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. …
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.
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
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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
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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 …
He did it his way: A tribute
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Blog: ‘I don’t want to scare anyone’
Gary Friedman, CEO of luxury retailer RH, appears to do just that with earnings call comments that have Wall Street (and the furniture industry) talking …
Blog: Home furnishings, corporate speech and a new law in Florida
Furniture companies in the Sunshine State should proceed with caution At a time when many, if not most, big U.S. companies are promoting diversity, including …
