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Market: More chatter, more movement and more normal | Sheila Long O’Mara
“Normal? That’s just a setting on a dryer.” While I’m hesitant to use the word when it comes to business or people or life, as we marched up to the starting line of the fall High Point Market, that word keeps coming to mind.
Why are we at High Point Market? | Jerry Epperson
Has this year zoomed by! It is already October, and to us furniture brethren, that means going to High Point and planning for an exciting entirely new year.
Furniture retailers, manufacturers investing for growth, not recession | Bill McLoughlin
The cover story of this issue looks at the industry’s plans for investment in 2023, and one thing is immediately clear: The name of the game is growth. This is not a time for retrenchment, standing pat or looking to just hold on to what you have. Across the board, retailers and manufacturers are investing […]
Profitability and a right-sized balance sheet is the name of the game | Bo Stump
We are optimistic on many fronts about the U.S. economy and the near- and longer-term views for our industry.
Market expectations in a historical perspective | Mike Root
The past several years have whipsawed our industry so much: From no demand for products due to COVID shutdowns, to an extraordinary scramble to find anything to sell to the starving consumers, and now back to having little demand for new purchases while warehouses empty out. With consumer prices at all time highs and earning […]
A look at cleaner sleep goes to ‘guts’ of the mattress | Sheila Long O’Mara
When we reviewed the list of products being shown in High Point, one trend bubbled to the top: eco-friendly and natural goods.
Please join Furniture Today and IFDA for a ‘Night of Luminaries’ | Bill McLoughlin
On Wednesday, Nov. 9, the Carolinas Chapter of the International Furnishings and Design Assn., will recognize Furniture Today, its iconic founder Stephen Pond and ...
Going public? ‘Must love misery’ | Jerry Epperson
Were you surprised at the unsolicited offer from CSC Generation to acquire Flexsteel for about $20-plus per share? I wasn’t, not really.