coronavirus
Kingsdown Shifts Production to Health Care Beds
Luxury bedding brand Kingsdown is positioning its mattress production capabilities to manufacture beds for use in health care facilities, temporary health care outposts and treatment facilities…
7 Steps to Safeguard Your Interior Design Business
Have you been watching non-stop news about COVID19? Are you spending your time hunkered down at home, distracting yourself with anything but work? Your interior design business needs you now more…
EJ Victor Shifts Production to PPE in Response to Coronavirus Crisis
EJ Victor CFO/COO David Bennett shared a message on the steps the company is taking in response to the coronavirus crisis, including producing masks, gowns and cots. Below is his message:
"As we are…
HSM Makes Capital Investment to Shift Production to Protective Masks and Gowns
HS Manufacturing, LLC (Hickory Springs), a division of Hickory Springs Manufacturing Company (HSM), and supplier of components for the furniture and bedding industries, has made an emergency capital…
Positioning for the Future...After Coronavirus
I have written and spoken many times about this topic. Today, however, my voice is different. The home building, design and furnishings world has been turned upside down with the coronavirus health…
What Small Business Owners Need to Know About the CARES Act
Social distancing measures and statewide stay-home orders means consumers are staying home and nonessential businesses are being forced to temporarily close. Home furnishings stores and interior…
Associations Petition Pence to Declare Home Furnishings Businesses Essential
On Friday, April 3, the American Home Furnishings Alliance, Home Furnishings Association and International Home Furnishings Representatives Association jointly petitioned Vice President Mike Pence to…
Keeping Business on Course in These Challenging Times
This is not my first time facing challenging times. Not too long ago, we were hit by one of the biggest hurricanes in Puerto Rico’s history. You might remember hearing about Maria. We lost almost…
American Leather Holdings Shifting Manufacturing to PPEs
To assist in the fight against COVID-19, American Leather Holdings, LLC, a Dallas-based furniture manufacturing industry leader that owns manufacturing plants in Dallas County as well as in North…
ALA Provides Update to Members on Government Assistance Programs
The American Lighting Assn. (ALA) provided an update to its members regarding government assistance programs and the ongoing coronavirus crisis.
The assistance programs included in the second and…