Retail Education
Home furnishings and lighting retailers face many challenges in this ever-changing economy. From new consumer expectations to online competition, today's retailers work hard to ensure their customers have access to on-trend products and great customer service. In this section, you'll find all things retailing — news, features, analysis and tools — needed to make your retail business a success.
Lavish Brings Luxury Home Design To Raleigh, NC
Tucked into an upscale shopping center in North Raleigh, NC, alongside a Fresh Market, restaurants, boutiques and more, is a pretty little home furnishings shop called Lavish. Step inside and the…
Safavieh Home Furnishings to Open SoHo Showroom
Safavieh Home Furnishings announced the grand opening of its newest retail location at 150 Thompson Street in New York City. This 7,500-square-foot showroom will open June 1, 2019 and is located in…
Retail Road Trip: Washington, D.C.
Hudson & Crane
Before anything can be said about Washington, D.C.-based Hudson & Crane, one distinction must be made. Hudson & Crane is an interior design firm with a brick-and-mortar…
3 Strategies for Retail Customer Retention
Customer acquisition is important for any business — the more customers you have, the more products you’ll sell, right? Not necessarily. Even more important, and more cost-effective, than finding new…
Crafting the Connection Through Audience Engagement
As an editor, it’s my job to ask questions and from the insights craft a story that will connect with my audience. That’s in my job description. By trade, I’m a storyteller.
But so are you. As…
Tramo@Home Opens Facility in San Francisco
Tramo@Home, a luxury installation specialist and logistics company specializing in servicing design professionals, today announced the opening of its fourth U.S. facility in South San Francisco.…
U.S. Lighting Manufacturers Find Competitive Edge with Custom Designs
The greatest example of what it means to be American may be hanging in foyers, dining rooms and lighting showrooms across the country in the form of U.S.-made lighting fixtures. Each part — from the…
Custom Capabilities in Uphostery, Casegoods a Competitive Advantage in Luxury Home Design
In the furniture business, the word custom has typically carried a certain connotation, most often used to describe exquisite, bench-built furnishings specified by elite designers for their masters-…
Custom Design, Practicality Bolster Made in the US Home Furnishings
Home Court Advantage
Gat Creek’s Gat Caperton assesses the sustainably harvested Appalachian hardwoods used in its U.S.-made furniture. We’re makers, not middlemen,” says Gat Caperton, CEO of U.S…
How Generation X Consumers Shop for Home Goods and Tips for Capturing Their Business
Generation X may be described as the middle child, caught between Baby Boomers and Millennials, but this generation has plenty of buying power and some unique needs.
For example, Generation Xers —…