In the News
Edited by Lisa Casinger -- Home Accents Today, 10/1/2005
- George Little Management bows in as management for the temporaries in Dallas.
- Baldwin launches a 14-SKU outdoor lighting line.
- MEO The Home Collection launches a ceramic division after purchasing Mane Lion design rights.
- Mary Jane Cashman leaves her post at Ivan Bloom to form her own rep group in Chicago, Casa Bella.
- New Orleans retailer Hurwitz Mintz builds $7 million display area and warehouse.
- Four Hands drops Imports from its name and expands offerings and begins manufacturing some of its own product.
- Four CBK execs, Randy Eller, Treesa Hundley, Sharon Pulley and Steve Spaduzzi, buy minority stake in the company.
- Jamestown, N.C.-based Furnitureland South promotes new 5-story store with 80-foot highboy.
- Seven-month old WithIt's first national event draws crowd of 700.
- Licensed sales were $73.2 billion in 1997.
- Chelsea House names Bill Cain president.
- Max Munn's Interiors adds Windsor Art & Mirrors to its earlier purchase of Vanguard Studios and Artmaster Studios.
- Crate & Barrel opens its 75th store, the largest yet.
- Slatkin & Co. offers a rose-scented Diana candle to benefit the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund.
- The Ernest Hemingway collection from Thomasville Furniture debuts at the October High Point market.
- Rowe Furniture pays at least $10 million for Atlanta-based Storehouse; buys Mitchell Gold in a deal valued at $32 million.
- Vornado Realty Trust, parent company of MMPI buys Market Square, Market Square Towers and Hamilton Market in High Point, N.C.
- The Bramble Company moves into outdoor with teak and aluminum furniture and bronze garden decor
- Industry vets, Steve McKee (former pres./COO Gabberts), Marvin Traub (former chair/CEO Bloomingdale's) and Carl Levin (consultant and former senior veep of home at Bloomies) partner in opening The Home Company; first store slated to open in May 1999 in Texas.
- Arteriors launches first collections of Nautica (furniture bowed in 1997) accessories and lamps.
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