With a powerful hurricane barreling toward the Texas-Louisiana coast, Howell Furniture closed its three stores Monday as evacuations began. “You don’t know what you’re going to come back to,” third-generation co-owner Shawn Hanley said today. Hanley is in Oklahoma, where her daughter gave birth to a boy Tuesday – a
Howell Furniture has been named Retailer of the Year for 2019 by the Home Furnishings Association. The award was presented Jan. 6 to owners Wade Witt, Shawn Hanley and Tom Schwaab in their Beaumont store by Mark Schumacher, executive vice president of the HFA. [Watch: HFA Facebook live at Howell
For days on end, Howell Furniture’s Facebook feed ran a string of public service announcements. Again. Tropical Storm Imelda poured 43 inches of rain onto Beaumont and other communities in Southeast Texas last month, triggering floods that nearly matched the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey in August 2017. Howell co-owner
Jama Featherstone from Podium, an HFA Solution Partner, shares how retail furniture stores can utilize texting as an effective
The Home Furnishings Association’s Resource Center opened for business today. The fall High Point Market began with overcast skies this
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) at the Department of Labor recently released its long-anticipated Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS)
The long-anticipated opening of Home Furnishings Association member Sheely’s Furniture and Appliance’s new store in Aurora proved a hit for
If you would have told Gaston “Gat” Caperton back in January that Gat Creek, his family-owned furniture manufacturing company in
Congress and the Trump administration are preparing another Covid-19 relief package. The Home Furnishings Association’s Washington representative, Chris Andresen, and government relations liaison Doug Clark
Everyone is trying to figure out what the “new normal” will look like when your stores reopen. What will recovery look like to you and
