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By Aggregated Content in Business Strategy on March 12, 2013
from http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/03/12/2744299/furniture-logistics-company-to.html
A furniture and logistics company says it will expand its High Point plant, creating 188 jobs and investing $9.25 million over the next five years.
Gov. Pat McCrory's office announced Tuesday that the project will allow OFS Brands to consolidate its four different operations under one roof. The company currently employs more than 190 people in North Carolina.
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from http://pursuitist.com/design-to-life-qa-with-interior-design-firm-soucie-horner/
Shea Soucie is a master at blending work and play. At Soucie Horner, a full-service Chicago-based luxury interior architecture and design firm, Ms. Soucie's strengths lie in the architectural integration of the design process and transforming clients' wishes into definable space.
Coming from a land-developing background (her father was a contractor), the decision to study design and architecture was natural. After studying at the Art Institute and in Paris at L'Ecole Speciale d'Architecture, Ms. Soucie was partner at a Chicago-based design firm before she broke off to create Soucie Horner in 2000 with fellow Art Institute alumnus, Martin Horner.
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By Aggregated Content in Furniture Retailing on March 12, 2013
from http://designwire.interiordesign.net/industry/18637/10-qs-with-suzanne-rheinstein
With her irresistible Southern charm, impeccable taste and reverence for the past, interior designer Suzanne Rheinstein's furnishings and home accessories store, Hollyhock, is a mecca for Los Angeles-based designers.
Her first book, At Home: A Style For Today with Things From the Past, is a bestseller, a second tome is in the works, and her fabric collection for Lee Jofa has been a huge hit. Is there anything the intrepid designer can't do? Here, Rheinstein offers her take on pleasing the new guard, designing the California way, and the secret to keeping design relevant for the long haul.
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from https://newsdesk4.moreover.com/click/?p=Qy84MzUyOTgyNDgwJm49TkFQQ08&a=MTM2NDY3NTgxMDA&f=TmV3cw&s=cmljaHhtbA&u=YWNyZW5zaGF3QG5hcGNvLmNvbQ&c=TkFQQ08&i=MA&e=V29ybGQgSW50ZXJpb3IgRGVzaWduIE5ldHdvcms&d=1989&t=1
was the central question of our latest seminar held at Strata Tiles. But it wasn't the only one that came up in a wide-ranging debate that also asked: What do clients expect ('more') and for how much ('less')? And do clients, not to mention the country as...
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from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/courtney-price/top-design-highlights-fro_b_2856381.html?utm_hp_ref=los-angeles&ir=Los%20Angeles
Last week I attended the third annual Design Bloggers Conference (DBC) in L.A. The lure of a star-studded speaker line up, networking with fellow bloggers and L.A. design showrooms brought almost 400 bloggers to Universal City for an action-packed few days.
DBC's creator Adam Japko is the same Adam Japko of WineZag so return attendees knew to expect the surprise wine tasting at some point throughout the two days. So who was in the speaker line up?
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