David Perry
Welcome, Cyber Readers. I'm David Perry, executive editor of Furniture/Today. For the past three years I've been sharing my observations on our wonderful and sometimes wacky home furnishings industry in this Web-exclusive column.
Now, with this blog format, you can join the dialogue in a new way. Let me know what you think about what I think, and I'll reciprocate.
Title: Executive Editor
Email: dperry@reedbusiness.com
Bedding TodayLink This | Email This | Comments (26) Eitel answers critics, defends performanceFormer Simmons CEO Charlie Eitel is making a strong defense of the company’s performance under his watch, saying that sales increased substantially and that he built lasting relationships with retailers – and “sold a lot of beds” - by entertaining them on his boats and in his homes. I asked Eitel the other day if he wanted to respond to recent stories in The New... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (9) Bedding forecast sees big rebound in 2010They say the media doesn’t report good news, but I come before you today with three nice-sounding numbers: 7, 12 and 15. Those are three estimates of how much growth the mattress category will record next year. Yes, you heard us correctly. We said “growth.” That’s not a word that has been heard in Mattressville in recent years. I found those... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (0) ComforPedic Retail Tour: Good news at CardisPROVIDENCE, R.I. - Good news from the retail trenches: The worst is over.The Cardi brothers - Nick, Ron and Pete - offered that assessment to me while we were all seated (comfortably) in the spacious, spa-like bedding department of their flagship store just outside this historic city. The brothers are the well-known faces of Cardis Furniture, the first stop on this day of the ComforPedic... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (9) ComforPedic Retail Tour: Ad lessons in AgawamAGAWAM, Mass. - The drive to the Simmons factory here from the airport in Hartford, Conn., was vintage New England: Stone fences, stately old homes and beautiful vistas. The colors are changing as autumn invades the Northeast. One thing that hasn’t changed, I learned, is the need for mattress retailers to keep promoting. That point was driven home at the open house the Simmons factory... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (2) ComforPedic Retail Road Tour a good ideaHARTFORD, Conn. - Greetings from the capital of the Nutmeg State, a very special place for me to embark on a journey of retail discovery. More on that in a moment.This is my jumping off point for a rendezvous with the ComforPedic Loft Showroom on Wheels, an 18-wheeler that I last saw parked in a dusty Las Vegas parking lot across the street from the World Market Center. That’s where... More |
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