Top Retail Home Suppliers: Double Trouble
Here’s the good news for home furnishings vendors: Your sales can’t be off by triple digits.
State of the Industry 2010
Furniture Awards of Excellence
Amid the 11 million or so square feet of exhibition space at the recent High Point Market were literally thousands of new products. Here are the ones the editors of HFN selected to receive Awards of Excellence this time around..
Housewares Report: Charging Into 2010
Manufacturers of small electrics and personal-care appliances look for sales growth next year
Wall Decor Report: Fresh Looks
New Products in Wall Decor Target Classic or Contemporary Interiors
The Brand Survey 2009
Earth to the home furnishings industry: Marketing and advertising actually do work.
Frame and Album Report: Frames Feel the Love
The frame category has fared far better than most home furnishings businesses this year as most vendors estimate that 2009 business will end modestly up.
Bridal Report: More Brand for the Buck
Brides covet tabletop brands, but products must fill a niche and a need
Home Sour Home
Home may be where the heart is, but it certainly wasn’t where the business was in 2008.
Wall Decor Report: Fresh Looks
New Products in Wall Decor Target Classic or Contemporary Interiors
Housewares Report: Charging Into 2010
Manufacturers of small electrics and personal-care appliances look for sales growth next year
Power 100 | 2010
HFN’s exclusive—and very subjective—Annual Power 100 rankings reflect who’s in the driver’s seat this year ... and who’s merely going along for the ride.
State of the Industry 2009: Home Sour Home
Home may be where the heart is, but it certainly wasn’t where the business was in 2008.
State of the Industry 2008: Bringing Down the House
HFN’s State of the Industry report shows that the industry suffered across the board
State of the Industry 2007
According to HFN’s State of the Industry Report, as housing sales slowed in 2006, furnishings products followed, leading to a smaller uptick than last year
State of the Industry 2006
Rising raw material costs, inflated fuel prices, pricing pressures, manufacturing globalization and private brand infiltration: Put them all together and they add up to a lackluster year for the home business in 2005