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Article: Tabletop vendors remain positive; new products, new perspectives fuel growth for some.
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- Home Accents Today
- Article date:
- August 1, 2009
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By Susan Dickenson and Angela Heck
Despite an overall slowing in sales for the tabletop category, some vendors are staying in the game by playing to their brands' core strengths while others are catering to a consumer demand for more individuality, simplicity and functionality. Heading into the final quarter, the vendors interviewed by Home Accents Today reflect on the economy's rippling effect, how they're dealing with the double whammy of rising production costs and slipping sales, and their prognosis going forward.
David Moses, CEO of Lazy Susan USA , is among those who believe the sluggish economy has encouraged more entertaining and dining at home, ...