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...Another first is the USA Pavilion — look out for glassware by John Hogan and the rugged furniture of Fernando Mastrangelo....
...(FT) Warning: falling furniture Ikea, the world’s largest furniture retailer, has warned customers who bought 27m chests and dressers that their purchases could tip over and crush children....
...The mail-order and online unit sell products ranging from furniture to clothes, but has failed to match competition in recent years from aggressive online discount retailers....
...Other clients include Adidas, Fiat USA, Nike 6.0, Vice Magazine and Wieden + Kennedy, while she has appeared in numerous magazines....
...“The ‘Made in the USA’ label is more important now than it’s ever been. People are looking for American-made,” he says. “I’m convinced that our timing is exceptionally good.”...
...Furniture chain MFI collapsed after Merchant Equity Partners, as OpCapita was once known, had sold it on. However, the investor has done better with French furniture and electrical chain BUT....
...Redesigning space and putting in technology may be important, but moving the furniture is not enough without a shift in management attitudes....
...Steinhoff has expanded its European operations aggressively in the past three years, focusing on the lower end of the furniture and household goods markets....
...I just didn’t buy into the whole plain-speaking, home town-living, wise-cracking, coke-swigging PR picture – or the pressure to buy Buffett products (jewellery, furniture, steak…)....
...Interest has also come from Steinhoff International, the South African-listed furniture retailer, which missed out on buying But three years ago. All parties declined comment....
...The rise was driven mainly by a rebound in the subsidiaries that are for sale – Fnac, the high street book and music retail chain, Conforama furniture stores and the Redcats catalogue group....
...Mr Pinault also said PPR was in no hurry to sell its mass-market retail brands – Fnac, the book and music retail chain, the Conforama furniture stores and the Redcats catalogue business....
...The businesses that PPR is looking to divest include Fnac, a high street book and music retail chain, Conforama furniture stores and the Redcats catalogue business....
...But operating profits fell in the retail business after a large drop in profits at Conforama, the mass-market furniture retailer, and at Redcats, the catalogue business....
...My wife and I are antique dealers in English country furniture. We live and trade in USA but travel to England to buy for ourselves and clients....
...We needed to crack the USA. Our American adventure started in London earlier this year....
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