Consumer Insights
Lighting Consumer Research: Illuminating Changes
Your grandpa did business without the internet, but can you? A recent study by The NPD Group’s Checkout E-commerce Tracking service says the lighting industry’s days of poo-pooing the power of e-…
Furniture Consumer Research: Mind the Gap
To get a better read on the buying public’s mindset heading into the new year, the Furniture, Lighting & Decor research team surveyed consumers across the country about what matters to them in…
What 2018 Taught Us About Consumers and Amazon
For the last five years, marketing firm Walker Sands Communications has been tracking retail data and producing an annual Future of Retail report to understand how the retail landscape is changing.…
2019 Winter Market Preview: Lightovation
These debuting products will start the year off right at Lightovation at Dallas Market Center.
Mesmerizingly asymmetrical with a Mid-Century Modern flair, Skye from the Lisa McDennon Collection…
What Luxury Loyalists Want — And Interior Designers Need to Know
In the December issue of Furniture, Lighting & Decor, we introduced you to the new aristocracy in our Consumer Snapshot department. This demographic includes both older Millennials and young Gen…
The Young and the Extremely Wealthy
All Millennials live in their parents’ basements and eat avocado toast, right? If you could see the basements these Millennials have, you might consider living in their basements instead.
Meet the…
Holiday Spending: A Cautiously Optimistic Outlook
Out with the jack-o-lanterns, in with the snowmen. The season of giving starts this month, and research shows that consumers plan to give — a lot.
Coresight Research’s latest projections show growth…
Alexa, Do You Know About My Business?
In July, digital knowledge platform Yext announced it would be submitting business listings directly to Amazon’s voice assistant, Alexa. Yext, which manages business information (think business names…
What Sofas-in-a-Box Actually Feel and Look Like
After almost two years and hundreds (okay probably tens) of couches sat on, I consider myself to be a couch connoisseur, maybe even a bit of a couch snob.
You see, I have a lot of demands for my…
The Suite Solution
In the Tampa Bay area of Florida, affordable housing may be difficult to find, but plenty of pools have their own homes. As a general contractor and President and founder of Goldsborough Company in…