Taking this year’s show themes to heart, BrandSource member Bill Canham of Canham Maytag Home Appliance Center in Norfolk, Neb., is doubling down on the group’s products and services to great effect.
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When it comes to online content, I am a firm believer in putting the work in for a better long-term result.
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There are two reasons why retailers chose not to.
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Indeed, as independent retailers, the foundation of many (if not most) of our group’s member companies were quite literally built by our forefathers.
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This Father’s Day weekend, YSN begins a three-part salute to all the Dads out there, working selflessly to impart a lifetime of knowledge and skills to the next generation, so they too can enjoy the rewards of entrepreneurship and continue the family legacy.
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For the first 15 years of my career, I dealt mostly with service issues and staff issues. This one always stuck with me because it was the last time this type of problem ever happened.
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BrandSource’s Canadian affiliate Mega Group has been recognized as a Platinum Club Member of Canada’s Best Managed Companies program for its 14th consecutive year.
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Bosch home appliances received the 2021 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy and is proud to manufacture ENERGY STAR-certified appliances that improve energy efficiency and lower consumers’ carbon footprints.
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The worst of the COVID crisis may be over, but BrandSource members remind us that the increase in fraudulent purchases that some had witnessed during the pandemic has yet to subside.
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As we enter year two of the coronavirus, we think it’s worth recalling FurnitureToday’s recent account of how two upholstery manufacturers faced the pandemic’s labor and supply-chain challenges head on.
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For many if not most BrandSource members, the 13-month-long pandemic has sapped some degree of employee morale.
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Amazon.com may be muscling into the appliance installation and furniture assembly business.
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No party is complete without cake and ice cream! Watch for a YSN exclusive on Monday:“John Horst at 80: For
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Many people consider all social media content to live fast and die young. Post it today and by tonight it’s forgotten. Well reader, if that’s true then please explain all the embarrassing photos of me that seem to surface before every class reunion. I am dropping in today to help shake that single use, post-and-ghost way of thinking out of your brand’s voice on social media.
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All the months of planning have led to this day: the first day of Summit 21. Normally I would be waking up in a room at some grand hotel in a faraway location. But in times such as these, arising to change is the name of the game.
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The headline on Pam Danziger’s Forbes piece makes it sound like it’s all over for independent home furnishings stores, or that it will be over soon enough: “Independent Home Furnishings Retailers Are Losing. Only the Big and Virtual Will Survive.”
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YSN columnist Rich Lindblom’s essay on complacency (see “The No. 1 Reason Stores Fail”) struck a chord with this BrandSource member, who responded with the following comments. He asked that he remain anonymous.
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One of this year’s newest BrandSource members comes to us from Leitchfield, Ky.
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We’ve got two important notices for BrandSource’s servicing dealers. One pertains to Summit; the other, a show of support for two fellow members.
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This is a story of everything that can go wrong going wrong.
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