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Ray Allegrezza

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Welcome to Furniture/Today's blogs. Each week in my Editor's Desk and Green Light blogs we'll take a look at interesting news or events in the furniture industry. The most important part of this whole process will be your input. So, take a look at my posts below and weigh in with what you think by clicking on "Add Your Comment" at the bottom of each blog.

Title: Editor In Chief

Email: rallegrezza@reedbusiness.com

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Remembering Don Marks...

Over the weekend, Don Marks, Badcock’s president and CEO from 1998 to 2008, passed away after a hard fought battle with cancer. For those of you fortunate enough to have known him, you know what an asset he was not only to Badcock, but to the industry at large. Even after his recent retirement, Don played an active role in the company via his position as valued member of... More

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Ikea May Be Overselling The "In-Store" Experience

Leave it to IKEA. At a time when most retailers are scratching their heads for ways to entice shoppers into their stores,  it appears that the IKEA location in Beijing needs to find ways to get customers to go home. Really. There was a recent story in the L.A. Times reporting how scores of shoppers in and around Beijing take day trips to IKEA. Sounds like that would be good news,... More

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Memo to furniture retailers: Facebook is your friend!

Wesley Lee, manager of a Thomasville store, is a man after my own heart.  He looks for good news and when he finds it,  he is quick to share it. Today, he sent me a note along with a just-issed report from BIGresearch that is worth sharing with you. Recently, BIGresearch polled more than 22,000 consumers regarding their utilization of social media platforms such as Facebook,... More

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Hit 'em where they ain't...reach 'em where they are.

At 5′ 4″ and 140 pounds, Willie Keeler had the distinction of being the smallest player ever to play professional baseball.   By today’s standards, his 30-inch, 29-0unce-bat looks like a toothpick compared to some of the logs the big boys use today, but even so, Wee Willie had an eight-year run beginning in 1894 that netted him eight seasons of rapping 200 hits... More

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Furniture frustrations: Time to pay the piper?

While CIT’s latest  challenges may not be the straw heavy enough to break the camel’s back, it certainly seems to have the potential to put the darn dromedary in a corset. And with CIT’s future still murky–and credit still tight as a tick–the added stress of an uncertain outcome  certainly appears to have shortened the tempers  of more than... More
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