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February 28,
2010 by in UnCategorized 
By Home Furnishings Business in Furniture Retailing on March 1, 2010
Heavy snow collapsed an overhang at Carulli's Custom Furniture in Lyncourt, N.Y., shattering front windows and causing a partial collapse of the building, The Post-Standard of Syracuse reported Saturday.
No one was inside when the front of the building collapsed.
A nearby pool hall owner said in the report the furniture store's owner had stopped in to play the Lottery and had just left when the front of his building collapsed.
February 28,
2010 by in UnCategorized
By Home Furnishings Business in Furniture Retailing on March 1, 2010
West Coast Furniture Gallery in Sebring, Fla., will close its doors, the Tampa Tribune reported Monday.
Owner Millie Havlock said she's retiring from the furniture business, but will probably continue to work while spending more time with her grandchildren.
Denver-based G.A. Wright Sales Inc. will handle the store closing sale, which began Thursday.
Incentives include a customer contest based on points for visiting the store and for every dollar a person spends. Grand prize is a 26-inch flat screen television. Second prize is a 19-inch flat screen television. Other prizes include a digital camera, portable DVD player and a Garmin GPS system.
February 25,
2010 by in UnCategorized
By Home Furnishings Business in Rugs on February 26, 2010
Rug supplier Company C will host RugMark USA's Faces of Freedom Photography exhibit in its showroom during the Spring High Point Market in April.
The exhibit spotlights child labor and the South Asian Rug Industry. RugMark is a non-profit organization working to end exploitative child labor in South Asia's handmade carpet industry through the GoodWeave certification program. The U.S. fund for UNICEF is the exhibit's national co-sponsor and Company C serves as a regional host for the exhibit.
Faces of Freedom is a nationally traveling photography exhibit. This collection of photographs, taken by documentary photographer U. Roberto Romano in South Asia, depicts both the horrors of child labor and the hopeful faces of children the GoodWeave program has saved from the looms.
Company C has been a GoodWeave member since 2006.
Bringing Faces of Freedom to all of its retail stores shows how committed Company C is to ending child labor in the rug industry, said Nina Smith, executive director of RugMark USA. Not only are they helping rescue children, they are helping us educate consumers about the powerful impact their purchases can have.
By building awareness about child labor in the handmade rug industry and creating a certification system for child-labor-free rugs, RugMark has catalyzed a profound shift in the marketplace. Since 1994, more than 5.5 million carpets bearing the GoodWeave label (and its predecessor, the RugMark label) have been sold in Europe and North America, and the number of South Asian children trapped in illegal and exploitative carpet-making work has dropped from 1 million to 250,000.
Faces of Freedom has been exhibited at more than 20 venues including the Miami International Airport, the World Bank, and the Russell Senate Rotunda. Click
here to view the full collection of images and tour calendar.
February 25,
2010 by in UnCategorized
By Home Furnishings Business in Internet on February 26, 2010
Seattle retailer Schoenfeld Interiors has partnered with Email Broadcast to create a customized e-mail marketing program.
Schoenfeld Interiors, with two stores located in Seattle and Bellevue, Wash., is part of a fifth-generation, family-owned business that has operated in the Pacific Northwest since 1865.
Email Broadcast designed a customized follow-up program that will help turn our visitors into clients using a series of well-designed emails, said Bob Schoenfeld, president of Schoenfeld Interiors. We chose Email Broadcast because we felt that their design work, and experience in the furniture industry would meet the expectations of our discerning clientele.
Ken Mahar, chief executive officer of Email Broadcast, said the company looks to work with market leaders.
"It really challenges us to design a look and a campaign that reflects the standards that a company like Schoenfeld Interiors embodies," Mahar said. "We know that the sort of client that comes to Schoenfeld Interiors will only respond to a world-class email campaign, and we welcome the opportunity to deliver it.
Email Broadcast is a full-service email marketing agency located in Seattle that has provided custom email marketing campaigns since 2000.
February 25,
2010 by in UnCategorized
By Home Furnishings Business in Markets on February 26, 2010
The High Point Market Authority is teaming with a variety of expert speakers to present a series of three educational webinars exclusively for High Point Market Exhibitors. Series topics range from international business opportunities to improving public relations savvy and connecting with interior designers.
The first webinar, set for Wednesday, March, 3,at 2 p.m. (EST) capitalizes on the High Point Market's International Buyer Program status. Aimed at Market exhibitors with an interest in learning more about the export process, the webcast--"Going Global: Navigating the Export Process in the Furniture Industry"--focuses on the ins and outs of exporting.
Speakers include Juanita Harthun, senior international trade specialist, Carolinas, U.S. Export Assistance Center; Nick Orsini, specialist from the U.S. Census Bureau; Kate Bishop, specialist from the Export/Import Bank, Washington, D.C. location; Douglas Bell, specialist from the Bureau of Industry and Security, and Jan Fields, specialist from the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America.
There is no charge to High Point Market exhibitors to attend this event, but registration is required. To register, click here.
The second webinar, "Mastering the Art of Online Press Kits," is set for Thursday, March 4, at 2 p.m. (EST). During this presentation, the High Point Market Authority marketing team will cover the most effective techniques for increasing online exposure among buyers, media and Market attendees. The team will provide an introduction to the High Point Market Online News Center, as well as services available via PR Newswire, the Market's communication partner. Available to High Point Market exhibitors at deeply discounted rates, custom packages of PR Newswire services range from press release distribution to a new, simple-to-use PR Newswire product known as an Exhibitor Information Kit.
To register for this event, click here; or go here and click the Exhibitor Services tab and download the Exhibitor Marketing Kit.
The third webinar, "Doing Volume Business With Designers," is set for Wednesday, March 10,at 2 p.m. (EST) and features Mary Knackstedt, a frequent teacher of continuing education and business courses for professional organizations and universities including Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, as well as a practicing interior designer, acclaimed author and in-demand consultant on interior design practices. During this presentation--created specifically for manufacturers interested in doing more business with interior designers--Knackstedt will share insights drawn from interviews with many of the interior designers she has counseled to help manufacturers adapt to new ways of doing, and growing, business. To register, click here.
"We encourage all exhibitors interested in maximizing their investment in the High Point Market to take advantage of these free, educational opportunities featuring world-class speakers," said High Point Market Authority President and CEO Brian D. Casey.