Home sales are slow, and furniture retailers are feeling the pinch. So is this a good time to launch a new furniture empire?
Joe Carron thinks so. He and partner Anand Patel plan to turn a Brandon’s Home Furnishings store in Wellington into a SoHo Living warehouse store.
The pair also has taken over an existing SoHo [...]

Full circle furniture is exactly what the name indicates, a furniture store where each piece was once something else.
Nicole Craig’s computer desk used to be a door. “Everyone’s amazed, it used to be two doors; doors slated for the landfill and given new life,” said Craig.
She gave the desk new life herself with do-it-yourself [...]

Tony Howell kept his eye on Greenville for some time as a potential site for an Ashley Furniture HomeStore. Now that the doors are open for business, his instincts about the city being an ideal market have been confirmed.
The independently owned store that sells the Ashley Furniture Industries brand opened Saturday in the former location [...]

The “Fuorisalone” Furniture Fair Fringe Show from 19th to 22nd April on the NABA Campus Via Darwin 20.
grand opening on Wednesday 18th April at 20.00
NABABOOM will be inaugurated on Wednesday 18th April at 20.00 after the “Dynasty” conference with Nicoletta Morozzi, Lorenza Branzi and La Pina, a meeting that forms part of “Wednesdays at NABA”. [...]

Wickes Furniture Company, Inc., a Sun Capital Investment Company and one of the nation’s largest furniture retailers, has opened two new retail showrooms in California, located in Corona and Beaumont. Each showroom is a spacious 42,000 square feet — the Corona facility is located at 3615 Grand Oaks, while the Beaumont showroom is located at [...]

New ideas demand new products!!! DAYJIUH Industrial has steadily grown and maintained its edge in the international markets despite growing competitive pressures.
DAYJIUH¡¦s Cabinet pulls and knobs integrate with excellent quality and artistic design, such as Antique English designs and a choice of colors. ¡§As long as customers provide us a blueprint, we can turn their [...]

KooKoo Bear Kids, Inc., an online, catalog, and retail store marketer of designer rooms and exceptional gifts, has expanded its line of luxury, designer kid’s furniture and unique gifts with designs by company president, Tara Mediate. Ms. Mediate applies her educational background in design and style expertise to fashion quality children’s furniture, clothing, and gifts.
“After [...]

Black-tie shopping will join dining and dancing at Gala XXII to benefit Decatur General Hospital Foundation.
Partygoers will be able to bid on one-of-a-kind items — the kind that would make extraordinary Christmas gifts — at the Dec. 8 dinner-dance fundraiser at Decatur Country Club. Decatur General Foundation presents the 7 p.m. event.
The list includes original [...]

Furniture sales across the United States and in some parts of the state have become the latest casualty of slowing home sales and rising fuel costs.
The furniture market performed well in early 2006, but retailers — especially stores that sell only furniture — have reported declining sales since late summer.
The furniture industry grew rapidly as [...]

An increasing number of retailers are vying for a slowing furniture market on the Grand Strand and in Brunswick County, N.C.
While furniture sales across the United States have become the latest casualty of of slowing home sales and rising fuel costs, that problem is multiplied for retailers here who are splitting smaller pieces of a [...]