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Fly the Friendly Skies of iDeal Furniture

January 20, 2021January 20, 2021 Allyssa Baird

BrandSource dealers often come into their businesses as descendants of a family member who owned or started their companies. Not so Randy Clark of iDeal Furniture of Tacoma, who began his career in the military.

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Welcome Home, Knox Furniture

January 18, 2021January 18, 2021 Andy Kriege

How many businesses can say they have been owned by one family, operated under one name, and served its customers from one location for over 90 years? The short answer … not many!

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BrandSource Members Ready for the Challenges of 2021

January 13, 2021January 15, 2021 YSN Staff

As we shrug off 2020 and embark on the new year, the industry continues to contend with the aftershocks of the COVID economy.

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Gales Heads Sales at Don’s Appliances

January 13, 2021January 13, 2021 Alan Wolf

BrandSource member Don’s Appliances went outside the industry to find its new vice president of sales, Tim Gales.

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Zeglin’s Explains Product Shortages in Local Press

January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 Alan Wolf

BrandSource member Zeglin’s Home TV & Appliance helped explain the appliance industry’s supply-chain squeeze in a new report by the local Quad-City Times newspaper.

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JD Rosella: Who Needs a Hobby When You Love to Go to Work?

January 6, 2021January 6, 2021 Andy Kriege

When the Southeast Region held its annual planning meeting last month in Tunica, Miss., the event was highlighted by a tribute to longtime AVB/BrandSource member and octogenarian JD Rosella.

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Holiday Reflections from Members and Friends, Part III

December 28, 2020December 28, 2020 Andy Kriege

In the spirit of the season, YourSourceNews reached out to members, vendors and affiliated dealers to learn what the holidays means most to them in this most extraordinary year.

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Holiday Reflections from BrandSource and Friends, Part II

December 22, 2020December 23, 2020 Andy Kriege

In the spirit of the season, YourSourceNews reached out to members, vendors and affiliated dealers to learn what the holidays mean to them in this most extraordinary year.

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AVB Members Privy to HP Offers

December 22, 2020December 22, 2020 Alan Wolf

Looking to upgrade your company’s office computers or peripherals? Well, there’s good news from AVB and HP.

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A Time to Count Our Blessings

December 21, 2020December 21, 2020 YSN Staff

In the spirit of the season, YourSourceNews reached out to members, vendors and affiliated dealers to learn what the holidays mean to them in this most extraordinary year.

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AVB Members Share Their COVID Crisis Learnings at Furniture Industry Conference

December 17, 2020December 18, 2020 YSN Staff

For those unfamiliar, FurnitureToday is the preeminent publication of the home furnishings business, and its annual Leadership Conference is a premier event where the industry’s movers and shakers share their insights and outlooks.

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Famous Tate’s 20 Reasons to be Grateful in 2020

December 16, 2020December 16, 2020 Alan Wolf

Each 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.

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Just Tinkering Around, Doing What She Loves

December 14, 2020December 14, 2020 Andy Kriege

One of the first things you notice when you meet Tinker Trombley for the first time is just how genuinely gracious, charming and engaging she is to everyone she meets.

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Appliance Featured Members 

Why Every Retailer Needs a Stephen in Their Lives

December 10, 2020December 11, 2020 Rich Lindblom

Back in the late 1980s our family-owned appliance business had already been around for over 30 years and we had two stores. Maytag had announced yet another reorganization of its sales territories and our store was assigned a new sales rep. When I found out who our new rep was, I was not happy.

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Blast from the Past: When Doing the Laundry Was a Gas

December 10, 2020December 11, 2020 Andy Kriege

We all take it for granted that doing a load of laundry is an almost effortless task. However, in my grandmother’s day, laundry was a full-blown chore. Her traditional day for laundry was Monday. She called it “laundry day” because it took the entire day to knock out a week’s worth of wash for the family of six.

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For the Charitable Grand Foundation, It Was an Especially Busy Year

December 3, 2020December 9, 2020 Allyssa Baird

While BrandSource member Grand Appliance & TV continues to serve communities across four states with the latest and greatest in home goods, its charitable arm, the Grand Foundation, has been exceptionally busy assisting those without the means to shop its stores.

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Big No More, Ed Wernsing’s Back and Better Than Ever

December 3, 2020December 3, 2020 Andy Kriege

It’s hard not to know “Big Ed” Wernsing of Wernsing’s Appliance in Litchfield, Ill. If you are in the same ZIP Code, you cannot miss seeing (or hearing) him, much less mistake him for anyone else.

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Don’s Appliances Shares COVID Safety Guide

October 16, 2020December 2, 2020 Alan Wolf

With COVID-19 sparking up across the country again, the latest good deed from BrandSource member Don’s Appliances couldn’t be timelier.

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New Member Tim Odland Bets Big on Bedding … And Wins

December 2, 2020December 2, 2020 Allyssa Baird

Looking to do some traveling after college, Washington State native Tim Odland moved to Hawaii in 1988 and wound up spending 16 years in Maui.

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Time to Give Thanks, Continued…

November 24, 2020November 24, 2020 Andy Kriege

In the spirit of the Thanksgiving, YourSourceNews reached out to members, vendors and affiliated dealers to find out what they are most thankful for during this extraordinary year. We will be sharing their responses all this week.

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YourSource News is the news and information platform of BrandSource, the leading merchandising organization for independent appliance, home furnishings and consumer tech dealers. Its parent company, AVB, is a $20 billion member-driven co-op that provides merchandising, financing and digital marketing services to nearly 5,000 independent dealers in the U.S. and Canada. BrandSource’s affiliates include ProSource (consumer tech and custom integration); TRIB Group (rent-to-own); Mega Group (Canada); and HFA Buying Source, serving home furnishings dealers nationwide.

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