November 7,
2013 by in Business Strategy, Furniture Retailing, Industry 
Furniture retailer American Furniture Warehouse, which had plans to build a store in Colorado Springs, Colo., appears to be ditching those plans. The 35-acre tract is now on the real estate market.
November 6,
2013 by in Business Strategy, Industry
A High Point furniture company is preparing to shut its doors after nearly 50 years in business.
November 1,
2013 by in Business Strategy, Industry
New details about a proposed economic development project suggest that United Furniture Industries may be expanding once again.
October 30,
2013 by in Business Strategy, Furniture Retailing, Industry, Retail Closing
Sears Canada is closing five of its stores, including its Toronto flagship, as part of a $400-million deal. The retailer plans to sell leases of the five stores to a mall operator.
October 30,
2013 by in Business Strategy, Furniture Retailing, Industry
Home furnishings retailer Restoration Hardware will open a $22 million, 865,000-square-foot distribution and call center in Grand Prairie, Texas, today. The facility will serve as the company's Southwest regional distribution hub and fulfillment center.
October 29,
2013 by in Business Strategy, Furniture Retailing, Industry
Target announced Monday that it will open 33 more stores in Canada next month, bringing the total number of Canadian stores opened this year to 124.
October 28,
2013 by in Business Strategy, Industry
There is the RH catalog or "source book," thicker than the September issue of Vogue. There is the hillside home in Belvedere, where everything is beautiful, symmetrical and in pairs - right down to the framed pictures of twin daughters. Then there is the man behind the catalog and home, Restoration Hardware's poster boy and creative force himself, Gary Friedman, 56, in a T-shirt, artfully distressed jeans, belt, boots and leather wristbands.