Crate & Barrel uncomplicates interior design
Even the pros are taking advantage of free design tools the retailer and sister brand CB2 just launched for consumers At a time when consumers …
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Cory Price promoted to CEO at Furniture Mart USA
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Furniture Mart USA has promoted Cory Price to CEO, filling the post previously held by Jim Heinitz, who retired Jan. 1. …
June furniture store sales up 17.1%
WASHINGTON — Furniture and home furnishings stores posted a 17.1% increase in June sales over the same month last year, weathering the first full-month post-lockdown …
Furniture Mart USA sets sights on Duluth, Minn.
DULUTH, Minn. — Top 50 furniture retailer Furniture Mart USA will expand farther north of Minneapolis late this year with the opening of a Furniture …
Blog: The staying power of midcentury modern
Explaining why midcentury modern is everywhere Like most fashion-influenced, design-centric industries, furniture is cyclical. Every 20 years or so, styles return, albeit to varying degrees …
Why hasn’t the foam supply bounced back?
HIGH POINT — It’s been months since severe winter weather knocked out the foam chemical producers in the Gulf Coast region. Pipes have thawed, temperatures …
Blog: 3 ways the pandemic has permanently changed retail
Aside from Covid, what’s the single most important event in the U.S. of the last 30 years? I was talking to Doug Sanicola, president of …
Retailers start saying no to some containers
HIGH POINT — When it comes to containers, the price isn’t right, and some furniture stores are starting to say, “Thanks, but no thanks.” As …
Purple plant accident and shutdown delays shipments after all
LEHI, Utah — The fatal industrial accident that Purple Innovation said temporarily shut down operations but wasn’t expected to disrupt deliveries apparently is disrupting deliveries …
Vaughan-Bassett invokes “wartime” tactics to meet increased demand
Vaughan-Bassett made a series of changes that helped increase its production of bedroom furniture by nearly 70 percent. Now the company is on pace to sell $100 million in 2021.
