Blog: How to get news coverage
Let’s start with the press release One of the more memorable phone calls I received as a rookie reporter covering home furnishings came from a …
Tag: opinion
Will the pandemic home goods boom continue?
This story first appeared at sister publication Casual News Now. As the COVID-19 pandemic forced people to shelter at home for much of last year, …
Blog: ‘We don’t manufacture anything!’
How furniture today is like a pair of Air Jordans, and not in a good way Thomasville upholstery on sale at Costco? Broyhill available exclusively …
Blog: What big furniture trend might you be missing?
By Ben Haverty There’s a furniture trend happening that few are talking about but one that retailers and manufacturers need to know about for their …
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 …
Paying it forward: Mentorship the glue of the industry
Mike Genrich’s passing reminds us of the industry’s enduring humanity By Brian Carroll When Home News Now publisher Rick Harrison asked whether I might be …
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 …
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: Room on the marquee for furniture’s designers?
By Brian Carroll To visit High Point a week before market is to wonder how exhibitors could possibly open their doors in seven days. The …
