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 …
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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.
Manufacturer as publisher
Furniture brands find new value in an old medium By Kimberley Wray Walking the June Market in High Point, it was clear an old marketing …
Blog: The great Premarket debate?
Early this week the organizers of High Point Premarket announced what seemed like fairly minor changes in policy and a new communications push. They wanted …
