August 26,
2025 by Karen Parrish in Business Strategy, Industry 
Seldens Designer Home Furnishings, a fourth-generation Puget Sound retailer, has purchased longtime Bellevue retailer Schoenfeld Interiors and plans to relocate to the 11555 Northup Way showroom in September. As part of the acquisition, Seldens is working with owner Bob Schoenfeld, who is retiring, to ensure a smooth transition for clients. Seldens will handle the delivery of remaining Schoenfeld client orders and refresh the space in preparation for the Seldens Bellevue reopening this fall.
August 26,
2025 by Karen Parrish in Business Strategy, Industry
King Koil said that it more than doubled the number of retailer visits to its showroom at the recent Summer Las Vegas Market over last year, citing dealers looking for higher margin luxury product and interest in the brand’s new Drew & Jonathan Home by King Koil and Scott Living by King Koil mattress collections.
August 26,
2025 by Karen Parrish in Business Strategy, Industry
Inhabitr, the world's first AI-powered, end-to-end commercial real estate (CRE) furnishing solution, announces an expansion to its furniture financing program, after successful pilot programs with PACIFIC 19 Kona and other hospitality clients.
August 26,
2025 by Karen Parrish in Business Strategy, Industry
Nauta, the AI-powered logistics orchestration platform for importers, today announced $7 million in seed funding led by Construct Capital and Predictive. Nauta is positioned to transform global logistics for stakeholders across the value chain with AI, starting with importers. Global logistics faces rising complexity from supply chain reorientation and fragmentation, tariff volatility, and climate-related disruptions. Despite trillions of dollars in goods moving each year, importers still rely on emails, spreadsheets, and siloed, legacy systems to track and manage intermodal, global shipments at the container level, leaving them without the control that is now made possible with AI.
August 26,
2025 by Karen Parrish in Business Strategy, Industry
The 5th Last Mile Delivery Conference & Expo is the annual meeting where last‑mile deals get made. The Conference & Expo will take place in Las Vegas Oct. 16-17. The event is designed to bring together academia, industry, e-commerce, retailers, transit and fleet operators, insurers, and legislatures to discuss the progress to date of parcel delivery technologies, their plans for last-mile delivery, and to address the challenges related to required support structure, warehouse locations, and effects of these disruptive technologies on delivery, warehousing and customer service.