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The Perfect Home Book Collection - Joe Carroll

Each volume of The Perfect Home book collection focuses on one of the many facets of the home environment today. Exquisite photography inspires, stirs creativity, and infuses a sense of harmony and well being. 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.

Furniture Retailing 101: The Complete Series
Furniture Retailing 101: The Business
Furniture Retailing 101: The Merchandise
Furniture Retailing 101: The Strategic Concepts

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2013 Retail Giants of Bedding
Furniture/Today's special bedding issue highlights three retail giants of bedding. The 2012 winners of this award are Portland-based BedMart, Coon Rapids, Minn.-based HOM Furniture and Houston-based Gallery Furniture. Aside from our awards for the Retail Giants of Bedding, this bedding supplement features an eclectic mix of topics. Here are some of the features: Sleep Doctor Michael Breus introduces variations on latex theme; Leggett & Plat reveals new sex and sleep issue research; bedding producers weigh in on consolidation issues; Cardi’s Furniture & Mattress adds a new line; an overview of mattress vendors at the Nationwide show; The Better Sleep Council's view on sleep deprivation; ISPA Conference overview; and an overview of bedding newcomers to the High Point Market. details >>

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. details >>

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. details >>

Furniture Today's Beyond the Top 100 - 2011 Furniture/Today's exclusive report, Beyond the Top 100, lists 100 independent furniture stores that are significant players in their respective markets. This list is by no means comprehensive. Many more than the 100 furniture stores listed here are strong retailers within their communities. This survey does not rank companies, nor is it a continuation of the Top 100 U.S. Furniture Stores, which published in the May 23, 2011 issue. details >>

Furniture Today - The List 2012
The List includes all of Furniture Today's 2012 exclusive rankings, including both retailer and manufacturer rankings. Rankings include the Top 100 US Furniture Stores, Fastest growing Top 100 Furniture Stores, Beyond the Top 100, Top 25 US Furniture and Bedding Retailers, Top 25 Bedding Retailers, Top 20 Sources for the US Furniture Market and Top 15 US Bedding Producers.
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Furniture Today's Top 100 Furniture Stores - Updated for 2013!
Furniture/Today's Top 100 U.S. Furniture Stores posted a 9.9% increase in furniture, bedding and accessories sales last year as the big continued to get bigger, gobbling up market share in the midst of a slowly improving economic climate.
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