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What makes a good store logo? – Part 3
Good branding communicates to customers what you stand for as a business. That branding can be communicated verbally or visually. We’re kicking off the first month of RetailerNOW’s e-weekly with a series featuring retail designer Martin Roberts, who will discuss the logos he helped recreate for four home furnishings retailers. This week Martin looks at […]
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Simple Finance changes its name
Lease-to-purchase specialist Simple Finance, a regular exhibitor at the HFA’s Resource Centers, is changing its name to Acima Credit. Acima will continue to provide lease-purchase financing and service and support to home furnishings retailers and their customers who come from a variety of credit positions. This name change is driven by a trademark issue between […]
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What makes a good store logo? – Part 2
Good branding communicates what you stand for as a business. That branding can be communicated verbally or visually. Last week we kicked off a month-long series featuring retail designer Martin Roberts, who’ll discuss logos he helped recreate for four retailers. This week Martin looks at Williams & Kay. A few years ago, Williams & Kay […]
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New Guidance for California’s Prop 65
California’s Prop 65 requires businesses with 10 or more employees to provide a clear and reasonable warning before knowingly and intentionally exposing individuals to chemicals that the state says cause cancer or reproductive toxicity. While the primary burden to warn consumers falls on manufacturers, Prop 65 applies to everyone in the supply chain; no one […]
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City of Hope gets a boost from Ashley Furniture
A cure for Type 1 diabetes in six years is the new goal of City of Hope’s Diabetes and Metabolism Research Institute. Through the generosity of Ashley Furniture president and CEO Todd R. Wanek and others, the institution will be able to devote more than $50 million over the next six years to an innovative […]
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HFA Installs BOD Members, Recaps Year
The Home Furnishings Association announced Steve Kidder of Vermont Furniture Galleries, Williston, Vt. as its 2017 president Monday during its annual membership meeting in Las Vegas and it added four board members to its ranks. Jacob Shevin, Standard Furniture in Birmingham, Ala., Lisa Keyes, Naturwood Furniture in Rancho Cordova, Calif., Richard Rotman, Rottman’s Furniture in […]
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What makes a good store logo? – Part 1
It’s more than just font, size and color. Martin Roberts offers a 60-second dissection of some of his favorite home furnishings logos. Good branding communicates what you stand for as a business. That branding can be communicated verbally or visually. We’re kicking off a five-part series featuring retail designer Martin Roberts, who’ll discuss the logos […]
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Knight Furniture creates tip-over safety video
By now you’ve probably seen the viral video of a bedroom dresser falling on a two-year-old boy in Utah and his twin brother trying to push it off him. HFA member Joey Gunn, a father of three-year-old twin boys himself, remembers watching the video and thinking, “what if that were my children?” So Gunn grabbed a […]
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Moray passes Gorman’s CEO title on to Lias
Longtime HFA member Gorman’s Home Furnishings and Interior Design has promoted its president and Chief Operating Officer Tom Lias to the company’s CEO. Lias will remain Gorman’s president and oversee merchandising, marketing and sales for the company, which has showrooms in the metro Detroit area and Grand Rapids, Mich., as well as a recently-opened clearance […]
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Fitterers Furniture named Seattle area’s best small biz
When HFA member Brad Fitterer learned his family store, Fitterers Furniture in Ellensburg, Wash., would be honored by Seattle Business Magazine at the publication’s annual awards ceremony recently, he figured he would pick up a plaque—maybe a pat on the back—and head home. So when magazine officials named Fitterers the best small business in Seattle […]