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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.
Summer Market Preview: Dallas 2018
The summer editions of the Total Home & Gift Market (June 20-26) and Lightovation (June 20-23) at Dallas Market Center promise new introductions in furniture, lighting and accessories. See how…
Submissions Open for High Point Market's Fall Market 2018 Design Bloggers Tour
The High Point Market Authority (HPMA) is now accepting submissions from bloggers and social media influencers as well as sponsorships from exhibitors for its Design Bloggers Tour for the 2018 Fall…
Crazy for Selenite
We’re living in a material world. Superficiality may have been the only thing on the Madonna’s mind when she sang about saving herself for boys that save their pennies, but we’re obsessing over home…
Pinterest Pinpoints Hot Summer Entertainment Trends
Whether home is a cozy coastal cottage, rustic southern ranch or sprawling eastern seaboard estate, summertime means socializing, celebrations and style. In advance of the Summer Solstice on June 21…
Having Fun With Email Marketing
It’s said creativity is intelligence having fun. So who’s ready for fun? As the lighting, decor and furnishings industry is home to so many highly creative people, here’s a look at how to channel…
Faux Flowers, Fresh Designs
When designer and IBB Design Fine Furnishings owner Shay Geyer needs a custom floral arrangement, she calls Shane Friesenhahn of The Botanical Mix. When Friesenhahn needed a designer for a new…
ICFA Announces 2018 Lifetime Achievement Recipients
Steve Elton, Chief Brand Curator for Brown Jordan, and Larry Smith, owner of Village Green Home and Garden in Rockford, IL, are recipients of the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the…
4 Design-centric Charities to Support this Upcoming Holiday Season
Based on the Showroom of the Year entries we receive every year, we know our readers are a charitable bunch. Each year, we hear stories from showrooms working to make their local communities better,…
This Isn't Going Well: An Industry Guide to Tariffs and Trade Wars
International trade can best be described as the most convoluted game of Monopoly ever played: Everyone has a few good properties and a few okay properties and they're all just trying to make it…
How to Think Critically About Style Reports
The major markets in Atlanta, Dallas, High Point and Las Vegas make style reporting a focal point of their programming and literature. Market goers can always expect to find some type of style-…