For occasional and accent suppliers, this week's Las Vegas Market should be a good indicator of business to come in 2013. Coming out of an election year and a partial resolution to the "fiscal cliff," many suppliers are hoping that the ...
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Throughout Furniture Marketing Group's 2013 Symposium here, one theme was driven home time and again: The days of sitting back and watching the traffic rush into your store are gone. Retailers need to lift their game, becoming that ...
Furniture importers that have held off increasing prices in recent years may be forced to raise them in 2013 because of various factors, especially rising labor costs in Asia. Governments in Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam - all major ...
LAS VEGAS — Furniture/Today invites companies to submit photos of product introductions for its Best of Market Las Vegas Market to appear in the Feb. 11 issue. Well-received furniture, bedding and rug introductions in all categories ...
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The furniture industry is ready to put out fires if Government proposals to cut unnecessary red tape spread to Britain's stringent flammability regulations. The British Furniture Confederation (BFC), the lobby group that represents the ...
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CINCINNATI -- Top 100 retailer Morris Furniture will open an Ashley Furniture HomeStore this spring in the Eastgate Crossings Shopping Center here. The Eastgate Crossings Shopping Center in Cincinnati will soon have an Ashley Furniture ...
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The Ikea group increased retail turnover in the 2011/2012 financial year by 9.5% to €27.628bn. Adjusted for currency-exchange effects, this represented growth of 7.1%, while adjusted for selling space and currency-exchange effects, ...
LAS VEGAS --- Case goods supplier Legends Furniture said it has doubled the size of its World Market Center showroom in space A-646. "We'd already expanded our original showroom once and we needed to expand again," said Tim Donk, director ...
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LAS VEGAS --- Upholstery resource Norwalk Furniture is showing in a new showroom here that the company says projects a more urban feel for its custom upholstery line. The 3,300 square foot showroom, World Market Center A-225, will be open ...
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NEW YORK --- The American Heart Assn. wants the home furnishings industry to help build awareness of the devastating effects of heart disease on women. Teaming with Concept Marketing Group, a New York-based licensing consulting firm, the ...
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CONSHOHOCKEN, PA. --- Ikea reported that its U.S. sales for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31 grew 11% from the previous year, and same-store sales were up 8%. Worldwide, Ikea Group's sales were up 7.1% to 27.6 billion euros (about $36.8 ...
MONROE, Mich. --- La-Z-Boy said it has completed the purchase of 120 acres of land that will be the site of its new corporate headquarters here. The land purchase, coupled with last month's approval of a variety of state, county and local ...
Aesthetic appeal and durability have contributed to an ongoing use of glass in furniture. However, the use of annealed glass tops in tables and desks has led to an increase in serious and sometimes fatal injuries sustained from falls onto ...
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Kevin Schlinkmann, left Witmer Furniture Inds., receives the Vendor of the Year Award from Rod Johansen, HOM Furniture, Coon Rapids, Minn. Rod Johansen, left, HOM Furniture, Coon Rapids, Minn., with Dee Maas, sales rep for Huntington ...
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Furniture Today market research worked with Easy Analytic Software Inc. (EASI) to develop sales estimates and projections for 19 specific products for 2012 and projections for 2017 for each of the nation's 942 Metropolitan areas. Each ...