Roles and titles as prophecy
You are who and what you are called My best friend growing up liked to call me Word Man. When I said something he believed …
Author: Brian Carroll
Brian Carroll covered the international home furnishings industry for 15 years as a reporter, editor and photographer. He chairs the Department of Communication at Berry College in Northwest Georgia, where he has been a professor since 2003.
Learning from Ikea’s long game and ‘glocal’ sourcing strategy for India
A snapshot of furniture retailing in one of the world’s largest markets Reading through the various reports on the opening of Ikea’s 460,000-square-foot store in …
Leading Irish furniture retailer embraces the metaverse
Irish-owned EZ Living Furniture leading the way in consumer-facing technology GALWAY, Ireland – To visit Ireland in 2022 is to see the world turned upside …
In photos: What’s selling in Ireland
Home News Now contributor Brian Carroll checked out the retail furniture scene Galway, Ireland during a month-long multimedia journalism trip with college students this summer. …
What’s selling in Ireland
A dispatch from the furniture stores on the Emerald Isle I last visited Ireland in October 2019, well before Covid. Returning with a student group …
Skilled labor the next front in the war for disposable income
Globalization fraying at the edges and everywhere in between In my town, probably like yours, “Help Wanted” signs are ubiquitous and, as I prepare to …
Movers, Shakers and the return of Nichols & Stone
A look at another enduring American furniture style I read with interest Stickley’s announcement that production of Nichols & Stone dining sets has resumed, this …
Furniture merely a pawn in geopolitical chess match
Biden seeks a counter-balance to China’s influence in Asia In Washington, D.C., what isn’t said is often as important as anything spoken or published. In …
Entering an age of transparency
Third in a two-part series on supply chains One of the buzzwords in higher education is “high impact learning” or, as my institution acronymized it, …
Blog: The furniture industry’s tough week on Wall Street
And that’s before last week’s market rout; looking for good news heading into summer A trophic cascade of woes is throwing gasoline on what previously …
