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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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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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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BrandSource member Don’s Appliances went outside the industry to find its new vice president of sales, Tim Gales.
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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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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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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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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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Looking to upgrade your company’s office computers or peripherals? Well, there’s good news from AVB and HP.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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