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October 3,
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By Home Furnishings Business in Business Strategy on October 4, 2012
Home furnishings network Next Generation-Now will host a Chatter Over Cocktails reception at High Point Furniture Market.
The networking session is set for Saturday, Oct. 13, 6-8 p.m. in Market Square, showroom 272, and will feature an Ignite Session. Designed to generate awareness, stimulate thought and create action on a subject, Ignite Sessions will offer a fast-paced and exciting way for attendees to engage.
The Ignite Sessions will focus on "Leveraging Technology to Grow Your Business," and feature experts from Best Buy for Business, FurnitureDealer.net, PROFITsystems, and R&A Marketing. Attendees will then attend five-minute presentations by the experts. After 20 minutes, they will share their biggest takeaways, and how they plan to use the ideas from the exchange in their individual businesses.
The Ignite Sessions gives NGN members an opportunity to learn from the experts and from each other, said Advisory Committee member, Alex Macias. It will add another level of education to our already great networking events. And since the event is for two hours, there will be plenty of time to learn and network with each other.
The Next Generation-Now Chatter over Cocktails is sponsored by Comfortaire, International Market Centers and FurnitureDealer.net. It is a hosted community of the National Home Furnishings Association and Western Home Furnishings Association.
RSVP for the Next Generation-Now event by visiting the groups social site or here.
October 3,
2012 by in UnCategorized
By Home Furnishings Business in Upholstery on October 4, 2012
Upholstered furniture vendor Lazar celebrates its 30th anniversary at the Oct. 13-18 High Point Furniture Market.
Founded by Barry Lazar in Los Angeles in the early '80s, the company expanded east in 1990. Today, Lazar's headquarters are in Siler City, N.C., and it maintains a manufacturing facility in Los Angeles.
Our company has survived and prospered during the last 30 years based on a model of great quality and design at a value price while providing fast delivery, said President Robert Luce. The Lazar product line is very diverse and provides our customers and their consumers with millions of choices for their homes. This is the cornerstone of who we are as company.
Lazar will display new products at October Market in its completely renovated showroom, space D817 of the International Home Furnishings Center's Design wing.
October 3,
2012 by in UnCategorized
By Home Furnishings Business in Green on October 4, 2012
A mattress recycling program developed by students from Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., has won the Enactus World Cup.
Enactus is the new name for an organization formerly called Students in Free Enterprise or SIFE. The Enactus World Cup is an international competition featuring students who acquire entrepreneurial and leadership skills by creating socially responsible businesses in their communities.
Competing in Washington, D.C., against 38 other Enactus teams from around the world, the Belmont crew won the World Cup Tuesday afternoon.
These students have demonstrated, through their hard work and ingenuity, that it is possible to make a difference in our communities while maintaining sustainable businesses models, said International Sleep Products Association President Ryan Trainer. Their win at the World Cup level will raise awareness of both used mattress recycling and the need for a national mattress recycling program.
Belmont Universitys entry in the competition featured the innovative student-developed Spring Back Recycling enterprise, which is a used mattress recycling program intended both to help the environment and create jobs. Through the program, previously incarcerated workers are taught the skills they need to gain employment at Spring Backs recycling facility, where mattresses are dismantled and their component materials are recycled for use in new products.
Were certainly proud of the students from Belmont University for representing the United States so well and for developing and launching their successful recycling venture, Trainer said. ISPA will continue to support their efforts as they license their approach in other U.S. cities. Proven business models like Spring Back will be invaluable as we advocate for a national mattress recycling program. Operations like this would benefit from important economies of scale possible under a national approach, as opposed to the inefficiencies and added costs that piecemeal, state-based legislation would create.
October 3,
2012 by in UnCategorized
By Home Furnishings Business in on October 4, 2012
Bell'O International and Serta International this week announced that they are teaming to promote an exclusive collection of co-branded metal beds, the Serta Bed Collection by BellO.
The beds, now available, range in price from $349.99 to $599.99.
We are very proud to be part of the expansion of Serta into beds, Howie Cooperstein, President of BellO International, said in a statement.
The Serta Bed Collection by BellO is a natural extension for the Serta brand and will allow retailers to offer consumers a quality, affordable bed to go with their mattresses. Serta has a great reputation for bringing style and comfort to the home and were thrilled to be partnering with them to bring BellOs No Tools Assembly design to our co-branded metal beds.
October 2,
2012 by in UnCategorized
By Home Furnishings Business in Legal on October 3, 2012
The U.S. International Trade Commission is examining possible dumping of hardwood plywood from China.
A group of U.S. plywood suppliers, the Coalition for Fair Trade of Hardwood Plywood, petitioned the ITC Sept. 27. CFTHP includes Columbia Forest Products, Greensboro, N.C.; Commonwealth Plywood Co. Ltd., Whitehall, N.Y.; Murphy Plywood, Eugene, Ore.; Roseburg Forest Products Co., Roseburg, Ore.; States Industries, Eugene, Ore.; and Timber Products Co., Springfield, Ore.
Without an extension, the ITC is due to make a preliminary determination of whether imported Chinese hardwood plywood is damaging the U.S. industry by Nov. 13. Should ITC find so, the case would go to the International Trade Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce, which would conduct any actual antidumping investigation.
The complete text of ITC's Federal Register announcement is here.