Here's some mattress marketing gold from a survey that Furniture Today conducted with its research partner, Apartment Therapy. Newer mattresses have higher sleep satisfaction scores than older mattresses. In fact, the newest mattresses ...
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Southern Chill, a band loaded with furniture industry talent, will rock the house at McPherson's Tuesday evening to raise funds for City of Hope, the California-based medical research and treatment center. The festivities will get under ...
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Furniture imports to the U.S. rebounded in 2012 thanks to improvements in the economy, largely driven by stock market gains and improvements in housing, according to Furniture Today's 2013 Imports/Exports Report. Our research indicated ...
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Ashley Furniture HomeStores licensee Factory Direct of Secaucus has opened a new warehouse here to support its seven stores in metro New York and New Jersey. Factory Direct, led by owner and President Eugene Chrinian, built the ...
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In a deal involving two Top 15 bedding brands, Symbol Mattress has agreed to acquire Englander licensee Fraenkel in an asset purchase agreement subject to the completion of due diligence, Symbol officials said. They said the ...
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The historic Boiler Room Bar, a fixture in Market Square until the early 1990s, is reopening for this week's High Point Market after an extensive renovation by the management and tenants of the Antique & Design Center, which operates an ...
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If you have small children, you should not have to choose between having kid-friendly furniture and having attractive furniture. Today you can find furniture that's beautiful and family-friendly. There are many choices available, so look ...
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The RoomPlace here and Gardner-White of Detroit have formed a merchandising and marketing strategic alliance, aiming to strengthen their positions in their respective markets. While the two Top 100 companies did not allude to it in a ...
Attendees at Furniture/Today's upcoming Bedding Conference here will be taking a tour of the TGen research facility that is on the front lines of the fight against pancreatic cancer and other deadly diseases. The tour of the TGen facility ...
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Americans plan to be messy this year as stainresistant fabrics are a must-have for consumers buying stationary sofas in 2013. That's part of the exclusive results from nearly 3,500 consumers answering a recent Furniture Today and HGTV ...
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The Atrium furniture showroom will be up for auction again, this time at the tail end of the April High Point Market. The building is set to be auctioned off on April 25, according to building owner Steve Ikerd of Hickory, N.C.-based ...
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Specialty sleep sets soar when it comes to consumers' sleep satisfaction. Innerspring beds, not quite as much. In a nutshell, those are some of the key findings from a consumer survey that Furniture/Today undertook with its research ...
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When I addressed a few hundred retailers at the Nationwide Marketing Group's recent Furniture Summit in Las Vegas, I had a simple message: Carry more bedding. And I had the statistics to back that message up. Bedding is the only major ...
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Furniture retailer and inventor Billy Joe Griggs has sued multinational giant Li & Fung in U.S. District Court here, claiming the company is illegally producing sofas in China that incorporate his proprietary ready-to-assemble technology. ...
Scott Bedbury HIGH POINT — Marketing guru Scott Bedbury will be the keynote speaker at Furniture/Today's upcoming Bedding Conference. Bedbury, a former top marketing executive at Nike and Starbucks, was responsible for Nike's ...