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.
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Title: Executive Editor
Email: dperry@reedbusiness.com
Bedding TodayLink This | Email This | Comments (3) Bedding Conference focuses on female consumersOur upcoming Bedding Conference, set for the Ritz-Carlton in Orlando, Fla., May 5-7, is focusing on the key drivers of the mattress purchase: Women. “Consumer Connections: It’s All about Her” is the conference theme, and we are backing that with more than a dozen female speakers from inside and outside the industry. Bridget Brennan, a leading expert on marketing to... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (0) HP mattress intro deadline: March 19It’s market time again. This time it’s the High Point Market that is in the spotlight, and your trusty bedding writer (that’s me) will be covering the mattress highlights in stories, charts, etc., in issues leading up to and distributed at the market next month. Your deadline to get your High Point introductions to me is Friday, March 19. That’s the date by... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (2) ISPA Expo honors Malkiewicz, Van DykeCHARLOTTE, N.C. - Bedding veterans Ray Malkiewicz and Sandy Van Dyke received the top two awards bestowed by the International Sleep Products Assn. here.Malkiewicz, formerly of Wickline Bedding, received the Russell L. Abolt Exceptional Service Award, the industry’s highest honor. “Ray Malkiewicz has been one of the most outstanding contributors to ISPA during his 40-plus years... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (0) ISPA EXPO: Chili runs hot - and coldCHARLOTTE, N.C. - Few companies want to be known as offering a cold line. Chili Technology is an exception to that rule.The privately owned product development company is based in Mooresville, N.C., not far from here, and thus shows at the ISPA Expo on its home turf. It offers temperature-regulation systems, a category that it sees as opening a new frontier in the mattress industry. This is... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (2) ISPA Expo: Insomniaczzz to take stageCHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today’s the first full day of the International Sleep Products Assn. Expo here, and it features what is sure to be one of the show highlights: The return of the “insomniaczzz,” the mattress industry’s homegrown band.The band made a rousing debut two years ago at the ISPA Expo in Baltimore, and returns to action tonight with an all-new playlist... More |
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