Furniture Index Dips To Record Low
The Furniture Buying Index produced by America’s Research Group, Charleston, S.C., reached its lowest level for July since the firm headed by Britt Beemer began compiling it in 1992.
The Furniture Buying Index, which is based upon interviews with 5,000 to 8,000 consumers across the country, dropped a point to 57 at the start of July. [...]
Wal-Mart and Penney roll out casual furniture
The catalog notes that items delivered to Wal-Mart stores have free shipping.
The Wal-Mart name scarcely appears, by design. The company says it’s trying to create a brand identity for Canopy, a line of ready-to-assemble furniture, bedding, rugs, lighting, dinnerware and table linens.
Penney created Linden Street because it noticed customers were gravitating to its simpler furniture, [...]
Furniture Sustainability Standard Open For Comment
BIFMA and NSF partnered on the development of this standard over a year ago gathering a broad and diverse group of stakeholders in the consensus process. ANSI mandates openness, balance, due process, consensus, and a right to appeal in the development of consensus standards. Representatives from academia, the A&D community, end users, regulatory agencies, federal [...]
MyECheck Inc. Signs Unlimited Furniture to Its Online Check Service
An electronic transaction processor and provider of alternative payment solutions, announced that is has inked Unlimited Furniture as a client and will be providing the online retailer with its comprehensive suite of electronic check processing services.
This agreement allows Unlimited Furniture customers to use their checking accounts as an additional form of online payment. MyECheck’s patent [...]
John Boos Gourmet Butcher Block Cart with Casters
Price: $659.95
Features:
Solid hard maple construction
4″ End grain work surface
Penetrating oil finish
Lower storage shelf
Optional 2″ non-locking ball casters (adds 5 lbs)
Assembly required
One year warranty against defects in workmanship and material
Overall dimensions: 36″ H x 24″ W x 24″ D
John Boos and Company has been a primary commercial manufacturer of hard maple butcher block products since 1887. [...]
Haverty Furniture’s May same-store sales fall
Haverty Furniture Cos. said Wednesday that same-store sales fell 6.3 percent last month as a weak home furnishing market persisted amid the continued housing slump.
Same-store sales, or sales in stores open at least one year, is a key gauge of retailers’ performance because it measures sales at existing stores rather than newly opened ones.
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Furniture Makers Are Getting Creative
Steel prices up 300% during the last five years, experts say, and 50% in the last nine months alone have already affected industry players such as Leggett & Platt, which makes furniture swivels and coil springs. The Missouri company has had to raise prices on some recliner mechanisms three times in as many months. “Metal [...]
Wholesale Furniture Brokers Introduces the Contemporary
With the competition of contemporary and modern furniture rising in the furniture industry, Wholesale Furniture Brokers aims to capture a larger piece of the market by introducing the innovative, minimalist designs of Furniture FX to their online shoppers, affiliate brokers, and registered distributors.
“When I first saw the Furniture FX collections, I knew these products would [...]
Stay Away From The New Furniture
“The customer is always right” means jack shit when you have a monopoly. And when you’ve just been awarded a 20-year exclusive contract for all street-level advertising in Toronto a city your brochure touts as having “the largest concentration of consumers in the country!” you can apparently also afford to appear controlling, paranoid, and contemptuous [...]
Riva Espresso King-size Platform Bed
Price: $599.99
Product Features:
Materials: Tropical mahogany wood
Constructed of solid tropical mahogany wood and veneer
Rich, multi-step Espresso finish blends with any decor
Platform bed slat system for use with or without a box spring
Metal-to-metal siderail fittings add durability
Measures 44 inches high x 78 inches wide x 84 inches long
Mattress, box spring, and bedding (comforter, sheets, pillows, etc.) are [...]