Recently added articles from Home Accents Today:
Hoot for Hiboux.
Aug 01, 2008 ... Tracy Bulla Owls descend upon the home with a gracious landing and nostalgia-heavy imagery straight from the '70s. Fending off the ...
Home Accents Today welcomes new Retail Advisory Board.
Aug 01, 2008 ... Susan Dickenson, Retail Editor This month we welcome a new group of retailers to Home Accents Today's Retail Advisory Board and offer a big round of applause to our outgoing board members, whose insights, feedback and story ideas during the past few years were surpassed only by ...
Free form.
Aug 01, 2008 ... Lindsey Strader When it comes to shape, silhouette and design, art glass offerings disregard rhyme and reason, opting for ultra-contemporary guideline-free forms. Creativity ...
How to leverage the Web during a slow economy.
Aug 01, 2008 ... Penny Schneck If you have a Web presence, you are already able to leverage a marketing channel that has one of the best returns on investment of any advertising tactic. If you are yet not on the Web, it's time to get on board! In today's economy, marketers are ...
Silk tithes.
Aug 01, 2008 ... By Susan Dickenson Kris Nolan is the founder and CEO of Artistry in Silk, maker of the elaborate silk botanical designs that adorn the Furniture Classics showroom surfaces in Atlanta and High Point. It's an effective pairing of flora and furniture that benefits both ...
Walking on the retail side.
Aug 01, 2008 ... Jenny Heinzen York Wholesaler Moe's Home Collection is opening two new stores this year -- bringing to five its number of retail operations. As I was reading Susan Dickenson's story on this move (see page 10), it occurred to me that this is one of only a handful of ...
Building C opens in Las Vegas World Market Center.
Aug 01, 2008 ... Staff The Las Vegas Market opened its third building late last month during the summer edition of the show. Building C, a 16-story structure with 2.1 million square feet of exhibit space, boosted the WMC's size to 5 million square feet. About 320 new exhibitors ...
Americasmart to combine rug, home furnishings shows.
Aug 01, 2008 ... Staff Americasmart Atlanta has readjusted the schedules of its biannual Gifts and Home Furnishings Show and its International Area Rug Market to co-exist starting in January. Americasmart has in the past overlapped the January and July shows for a few days. ...
Home Accents Today to publish exclusive research in partnership with HGTV.
Aug 01, 2008 ... Staff Home Accents Today and HGTV have teamed up to produce an exclusive report on consumer buying behavior that will be published in the September edition of Home Accents Today. The exclusive consumer data is based on the responses of 3,531 U.S. consumers. Home ...
Area rug, flooring and furniture retailers honored in Atlanta.
Aug 01, 2008 ... Staff Area rug, flooring and furniture retailers were honored in Atlanta during the International Area Rug Market's Retailer of the Year Awards held July 14th at the Georgia Aquarium. Presented by AmericasMart and the Oriental Rug Retailers of America, the ceremony recognized ...
ICA Home Decor rebrands, opens Atlanta showroom.
Aug 01, 2008 ... By Jenny Heinzen York Intercontinental Art has rebranded itself as ICA Home Decor and opened its first showroom in Americasmart last month. The company was founded in 1976 as a framed graphics producer, and now is expanding into more home categories and building ...
Tabletop industry echoes a glass half-full outlook in tough economic times.
Aug 01, 2008 ... By Lindsey Strader Ongoing news about soaring gas prices, increasing shipping and materials costs, and shrinking discretionary consumer spending continue to reinforce the economic gloom and doom in the marketplace. But some tabletop manufacturers are finding ways to turn the ...
What retailers are saying.
Aug 01, 2008 ... Staff In an online survey of retailers who carry tabletop, conducted in July and early August at HomeAccentsToday.com, tabletop is a popular category. Of our responding stores, 23% said tabletop makes up 30% of their merchandise mix, while 14% said it was ...
Propac promotes Floyd to sales VP.
Aug 01, 2008 ... Staff Propac Images has promoted Samantha Floyd to vice president of sales. In her new role, Floyd will oversee product design, sales/marketing, sales agencies and showrooms for the wall decor producer. Samantha started with ...
Gifts & Dec names new editor in chief.
Aug 01, 2008 ... Staff Caroline Kennedy has been promoted to editor in chief of sister publication Gifts & Decorative Accessories . Kennedy's tenure with the publication spans 23 years, first as production editor and most ...
Briefly ...
Aug 01, 2008 ... Staff Aylin Garrett has joined Feizy Rugs as Western region territory manager, covering California, Arizona and New Mexico. A veteran of the rug industry, Aylin has held positions in both the wholesale and retail areas of the trade for the past 10 years. Most recently, she ...
Schonbek adds two marketing execs.
Aug 01, 2008 ... Staff Schonbek is strengthening its marketing functions with the addition of two new positions. "As a member of the Swarovski Group we're able to take advantage of the strategic and organizational skills that have made Swarovski a world power in the crystal ...
Capel taps Stoutnar to lead marketing division.
Aug 01, 2008 ... Staff Capel Incorporated has promoted Colleen Stoutnar to marketing manager. Stoutnar holds more than 15 years of marketing and sales experience in the home decor and hospitality industries. "We've greatly enjoyed working with Colleen since she joined us ...