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The Canadian Home Furnishings Market
The Canadian Home Furnishings Market, the highly anticipated annual get-together for industry professionals, is all set for January 12 to 15, 2008, at the International Centre in Mississauga, near Toronto. Some 400 Canadian and international manufacturers, distributors and exhibitors featured in more than 70 permanent and outside showrooms, will launch their new products for 2008.
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MILAN (Thomson Financial) – Furniture maker Rosss SpA plans to float about 40 pct of its capital on the Expandi market of the Milan stock exchange in the first months of 2008 to fund acquisitions, daily Il Sole 24 Ore said, citing finance chief Simone Bettini.
‘The bourse will give us resources to make a first acquisition right away,’ Bettini was quoted as saying.
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Furniture Outlets USA and Grand Home Furnishings Plan to Improve Distribution and Productivity With RedPrairie Warehouse Management Solution
MILWAUKEE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–RedPrairie Corporation, a leading consumer driven optimization company, announced today that Furniture Outlets USA and Grand Home Furnishings have selected RedPrairie Warehouse Management Solution (WMS) to improve inventory accuracy, labor productivity and decrease overall distribution costs. Furniture Outlets USA, based in South Dakota, operates 24 carpet and furniture stores in four states; and Grand Home Furnishings, based in Virginia, is one of the largest furniture chains in the South.
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RedPrairie Corporation, a leading consumer driven optimization company, announced that Furniture Outlets USA and Grand Home Furnishings have selected RedPrairie Warehouse Management Solution (WMS) to improve inventory accuracy, labor productivity and decrease overall distribution costs. Furniture Outlets USA, based in South Dakota, operates 24 carpet and furniture stores in four states; and Grand Home Furnishings, based in Virginia, is one of the largest furniture chains in the South.
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DENVER–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Furniture Row® Companies is pleased to announce the grand opening of a new Furniture Row® Shopping Center in Tyler. The Center will contain four specialty furniture stores in one convenient location. The Center is located at 2929 S SW Loop 323, Tyler, TX 75701, on Southwest Loop 323 – across from Tyler Ford. The Center’s retail stores include Oak Express®, Bedroom Expressions®, Sofa Mart® and Denver Mattress Company®. The new Center will open Saturday, November 23, and store hours are Mon-Sat 10 a.m. – 9 p.m. and Sun 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
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MARTINSVILLE, Va., (PRIME NEWSWIRE) — Hooker Furniture Corporation (Nasdaq:HOFT) will present results for its third quarter of fiscal 2008, encompassing the period from July 30, 2007 to October 28, 2007, via teleconference and live internet web cast on Thursday morning, December 6, 2007 at 9:00 AM Eastern Standard Time. The dial-in number for domestic callers is 877-591-4956, and 719-325-4860 is the number for international callers.
Due to a change in Hooker Furniture’s fiscal year, the Company’s 2008 fiscal year began January 29, 2007 and will end February 3, 2008. The Company will compare its operating results for the thirteen-week third quarter of fiscal year 2008 with the 2006 three-month fourth quarter that ended November 30, 2006.
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TAMMY JUDD
Seward furniture maker Lael Ki Gordon has been named among 13 recipients of a 2007 Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Project Awards.
Gordon has won $3,440, which he will use to buy equipment.
“You have to be specific about what you’re going to spend the money on since it’s a project award,” Gordon said.
While attending the Inside Passage School of Fine Woodworking in Robert’s Creek, B.C., he created a cabinet using a veneering technique called prismatic parquet.
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HOM Furniture, headquartered in Coon Rapids, MN announced that it will be opening its 12th showroom at 3701Division Street in St. Cloud.
This new HOM Showroom is scheduled to open during the 1st quarter of 2008.
The new showroom will be managed by Tim Knudson, who has over 20 years of furniture and retail experience, including 13 years at HOM Furniture.
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PROFITsystems, Inc. announced the introduction of remote hosting to its services for furniture and home goods retailers. The company has designed and engineered a sophisticated remote hosting network for it clients, according to Jeff Niskern, president. PROFITon-demand began rolling out to clients nationwide last month.
As a remote hosting tool, the company says, PROFITon-demand is unmatched in reliability, which includes 24-hour monitoring and maintenance by IT specialists and network engineers. The new service boasts a state-of-the-art data center for high-speed data transfer and consistency, and managed firewall hardware for rock-solid, vaulted data security.
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Furniture and accessories manufacturers from Cebu are optimistic of penetrating the Russian market.
A 10-member delegation from Cebu went to Moscow recently on a study mission to penetrate the Russian market through the biggest furniture exhibition in Russia and Eastern Europe.
Eric Vincent Casas, president of the Cebu Furniture Industries Association Inc., said their visit, which was joined by six-member companies, was aimed at helping hone a specific strategy that would expand sales of Philippine furniture in the multimillion dollar Russian market through the Mebel Furniture 2007 furniture exhibition.
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