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In City Furniture’s journey to becoming carbon neutral by 2040, there is no such thing as a small step. Some steps, however, are bigger than others. City took one of those big steps this week by putting the first all-electric terminal tractor in the Southeast to work, moving hundreds of semi-trailers and containers at the firm’s massive distribution center in Tamarac, Fla. Earlier this year, the Home Furnishings Association member set the complex operational goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2040. Its 2040 Green Promise encompasses the company’s showrooms, warehouses and offices, its statewide delivery fleet and recycling initiatives. The company already leads the U.S. furniture

Anyone who knows HFA member Randy Coconis of Coconis Furniture and his family knows their passion for bringing awareness and support to autism. That passion was never more on display than this summer when Shannon Coconis, Randy’s daughter, received a state award for her work with helping families with autism. A month later the family’s 10th annual “Tee It Up Fore Autism” golf tournament in Zanesville, Ohio, raised more than $70,000 for the National Autism Association. Shannon Coconis, who works part-time for her father at the family business, gave birth to a son in 2003. In 2008, her son was diagnosed with autism. Shannon

eMarketer values online furniture sales at $42 billion this year, a number that is expected to rise to $50 billion in 2020. But those numbers don’t impress local brick-and-mortar retailers who shy away from e-commerce because they can’t find reliable shipping with fixed quotes. Thanks to shipping broker UShip, furniture retailers might want to rethink that decision. UShip’s fixed-price, white-glove delivery service helps online merchants solve that problem and enables retailers to compete with Amazon, Wayfair, Walmart and other larger online sellers. Moving oversized items like furniture is old hat to UShip, one of the Home Furnishings Association‘s solution partners. The company

Furniture retailers know protection plans provide large margins and are in demand by consumers who want to protect their investment. For retailers, however, finding the right program for the products they sell has always been a challenge. Montage Furniture Services, one of the nation’s leading protection plan providers, thinks it has the solution. Montage, a Home Furnishings Association solution partner, offers many services to consumers and retailers that both groups can’t find with other protection service companies, says Alan Salmon, Montage’s president and CEO. First, the consumer side. Many furniture protection providers require consumers to notify the provider within a