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June 20,
2012 by in UnCategorized 
By Home Furnishings Business in Social Media on June 21, 2012
High Point Furniture Market and its Style Spotters program have won the Excite Award for Best Use of Social Media.
The Market was honored at this week's Expo Magazines Next Conference in Baltimore. The Excite Awards celebrate excellence and innovation in trade shows and events, and the winners will be profiled in the July issue of Expo Magazine. All winners and finalist can be found at the Awards Web site.
At each High Point Market, the Style Spotters program names home fashion trendsetters who showcase their favorite products and top trends from Market exhibitors on Pinterest, a Web site that lets users organize and share photos on virtual pinboards. The Spotters also present selected exhibitors with signs that highlight the Style Spotters name, as well as a QR code and URL for the Market Pinterest board. Market attendees also participate by voting on the pinboards and products, generating likes or re-pinning.
The High Point Market has received international recognition for the Style Spotters and has been named one of the top brands using Pinterest. Social media and branding experts such as Blogworld, Hubspot, Social Media Today, Likable Media, eModeration, and FrontLine touted the Markets Style Spotters program as a unique way to take advantage of brand building on Pinterest.
We are thrilled to receive this recognition for the High Point Market and for the Style Spotters, said Cheminne Taylor-Smith, vice president of marketing for the High Point Market Authority. The Style Spotters program, and our entire social media strategy, is in place to increase brand awareness, to build a community within the home furnishings world, to provide customer service and respond to feedback, and to quickly circulate information about the Market. Weve achieved all that and more with the popular Style Spotters, and we have new tools and programs coming up that will add even more value for our exhibitors and for the thousands of buyers and designers who attend the Market.
The Style Spotters program will continue this October, with a new roster of trendsetters announced on July 3. Style Spotters are also promoted on the High Point Markets Facebook page and on Twitter, using the Market hashtag #hpmkt. To discover more about the Style Spotters, go here.
June 20,
2012 by in UnCategorized
By Aggregated Content in Business Strategy on June 21, 2012
from http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?z6700421280&z=1600249512
Fourteen months ago, Townhouse Home Furnishings' world was turned upside down.
It, along with the rest of the community, was devastated by the EF-5 tornado. Two of the company's three buildings were destroyed, putting in doubt the future of the town's largest employer.
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June 19,
2012 by in UnCategorized
By Aggregated Content in Furniture Retailing on June 20, 2012
from http://blog.al.com/live/2012/06/homeless_man_starts_fire_behin.html
Mobile firefighters were called to a blaze behind a Dauphin Street furniture store in Mobile, Ala., early Wednesday morning.
The fire, believed to have been started by a homeless man, was reported at 3:35 a.m. behind Hoffman Furniture, according to the Mobile Fire-Rescue Department.
When firefighters arrived they discovered a small fire on the exterior wall and door frame at the rear of the building. The interior of the building was not burned, but there was smoke damage inside the store.
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June 19,
2012 by in UnCategorized
By Aggregated Content in Internet on June 20, 2012
from http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/2012/06/19/z-gallerie-deploys-ipads-in-stores-for-simpler-furniture-shopping
Home decor retail chain Z Gallerie is using iPad devices to support in-store sales staff and enhance the overall shopping experience. The iPads serve as a central controller with visibility to all of the merchants access points.
The iPads are a mobile, portable solution for salespeople to deliver a better, more personalized customer experience, said Don Meyer, senior manager of product marketing at Aruba Networks, Sunnyvale, Calif. Equipped with iPads, the Z Gallerie salespeople can provide customers with additional product details, competitive shopping information, etc., about the products of interest right on the showroom floor, he said.
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June 19,
2012 by in UnCategorized
By Aggregated Content in Case Goods on June 20, 2012
from http://www.toledoblade.com/Retail/2012/06/20/2012-profit-at-La-Z-Boy-triples-to-88-million.html
Spurred by a 3.8 percent increase in sales, the benefit of an extra week in its fiscal year, and a 9 percent increase in sales at its company-owned furniture stores, Michigan furniture maker La-Z-Boy Inc. said its 2012 fiscal year profit more than tripled to $88 million.
The profit equalled $1.64 a share and was a 266 percent increase over fiscal 2011, when the company had a profit of $24 million, or 45 cents a share. La-Z-Boy, famed for its line of recliner chairs, had sales
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