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 [...]
Vacation led to teak furniture business
When Jes Powers and his friends took a vacation several years ago to Costa Rica, he had no clue it would eventually lead him to start a successful high-end teak furniture business.
Jes’ son, Jay, now manages Custom Teak, 4416 East Indian School Road in Phoenix. The furniture store has managed to do well during these [...]