Jeff Scheffer to retire from Universal at year end
Sean O’Connor, SVP sales, to assume role of president Jan. 1 HIGH POINT – Jeff Scheffer, a 45-year veteran of the furniture industry, is retiring …
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Coliseum Capital Management submits offer to buy Purple Innovation for $225.6 million
LEHI, Utah — Bedding resource Purple Innovation revealed that it has received an unsolicited and non-binding proposal from Coliseum Capital Management to acquire all of …
Seen at Premarket September ’22
HIGH POINT — At the Sept. 12-13 Premarket Home News Now visited a number of showrooms to get a sense of what types of product …
Takeaways from our 1st regional Consumer Insights Now surveys: The Northeast
HIGH POINT — This week starts our first installment of five successive regional reports that are part of our exclusive Consumer Insights Now Research. While …
Style trends: When less is more
My father and stepmother are selling a home in Wisconsin that has been in her family since 1911, first owned by her grandmother, then her …
August furniture store sales slip 1.6% YOY, down 1.3% from July
WASHINGTON — Furniture and home furnishings store sales finally hit the wall last month, down 1.6% from August a year ago, according to the U.S. …
Premarket kicks off fall market cycle
Exhibitors report steady attendance that many say makes traffic patterns feel more like pre-Covid times HIGH POINT – Premarket kicked off Sunday and Monday with …
The inevitability of the metaverse
Competing in the ‘attention economy’ Earlier this month, HNN Executive Editor Clint Engel warned us against getting sucked into the vortex of hype surrounding what …
Malaysia struggles through furniture industry’s uncertain times
Factories face slowdown as customers have canceled or delayed some orders on promotional to lower-middle-priced case goods, upholstery KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia —Being experts at case …
Retailer takeaways from the summer buying group expos
HIGH POINT — Two of the industry’s largest buying groups just concluded their big summer shows — Nationwide Marketing Group’s PrimeTime in Orlando, Fla., and …
