Judi Fulbright
Welcome to Furniture/Today's Research blog. Each week we'll take a look at interesting research data related to the home furnishings industry. Our focus for the week may come from research we have conducted ourselves or it might be something we've come across and just want to share. We hope you'll use this space too, to share your thoughts or to weigh in with what you think about the topic under discussion.
Three members of Furniture/Today's Research team, Research Manager Dana French and Research Specialists Judi Fulbright and Daphne Garland-McLean, will be sharing this forum, each bringing our own unique perspective. We look forward to hearing from you!
Research SaysLink This | Email This | Comments (0) More on upholstery and price pointsAfter the appearance of the Upholstery Fabric & Style Survey in the October 5 issue, Furniture/Today’s research team fielded a call from a supplier who wanted to know the overall breakdown of upholstery unit market share by price point. Since we had not previously calculated those statistics, we quickly derived them and sent them along to the supplier as requested. In all... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (1) It’s a Contemporary world – styles and stationary sofasStationary sofas are the bread and butter of upholstered furniture sales. So what’s the most popular style for stationary sofas? Furniture/Today asked just that question in its exclusive Upholstery Fabric & Style Survey, 2009 . Answers came from more than 400 retail furniture store fronts. It seems that Contemporary is lord of the manor. More than one-half or 53% of stationary... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (0) Merchandise mattersFurniture/Today, through its annual Furniture Store Performance Report (FSPR) survey, has been striving for nearly two decades to offer furniture stores a set of benchmarks to measure their own store’s performance up against. Data on furniture stores’ merchandise mix printed in last week’s issue, September 14. A free download of this report is available for the 30 days;... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (0) How does your store stack up?For nearly two decades, Furniture/Today has been tracking furniture stores’ operations and merchandise mix to create a yardstick that furniture stores can use to measure their own store’s performance up against. This year we’ve divided the data into two separate reports, the first on store operations printed in this week’s issue, and the second on merchandise... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (1) Is it a recovery yet?While there’s not a crystal ball available to forecast exactly when the economic downturn will end, Kiplinger.com recently published their Recovery Index composed of six key economic indicators. When three of the six indicators have positive results, then the likelihood of an emerging economic recovery becomes stronger. The key indicators include: Interest-rate spread, a reflection... More |
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