Vietnam lockdown strikes another blow to furniture supply chain
Production is hampered during a two-week lockdown as importers scramble to secure vaccines By Clint Engel and Tom Russell HIGH POINT — The situation in Vietnam …
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Tom Russell joins Home News Now as editor-in-chief
HIGH POINT — Home News Now, an online news resource covering the home furnishings industry, has named Thomas Russell editor-in-chief, the company announced this week. …
Manwah halts Vietnam production as lockdown is extended
Company aims to buy 9,000 vaccines to avoid a Covid-driven cycle of stops and starts Asian upholstery producer Manwah is informing customers that government panic …
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 …
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 …
