Michigan furniture chain fares better than many competitors

September 10, 2010  by in UnCategorized   

By Aggregated Content in on September 11, 2010 from http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?z3141495461&z=1000247453 Warren -- Art Van Furniture, Michigan's largest furniture chain, is pulling out of the recession a winner, finding ways to get bigger even as the home furnishings industry nosedives for a second consecutive year. The 33-location, Warren-based retailer is hiring, acquiring smaller furniture businesses, opening more stand-alone bedding stores, forming a partnership with a television store chain and ramping up its TV advertising campaigns under new Chief Executive Officer Kim Yost. And it is doing so without cutting prices beyond its trademark array of discounts and promotions. "We made a conscious decision, from the stock room to the boardroom,

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