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December 15,
2011 by in UnCategorized 
By Home Furnishings Business in on December 16, 2011
The director of public relations for
Bob's Discount Furniture was recently recognized with the outstanding citizen award by the Connecticut chapter of the March of Dimes.
Cathy Poulin, Bob's director of PR, was presented the 2011 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Outstanding Corporate Citizen award at the Greater Hartford Signature Chefs Auction.
Chosen as this years honoree, Bob's Discount Furniture has been a longtime supporter of the March of Dimes. For more than 15 years, Bobs Discount Furniture has supported
March of Dimes initiatives, and has donated advertising, public relations, and financial support through its community outreach program.
"I am truly honored to receive this award from an organization that funds so many important programs to help mothers and babies stay healthy, and I look forward to raising more money for them in the future," Poulin said.
The Signature Chefs Auction hosted 270 guests and raised $82,000 to support the March of Dimes mission of stronger, healthier babies.
December 14,
2011 by in UnCategorized
By Aggregated Content in Legal on December 15, 2011
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Macy's has filed a lawsuit to prevent an Irvine company from using the names and logos of Macys legacy brands.
Macys (NYSE: M) filed the trademark suit against Strategic Marks LLC last week in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Strategic Marks operates a website, retrodepartmentstores.com, that has a goal to bring back the old shopping experiences and brands you remember.
On the site, Strategic Marks uses the names and logos of nine department stores, eight of which are owned by Macys, according to the Cincinnati-based retailers lawsuit.
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December 14,
2011 by in UnCategorized
By Home Furnishings Business in Internet on December 15, 2011
Online home furnishings retailer Wayfair is No. 19 nationally on the Top 50 "Best Places to Work" ranking from Glassdoor.com.
Glassdoor.com is an online jobs and career community where employees share candid, anonymous ratings of their current and past employers.
Additional rankings by industry and city showed that Wayfair landed as the No. 3 U.S. retailer and the No. 3 company headquartered in the Boston area. The overall rating for Wayfair showed strong employee satisfaction, landing at 3.8 on a 5-point scale. Nearly 150,000 companies are reviewed on Glassdoor.com and the top 65,000 were considered for the Best Places To Work list.
"After nine years of building a thriving business that offers our employees all types of opportunities, we are delighted to receive this kind of high praise, especially when you consider that thousands of companies were compared and we landed in the Top 20," said Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah. "We hire intelligent, dedicated employees with upbeat personalities and we want to thank them for this honor. They help us to fuel an open culture combining rapid business growth, personal achievement, a strong customer focus, and a lot of fun."
For the 2012 awards, 250,000 reviews posted from Sept. 1, 2010, through Nov. 23, 2011, were evaluated. Employee reviewers were asked to fill out a 20-question survey that included the themes focused on overall employee morale and satisfaction, room for advancement, formal training, work/life balance, and how they rated their CEOs. Shah's approval rating is 98 percent.
"Glassdoor's Employees' Choice Awards recognize stand-out companies that have retained the support and commitment of their employees despite the tough economic climate," said Robert Hohman, co-founder and CEO of Glassdoor. "For companies on this list, we typically get positive feedback on the company culture, benefits and open communication practices, while we also tend to see competitive pay packages and high opinions of the chief executive."
Other companies on the list included: Apple (No. 10), Southwest Airlines (No. 17), J. Crew (No. 24), Procter & Gamble (No. 25), Johnson and Johnson (No. 28), Starbucks (No. 34), NIKE (No. 35), and Groupon (No. 40).
Wayfair now has more than 900 employees and hired as many as 250 in the past year.
December 14,
2011 by in UnCategorized
By Home Furnishings Business in Special Events on December 15, 2011
With its new Product Showcase, the 2012 Home Furnishings Industry Conference, May 6-8 in Palm Springs, aims to provide a powerful opportunity for vendors to show products and services.
The Product Showcase will feature a one-hour "Let's Make a Deal" Product Bonanza. Showcase vendors will have the opportunity to offer a secret special that will only be revealed during the Product Bonanza. Conference attendees will have one hour to shop the event and receive these exclusive deals.
"In my opinion, if you want the opportunity to spend a couple of days in a positive and welcoming business environment, meet leaders in the furniture industry, see whats new in products and services and learn what other retailers are doing to be successful in our challenging environment, then this conference is the right place to be," said Eric Mawyer, vice president of training, Guardian Protection Products. "Guardian, like most companies today, takes an aggressive look every year at what type of short and or long-term financial return on investment is generated by attending these conferences. I can honestly say the long-term impact Guardian will realize on our investment to attend this year's conference will be the best in years."
Along with the time set aside to shop the Product Showcase, manufacturers and vendors will have the chance to work with retailers side-by-side during all conference education and social events.
Manufacturers and vendors are encouraged to sign up early to ensure placement in the Product Showcase. Table tops and 10 x10 booths are available. To reserve booth space, contact Cindi Williams at cwilliams@whfa.org or 916.960.0277.
Registration for the 2012 Home Furnishings Industry Conference is now open on homefurnishingsconference.com.
December 14,
2011 by in UnCategorized
By Home Furnishings Business in Bedding on December 15, 2011
Luxury mattress brand Pure LatexBliss has promoted Mike Quinn to director of operations.
For the past 13 years, Quinn, who will oversee all manufacturing and distribution for the company, has held a number of positions in operations for Latex International.
He joined the company in 1999, working as a lab technician while participating in the cooperative education program at Northeastern University. After graduating in 2002, Quinn worked as team leader in the pressroom, and eventually assumed the role as director of operations for the company's largest foam factory.
"As our production needs and distribution continue to grow at a brisk pace, we felt it was time to have a dedicated operations leader for our organization," said Pure LatexBliss Co-Founder and CEO Kurt Ling. "Our expanded relationship with Latex International presented us with an unprecedented opportunity to find a seasoned executive right in-house to move into this key role for us."
Atlanta-based Pure LatexBliss has recently expanded from one fabrication site and warehouse in Atlanta, to four sites with regional distribution centers in the United Kingdom, France, Phoenix, Miami, Atlanta, Texas and Portland, Ore.