Journals By Industry - Furniture Stores

LOS ANGELES -- Two leaders from the home furnishings industry will receive The Spirit of Life[R] Award, City of Hope's most prestigious philanthropic honor at the institution's 2012 Spirit of Life Award dinner...

Sales and lease ownership leader enables seamless roaming for associates and lets customers test-drive WiFi capable devices NEW YORK -- Retail's BIG Show - Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:ARUN) today announced that Aaron's, Inc.,...

NEW YORK -- Equinox Payments, a leading payment terminal and secure applications provider and portfolio company of The Gores Group, LLC, today announced that Rooms To Go[R], America's number one independent furniture retailer,...

The Shops at Target marks retailer's latest evolution in affordable design MINNEAPOLIS -- Building on its legacy of making great design accessible to all through innovative retail partnerships, Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT) is introducing...

2011 Holiday Revenues Increase 4.2% Fourth Quarter EPS Guidance Revised to $1.10-$1.15 versus Previous Guidance of $1.15-$1.20 SAN FRANCISCO -- Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (NYSE:WSM) today announced that net revenues for the 8-week holiday period...

Company Donates to Non-profits at Grand Opening Ceremony DESLOGE, Mo. -- Rent-A-Center Manager Scott Berowski and his five-person sales team are pleased to offer residents of Desloge an additional option when it comes...

PLANO, Texas -- Rent-A-Center, Inc. (NASDAQ/NGS:RCII) will broadcast its quarterly earnings conference call on Tuesday, January 31, 2012, at 10:45 AM ET over the Internet. This call will be held to discuss the...

ADVERTISING, MARKETING & PUBLIC RELATIONS 2011 Highlights * Woodland Hills-based online advertising firm ReachLocal continued its expansion with new offices in Germany and Australia; it had a presence in 11 international and 46...

Retailers reveal the business resolutions that they will be sticking to during the good and bad of 2012. By Gemma Goldfingle and Alex Lawson. Many retailers had a pretty grisly 2011 and will...

UK brands have successfully moved into the Japanese market thanks to their combination of quality control, long-term vision and understanding of the consumer. In a highly competitive market like Japan, you need to...

"We continue to be committed to maintaining a healthy portfolio of stores that allows us to focus on growth from our best and most productive locations," said Terry Lundgren, Macy's chairman, president and...

ATLANTA -- HAVERTY FURNITURE COMPANIES, INC. (NYSE: HVT and HVT.A) today reported sales for the period ended December 31, 2011. Havertys' sales for the fourth quarter 2011 increased 3.8% to $168.3 million, versus...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Dillard's, Inc. (NYSE: DDS) ("Dillard's" or the "Company") announced today that merchandise sales ("sales") for the 36 days ended January 1, 2012 were $1,108,722,000 compared to sales for the...

~Company Comments on Fiscal 2011 Guidance~ YORK, Pa. -- The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. (NASDAQ: BONT) today announced comparable store sales for the five weeks ended December 31, 2011 decreased 0.7%. Total sales decreased...

PHOENIX -- Retail Marketing Services Inc. (RMSI), which was founded by Moe Negrin in Atlanta in 1991 and sold in 2000, has now re-opened under the name Retail Market Services and is based...

CINCINNATI -- Macy's, Inc. (NYSE:M) today announced a series of store openings and closings as part of the company's normal-course process to selectively prune underperforming locations while also opening new ones to fill...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (NYSE:WSM) announced today that it will release its 2011 Holiday Sales results on Thursday, January 12, 2012, prior to market open. The Williams-Sonoma, Inc. Holiday Sales period covers...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] OPPORTUNITIES IN THE DESIGN FIELD ARE GREATER THAN THEY MAY appear. However, aspiring designers are often discouraged from pursuing careers in the arts because of the perception that there is no...

While some of his competitors have gone out of business (luring the tough economic climate of the past new years. Jake Jabs has expanded his American Furniture Warehouse empire to 13, with new...