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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 …

A Premarket reset

Sponsors shorten time, make other moves to rein in the event and bring dealers’ full attention back to official High Point Market HIGH POINT — …

The other American Furniture Warehouse

GM Jason Fletcher talks about “going deep” and other lessons learned in the “School of Pandemic” GREENSBORO, N.C. — Jason Fletcher was at the beach …

May furniture store sales jump 67% YOY

WASHINGTON — Furniture and home furnishings store sales returned a little closer to earth in May, posting a 66.6% gain over the same month a …

The moon or bust: Vietnam’s surprising ascendancy

During a visit to Singapore two decades ago, I asked Larry Moh, founder of Universal Furniture Inds. and a pioneer in Southeast Asian furniture manufacturing, …

Blog: Are U.S. anti-dumping duties coming for Vietnam-made upholstery?

And other takeaways from the June High Point Market HIGH POINT — There’s a movement afoot for a U.S. anti-dumping petition against producers of upholstery …

Remembering Mike Genrich

HIGH POINT — Mike Genrich was one of the first people in the industry Chris Taylor met back in 1997. Taylor, 27 back then, had …

The June High Point Market was the first real market since the pandemic hit, and nearly every company introduced new products or expanded popular lines. Here are just a few new items that caught our editor’s eyes:

Memorial Day sales roundup

Booming business, especially in the mattress category, quells concerns over softening demand as the economy reopens HIGH POINT — Going into Memorial Day weekend there …