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From Home Furnishing Business
March 27,
2020 by Laurie Northington in Business Strategy, Designer Weekly, Industry 
The 45th China International Furniture Fair (CIFF Guangzhou) has been rescheduled for July 18 – 21 and the Office Show and CIFM are rescheduled for July 27 – 30.
March 25,
2020 by Jane Chero in Business Strategy, Designer Weekly, Industry
Dallas interior designer Jean Liu is using her Michigan-based outdoor furniture manufacturing plant to assist those on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic by making thousands of surgical masks available to hospitals for free.
March 25,
2020 by Jane Chero in Business Strategy, Designer Weekly, Industry
In compliance with the City of Atlanta Executive Order for residents to shelter in place and non-essential businesses to temporarily close, International Market Centers (IMC) has temporarily closed AmericasMart Atlanta, the Atlanta Convention Center at AmericasMart, and the Atlanta Decorative Arts Center (ADAC) as of 5 p.m., March 24, 2020.
March 25,
2020 by Jane Chero in Business Strategy, Designer Weekly, High Point, Industry, Market
Custom upholstered furniture manufacturer Norwalk Furniture is responding to the needs of its clients, partners and affiliates through a combination of initiatives in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak and the postponement of the High Point Market. The programs include plans to creatively support its customers in new ways, including a variety of virtual initiatives to launch its new product introductions this spring.
March 24,
2020 by Laurie Northington in Business Strategy, Designer Weekly, Industry
The International Casual Furnishings Association (ICFA) has announced that dates for its ICFA Preview Show, July 14 – 16, and Casual Market Chicago, September 22-25, remain unchanged at this time. The leadership team will continue to monitor changing coronavirus conditions.
March 18,
2020 by Jane Chero in Business Strategy, Designer Weekly, High Point, Industry, Market
The High Point Market Authority has announced its new dates for the postponed Spring 2020 High Point Market. Originally scheduled for April 25-29, the postponement was announced last week in light of NC Governor Cooper’s advisement to cancel all events that draw an attendance of 100 or more people due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
March 18,
2020 by Jane Chero in Business Strategy, Designer Weekly, Industry
New York-based luxury brand Peruvian Connection is expanding its core product offering this fall to include original print bedding designed in-house featuring new and archival prints from the brand’s storied history. The Andean weavings and ethnographic textiles of Peru that first inspired Peruvian Connection founder Annie Hurlbut Zander and led her to launch the apparel brand in 1976, continue to tell the brand story in this 15-piece bedding collection.