Furniture King, Lemoore Furniture Get Life Memberships to NHFA, WHFA

March 5, 2012  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in Furniture Retailing on March 6, 2012

Two furniture retailers are the proud owners of lifetime memberships to the National Home Furnishings Association and the Western Home Furnishings Association.

The associations raffled off the memberships during last month's Winter Las Vegas Market.

Tessa Malette, inventory manager at Furniture King, in Ontario, Canada, and Ann and Robert Badasci, owners of Lemoore Furniture, Lemoore, Calif., were the recipients of the first ever Lifetime Membership.

Sponsored by Emerald Home Furnishings, every retailer that joined the associations during Market was entered into the raffle.

"Congratulations to the Badasci's and Tessa Malette on their prize of membership for life," said David Beckmann, president of Emerald Home Furnishings. "Emerald is deeply committed to The Home Furnishing Association and the cause it represents. We are very pleased to see the groups grow, not just in size, but also in stature. These associations meet and exceed the expectation of helping to make retailers stronger, by making this industry stronger as well."

The NHFA Member for Life winner, Furniture King, provides customers in Petawawa furniture, home décor and mattress. Ninety percent of their floor is Ashley Furniture.

"When we were at the Vegas show, we just figured we should finally become a member of NHFA," Malette said. "We were very excited and very happy to win the lifetime membership."

Lemoore Furniture was the winner of the WHFA Lifetime Membership. Ten years ago, Ann and Robert purchased the building next door to their hardware store. The business that used to occupy the building had been a furniture store, and having dabbled in selling furniture occasionally at the hardware store, Ann and Robert decided to get back into the furniture business.

"It was great to find out that we won the lifetime membership," said Badasci of Lemoore. "We were ready to leave Market on Wednesday, and Robert told me to go back to the RRC and sign up for the membership then, because if I waited, I wouldn't do it. Then when we got home, and I got the news that we won-it was just so wonderful!"

Lifetime membership winners receive a membership to the WHFA and NHFA for the life of their business. With this membership, they have access the tools and a community of dedicated industry professionals that are a part of the Association.