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Looking to upgrade your company’s office computers or peripherals? Well, there’s good news from AVB and HP.
Read moreLooking to upgrade your company’s office computers or peripherals? Well, there’s good news from AVB and HP.
Read moreWhile the box stores slug it out for opening-price point volume, premium appliances have largely stayed above the fray.
Read moreIf, as AVB CEO Jim Ristow advises, a good way to tackle the fear that the health crisis evokes is through giving, then BrandSource is fighting back big time.
Read moreNovember was a mixed bag for specialty retailers selling furniture, appliances and consumer electronics.
Read moreEach December BrandSource member Famous Tate holds a companywide meeting to recap the last 12 months and name one employee “Tater of the Year,” the dealer’s highest honor.
Read moreTempur Sealy plans to increase its U.S. pouring capacity for Tempur material and base foam by approximately 50 percent over the next three years.
Read moreThree of the furniture industry’s largest trade shows — the High Point Spring Market and the winter and summer Las Vegas Markets — have been pushed back by weeks next year amid the continuing COVID crisis and related inventory constraints.
Read moreEven before the pandemic, AVB has long preached the need for a compelling digital presence in order to win in the evolving retail marketplace.
Read moreThe fact that quarantined consumers are spending their vacation funds on furniture has hardly been lost on The Home Depot.
Read moreAt this point, the only thing anyone knows with any certainty about furniture availability next year is that the outlook remains uncertain.
Read moreOver 500 state and national trade associations, including the National Retail Federation (NRF), the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, are pressing Congress to restore tax deductibility for business expenses paid with forgivable Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans.
Read moreGE Appliances (GEA) is leveraging the latest information technology and machine learning tools to help make its fulfillment function smarter and more efficient.
Read moreWhile nearly every appliance dealer has faced unprecedented challenges this year, the industry’s frontline servicers have shouldered more than their usual fair share.
Read moreFollowing a successful online transition in August, BrandSource is returning to the Internet for its first major trade event of 2021.
Read moreBest Buy avoided the fate of Circuit City by turning lemons into lemonade.
Read moreElectrolux North America helped make Thanksgiving a little brighter for thousands of Tennesseans last month by donating $150,000 worth of pots, pans and kitchen utensils to United Way of Greater Nashville.
Read moreIn the wake of criticism for issuing Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans to financially viable companies like Shake Shack and the Los Angeles Lakers, and amid suspicion of widespread program abuse and fraud, the Small Business Administration (SBA) is seeking permission to question borrowers who received $2 million or more in PPP loans.
Read moreBrandSource’s forewarnings about the dramatic shift to online shopping were fully realized on Black Friday, when U.S. consumers broke the year-ago record for e-commerce sales.
Read moreAfter years of family values pushback and compounded by the COVID crisis, national chains that once made a point of opening on Thanksgiving remained dark yesterday.
Read moreGiven the kind of year we’ve had, we’re sure you’ll forgive us for fast-forwarding 12 months to November 2021.
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