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The key to success at High Point Market this week is not traffic | Bill McLoughlin
It’s High Point Market week, and before the market officially opens on tomorrow there will be plenty of talk about traffic.
One High Point Market trend you’ll miss if you look too closely | Bill McLoughlin
The good news is the depth and breadth of new products on display is expected to be among the largest in years ...
Are Barbie, Beyonce and Taylor Swift killing the furniture business? | Bill McLoughlin
There’s been ample evidence over the past two years that consumers have been reallocating discretionary spending away from their homes and toward ...
Time for a reset? Increasingly complex challenges put premium on change management | Bill McLoughlin
Hopeful. It has replaced “cautiously optimistic” as the description of choice for business leaders trying to describe their assessment of what remains of 2023 and beyond. The recession that was predicted for the first half of the year has so far failed to materialize. However, after disappearing from news analyses and pundit predictions over the […]
Premarket ‘barometer’ charts industry’s competitive activity | Bill McLoughlin
For the second consecutive year, High Point Premarket will see more than 110 companies open their showrooms to visiting retailers.
Doesn’t anybody file Chapter 11 anymore? | Bill McLoughlin
It is not surprising then that some companies would fall before this economic onslaught. What is surprising is the stunning rapidity with which ...
The future is closer than you think | Bill McLoughlin
The most uncomfortable response I get when speaking to most any CEO typically centers around predictions about the future. Yet, sitting in that seat and performing that job invariably requires some ability to see into the metaphorical crystal ball. On any given day, the act of guiding a company requires dozens of assessments about an […]
Why PE is the furniture industry’s four-letter word | Bill McLoughlin
In the aftermath of Klaussner’s sudden shutdown, social media is full of commentary blaming the once-venerable company’s demise on its private-equity ownership.