Subpoenas issued in class action lawsuit against Franchise Group, B. Riley
We reported in July the lawsuit brought against the Franchise Group, B. Riley Financial and former FRG CEO Brian Kahn by “former FRG investors,” including and …
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.
Ikea’s ideas: Drones, pop-ups, resellers, renewables
We’ve lamented in this space before about the absence of an after-market of meaningful scale for furniture, a marketplace offering a bit more than the …
Breaking down the Big Lots bankruptcy
They say a single death is a tragedy; multiple deaths are a sanitation problem. Here in the furniture sector, we have what increasingly looks like …
Too big to fail? B. Riley, Franchise Group granted reprieves
Since missing the deadline last month to file its second-quarter financials, announcing its largest quarterly loss in company history and disclosing that it is under …
A story of crime, corruption and intrigue in an old prison furniture factory
Summer is the time for binge reading, and when I read history, I read all of the footnotes. I’m interested in the sources, the marginalia, the parentheticals. …
A virtual showroom tour with Danish style leader Fritz Hansen
Covering an international trade fair can be daunting. In a matter of days, the jet-lagged correspondent must tour as many showrooms as possible hoping to …
B. Riley’s bevy of bad news threatens to topple organization
Even the borrowed time might be running out for B. Riley, the boutique investment bank in the middle of the Conn’s bankruptcy, the sale of …
Lingering questions about the Conn’s bankruptcy
The web of financial ties and interests that connect the Franchise Group, B. Riley, Conn’s and Badcock is thick and, like a spider web, somewhat …
The road to ruin: A deep dive into the Conn’s, Badcock bankruptcy
THE WOODLANDS, Texas – You wouldn’t blame the good people in Arcadia, Wisconsin, for popping open some bubbly and celebrating like navy sailors in Manhattan …
Global expansion under way at upper-end furniture company Paola Lenti
VIENNA — A sun-drenched courtyard punctuated with rockets of foliage beckoned us off the streets of Vienna into an inviting, contemplative showroom space that is …
