September 9,
        2014   by   in Furniture Retailing, Industry  
  
        
    
    Six-month-old Interior Define, an online, build-to-order furniture retailer, has is closing in on an additional $1 million in funding for its startup. That funding is in addition to an initial round of about $2.2 million earlier.
    
        
    
    
 
    
    
    
        September 9,
        2014   by   in Industry  
  
        
    
    Jason Phillips, vice president and creative director of The Phillips Collection
 has joined the board of directors of the Bernice Bienenstock Furniture Library in High Point.
    
        
    
    
 
    
    
    
        September 9,
        2014   by   in Industry, Legal  
  
        
    
    Rent-to-own retailer SEI/Aaron's  (NYSE:AAN) has agreed to settle with the Vermont Attorney General for $45,000 to the state of Vermont and $2,000 to each of three consumers whose consumers were remotely monitored for online activity.
    
        
    
    
 
    
    
    
        September 8,
        2014   by   in Economic News, Industry  
  
        
    
    The growth in households over the 12-year period of 2000 to 2012 has been primarily among people making more than $75,000 a year.
    
        
    
    
 
    
    
    
        September 8,
        2014   by   in Community / Charitable Support, Industry  
  
        
    
    Roche Bobois and tennis star Venus Williams joined forces to refurnish the Lotus House shelter for homeless and abused women and children.