Denver Mattress Company Campaign Supports Rescue Missions

November 2nd, 2006

Denver Mattress Company’s annual charity alliance with over forty Rescue Missions throughout the U.S will be a welcome relief to the homeless and hungry this holiday season.
Denver Mattress Company will launch an in-store campaign designed to raise funds specifically for the Missions in cities where the retailer operates. The campaign will raise a combined total [...]

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Luxury Consumer Confidence Recovers at End of Third Quarter

November 2nd, 2006

Luxury consumers’ confidence rose at the close of the third quarter, as measured by Unity Marketing’s Luxury Consumption Index which reached 103.3 points, up from 99.2 at the end of second quarter. But luxury consumers’ spending on luxury didn’t match their rise in confidence. This according to the latest result of Unity Marketing’s Luxury Tracking [...]

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U.S. office furniture Sept orders up 6 pct

November 2nd, 2006

CHICAGO - U.S. office furniture order growth accelerated again in September after months of highly erratic growth, which analysts described as a further sign the market is slowing.
Industry orders rose 6 percent over September 2005 to $1 billion, the Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association (BIFMA) said.
This follows months of erratic growth going all the [...]

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Art Van Furniture Offers Exclusive Discount for AAA Michigan Members

November 2nd, 2006

Art Van Furniture - Michigan’s leading provider of home furnishings - is doing more for AAA members. In fact, 1.7 million AAA members in Michigan are now eligible to receive special savings on select Art Van merchandise - all part of AAA’s Show Your Card & Save® program.
The 13-year-old program entitles AAA members to discounts [...]

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Renovated La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries® Store Opens In Spokane, WA

November 2nd, 2006

La-Z-Boy, a leading manufacturer of upholstered furniture, has announced the reopening of a La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries® store in Spokane, Wash., located at 10205 N. Division. The store was renovated to boast the design-focused format of the company’s “new generation” stores, which help customers in every step of their furniture shopping experience.
The newly remodeled 15,300 square-foot [...]

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Jennifer Convertibles Agreement to Open Three Ashley Furniture HomeStores in New York

November 1st, 2006

Harley J. Greenfield, Chief Executive Officer of Jennifer said, “We believe this is an extraordinary opportunity for Jennifer. We should be able to capitalize on our back office infrastructure and our advertising expertise in our core market. Opening of these licensed HomeStores, which are approximately ten times the size of a typical Jennifer Convertibles [...]

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Eurospan to step up sales to smaller furniture retailers

November 1st, 2006

Integrated wood-based furniture manufacturer Eurospan Holdings Bhd will be stepping up efforts to increase sales to smaller furniture retailers as compared to the larger wholesalers.
Eurospan managing director Guan Kok Beng said it would place greater emphasis on smaller European retailers.
“We will still maintain our businesses with our furniture wholesale counterparts in countries like Japan and [...]

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Furniture maker Eurospan to tap mart for smaller buyers

November 1st, 2006

RUBBERWOOD furniture maker Eurospan Holdings Bhd (EHB) will continue to maintain its traditional export markets for furniture such as Europe, the UK, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, while penetrating new markets this year.
Chairman and managing director Guan Kok Beng said the Penang-based group will also be selling more of its products to furniture retailers rather [...]

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Luxury Italian furniture maker Poltrona Frau launches IPO

November 1st, 2006

MILAN, Italy Poltrona Frau SpA CEO Giuliano Mosconi said the luxury Italian furniture maker intends to use money raised from its initial public offer launched Monday to finance new products, stores and marketing around the world.
Poltrona Frau expects to raise up to €88 million (US$111.9 million) by selling 35 percent of the company’s shares on [...]

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European Office Furniture Not Just B2C, Prime Office Furniture Also Sells B2B to Furniture Distributors and Retailers

November 1st, 2006

As a recognized online vendor of distinctive European office furniture, Prime Office Furnituredoesn’t just sell high quality furniture at factory-direct prices to small-to-midsize business consumers only. Prime Office Furniture welcomes business-to-business alliances that benefit furniture vendors by giving them unique office furniture at wholesale prices to sell to customers at an advantageous retail price for [...]

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