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The Perfect Home Book Collection
Each volume of The Perfect Home book collection focuses on one fo the many facets of the home environment ot today. Exquisite photography inspires, stirs creativity, and infuses a sense of harmony and wellbeing. The Perfect Home by Furniture Today Publisher Joseph F. Carroll asks: What aspects of the home are most important to us? How do we furnish our home to make us comfortable and secure? Get the answers to these questions and more. Order yours today: Perfect Home Complete Collection, Best of Style, Celebrity Designer Collections, Living In Style, Making Room for Kids.
Furniture Retailing 101 - Jim Green
I have always believed that a person really doesn’t learn much from success. Don’t get me wrong…I have nothing against success and I have always preferred it to failure. But, I never really learned much from it. When something worked, it just worked. What was there to learn? But, when something failed…really bombed…I certainly learned from that. I definitely discovered what NOT to do. Will Rogers once said, “Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment”. Thomas Edison remarked that, “I found five thousand ways how not to make a light bulb” after so many of his experiments had failed. Then, finally, one experiment succeeded and the electric light was born. Like Edison, when faced with failure a person must learn to look for and examine its causes and then formulate a plan to remedy the problem. This is called active “Learning”. One must then seek out and act in ways that will not result in the same negative outcomes. Speaking from experience, sometimes it is even conceivable for a person to make the same mistake twice.
In making the decision to write this set of books (Complete Set), an interesting question was posed to me. Can a person entering the retail furniture industry really learn about the business by reading about it in a book? Some may believe that a new entrant must actually live it, must experience the business firsthand in order to really ‘get it’. Of course, there is a lot of truth to this. The knowledge and understanding a person gains sure sticks better when it has been lived. In these volumes (Furniture Retailing 101: The Business; Furniture Retailing 101: The Merchandise; Furniture Retailing 101: The Strategic Concepts), I have attempted to offer the next best thing to first hand experience. I have tried to write of ‘second hand’ experiences. The books are intended to provide a foundation, some of the basics of the business, and is not meant to be the definitive source for all knowledge about the furniture industry. It is simply a place to begin learning.
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Furniture Today's Top 100 Furniture Stores - Updated for 2012!
It took a while to get here, but 2011 was the year big retail survivors of the credit crunch and a drawn-out industry recession saw sales momentum building, thanks in part to a vital bedding segment and a group of lifestyle retailers on the march. Furniture, bedding and accessories sales for Furniture/ Today's Top 100 U.S. Furniture Stores increased for the second year in a row - this time by 6.4% to $28.4 billion. What's more, the store count for the Top 100 registered its first increase since a small gain in the 2009 report. The combined store count for this year's companies grew by 1.3%, or 115 units, to 8,684 stores.
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Furniture Today Retail Planning Guide 2013
Furniture Today's 2013 Retail Planning Guide includes our economic analyses of the year that was 2012 and our outlook for 2013. The exclusive issue and report includes: Economic Outlook, E-Intent, Distribution Report, Industry Outlook, On the Water and Rankings.
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Top 15 U.S. Bedding Producers 2012
Furniture Today's ranking of the Top 15 Bedding Producers ranks companies according to 2011 U.S. wholesale bedding shipments. Returns, as well as shipments to Puerto Rico are excluded. Contract shipments are included in figures. Adjustments, including sales allowances and incentives, are also included and are reported in the notes when available.
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Furniture Today's Top 20 Furniture Sources for U.S. Market - 2012
This exclusive report ranks companies according to 2011 furniture shipments to the U.S. Sources on the list must sell into the U.S. market, regardless of whether they have manufacturing, assembling operations or corporate offices in the U.S. Non-furniture and non-manufacturing revenues, such as investment income and retail revenues, are excluded for purposes of the ranking. All figures are for the 12-months ended Dec. 31, 2011 and 2010, unless otherwise indicated.
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