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 29,
        2013   by   in Bedding, Industry, Licensing, Product   
  
        
    
    Bedding vendor Spring Air International has signed a license agreement with SBI Mattress of Springfield, Ill., to make and market its Back Supporter and Sleep Sense bedding brands throughout the state.
    
        
    
    
 
    
    
    
        October 28,
        2013   by   in Bedding, Industry, POP (Point of Purchase Material), Product   
  
        
    
    
Bedding vendor Kingsdown's Blu-Tek point-of-purchase headboard display has taken gold in the 2013 Design of the Times Awards.
    
        
    
    
 
    
    
    
        October 28,
        2013   by   in Furniture Retailing, Industry, Licensing   
  
        
    
     
The Sofia Vergara furniture collection has arrived at retailer Rooms To Go. 
    
        
    
    
 
    
    
    
        October 28,
        2013   by   in Executive Changes, Industry   
  
        
    
    
Brad Swaggerty has joined case goods supplier Allan Copley Designs as manager of business development.
 
    
        
    
    
 
    
    
    
        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.