A powerful tool for New Year success
Ray Allegrezza, Editor in Chief -- Furniture Today, December 24, 2006
Based upon the assumptions that knowledge is power and that time is money, this copy of the 2007 Retail Planning Guide has the potential to help you strengthen your business and shore up your bottom line.
I use the word potential because as with any tool, in order for it to be effective, one has to pick it up and use it. Having said that, I'm equally confident that if you do, this year's Retail Planning Guide will help you to successfully navigate a retail landscape that often seems to change each hour.
Each year, we organize the planning guide by sections, one of which is an Economic Outlook segment. This year, 19 states are expected to exceed the national average in terms of furniture and bedding growth.
To facilitate your access to this critical information, the Economic Outlook section provides you instant, at-a-glance access to those 19 hot spots.
Another essential part of the planning guide is the Industry Outlook section. In the pages devoted to this section, the reader will find updates on the sales potential for a number of the key product categories for the coming year.
Thanks to the expertise of the individual Furniture|Today product writers, the guide includes category-specific reports for case goods, occasional furniture, home entertainment furniture, home office furniture, stationary upholstery, motion upholstery, leather upholstery and more.
To further your awareness of those categories, the guide also includes major styling and design trends within those product categories.
To help you plan your travel for the upcoming year, the Retail Planning Guide also features an up-to-date and comprehensive calendar of the key industry events planned for 2007.
Finally, the guide also features many of the rankings you rely on Furniture|Today for each year. Specifically, we've included our 2006 list of Top 100 U.S. furniture stores, the Top 25 supplier/sources for the U.S. market and the Top 25 U.S. retailers.
I know that your goal is to drive your business to new levels in 2007. Our goal in preparing the 2007 Retail Planning Guide is to provide you with a roadmap to help you reach that destination.
All of us at Furniture¦Today wish you success in the New Year!
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