn. is sponsoring a presentation at the market here by James Kohm, the associate director for the Enforcement Division of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection. Kohm, who ...
Tags: Specialty Sleep Assn., James Kohm, green guides, green claims, FTC
HOUSTON — Mattress Firm, the nation's largest chain of sleep shops, is in talks to acquire fellow Top 100 retailer Sleep Train, according to a story in today's New York Post. The Post story said the deal, which would combine two of ...
Tags: Mattress Firm, acquisition, Sleep Train
Organizers of next month's Tupelo Furniture Market say representatives from one-third of the nation's Top 100 furniture retailers already have registered for the event. They're part of a cadre of more than 500 buyers from large U.S. ...
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Minerva Furnishers Guild and China-based manufacturer Precious Wood have completed an agreement to make the manufacturer's solid oak furniture available to guild members, direct from Precious Wood's Chinese factories. On completing the ...
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Peter Simon, founder of Monsoon and Accessorize, has taken a significant minority stake in Loaf, the British furniture and homeware retailer, for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2008 by entrepreneur Charlie Marshall, Loaf has become the ...
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Using an approach akin to assembling a club sandwich at the nanoscale, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers have succeeded in crafting a uniform, multi-walled carbon-nanotube-based coating that greatly reduces ...
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WARREN, Mich. — Art Van Furniture is donating 700 twin memory foam mattress sets to Habitat for Humanity - one for every Simmons Beautyrest A.C.E. mattress set the retailer sold in its stores last month. The Top 100 company, with ...
Tags: Art Van Furniture, donation, Habitat for Humanity, Simmons
Furniture First buying group has made three merchandising hires and shifted other duties in a move that expands its merchandising team. Brian Hass Liz McGoldrick Jamie Broussard The member-owned ...
Tags: Furniture First, merchandising hires, merchandising team, expand
Yesterday Harrison Spinks – the luxury bed manufacturer which hand tailors mattresses under the Harrison, Somnus and Spink & Edgar brands – was visited by the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg. The purpose of the visit was to ...
Tags: Harrison Spinks, Nick Clegg, Regional Growth Fund, bed manufacturer
December sales for CE and appliance dealers slipped 1.4 percent year over year to $8.4 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today. The preliminary figures, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but ...
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Gallery Home, the new 2014 catalogue from Gallery Direct, offers a unique and striking collection of mirrors, furniture and accessories to suit every type of room and add style and personality to any home. For on trend style, the new ...