A trailblazer is someone who moves ahead of everyone else to carve out a path and enter uncharted territory. In that case, it’s no wonder our judges decided that Howard Haimsohn, 3rd generation owner of Lawrance Furniture in San Diego, deserved the recognition and honor of the HFA 2023 Trailblazer
Several companies grew during the pandemic, finding ways to expand amid stiff headwinds and once-in-a-generation challenges. Old Brick Furniture & Mattress Company, the HFA 2023 Retailer of the Year (stores with more than 50 employees), takes pandemic growth and expansion to another level. I have to give you the back
You Can’t Do Business Like That In my travels as HFA’s CEO, I have been blessed to see many different ways to sell home furnishings. I have always said you could give separate store owners the same store footprint and the same product lines and you would end up with
“Every business owner has an exit strategy—even if they haven’t planned one.” For many private and family-owned businesses, daily operations
Digital marketing gets most of the attention in traffic conversations, but furniture remains a category where physical experience matters. Customers
Walk into any home furnishings showroom, and you can sense how radically the customer journey has shifted. Today’s shoppers no
HFA proudly congratulates its CEO, Peter Theran, on being named one of The Home Furnishings 500 most influential people in
In the recruitment and executive search world, we often hear requests for the “Purple Squirrel,” that so-called mythical candidate who
Men and women often bring different priorities to their jobs, and the companies that understand those differences build stronger teams, deeper loyalty, and better business
The competition for talent, from sales floor to delivery to leadership, keeps intensifying, and the retailers winning it are thinking beyond compensation. Join the Home
