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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3 phases to preparing for the inevitable
There are many moving parts when it comes to running an independent business, and while most business owners tend to the urgent matters first, some may be forgetting an important and inevitable event coming up in the future: transition.
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 …
Thomasville, JCPenney owner Authentic Brands files for IPO
NEW YORK — Authentic Brands Group, the brand development, licensing and marketing company that acquired Thomasville, Drexel and Henredon assets less than three years ago, …
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 …
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 …
Room & Board opening second Texas store in Austin
MINNEAPOLIS — Room & Board will open a second Texas store in Austin early next year as it continues its growth strategy of opening new …
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 …
Bob’s opens more stores in Michigan, Delaware
MANCHESTER, Conn. — Bob’s Discount Furniture has opened its eighth Michigan store in Ann Arbor and its second Delaware showroom in Dover, pushing the Top …
James By Jimmy DeLaurentis goes direct to consumer
Luxury upholstery and accessories brand launches e-commerce-enabled website PHILADELPHIA — Having seen an uptick in online shopping in the home furnishings industry over the past …
