http://www.dmnews.com/home-furnishings/topic/265/ Articles tagged with Home Furnishings from DMNews Hear what Will Payovich, director of creative services at Euro RSCG Chicago, thinks of recent campaigns from Cinnabon, furntiture store company The RoomPlace and Progress Energy. http://www.dmnews.com/creative-campaigns-from-cinnabon-the-room-place-and-progress-energy/article/140408/ Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT Organic brought Ethan Allen's tradition of pairing customers with designers into the digital space with an interactive design board and one-to-one sharing capabilities. http://www.dmnews.com/ethanallencom-by-organic/article/138169/ Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:30:00 GMT Sears Holdings Corp. is testing a new store format that has one foot in online shopping and the other in bricks and mortar retail. MyGofer "is a completely new shopping experience that offers the best of online and bricks and mortar," said Brenda Storch, a company spokeswoman. The concept is more than a buy online and pick up in store strategy, Storch continued. http://www.dmnews.com/sears-testing-new-store-format-tied-to-online-shopping/article/137689/ Fri, 29 May 2009 16:22:36 GMT Moving to a new home — whether for work, family or simply more space — is one of the great catalysts of consumer spending. The average new resident spends about $7,300 on everything from window treatments to take-out meals in the three months following a move. This spending sweet spot around a new move is prime time to reach consumers when they are most receptive to trial offers and actually looking to forge new connections. http://www.dmnews.com/new-movers-a-recession-proof-consumer-category/article/136285/ Wed, 06 May 2009 13:59:09 GMT Cambria, a producer of natural quartz countertops, has launched its first custom publication, Cambria Style, as part of a new push for consumer engagement. The glossy magazine will be sent to 18,000 Cambria customers in the brand's best-served geographic regions, which include Minneapolis, Chicago, Toronto, Charlotte and Wisconsin, among others. http://www.dmnews.com/cambria-puts-a-new-custom-publication-on-the-table/article/129307/ Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:03:03 GMT Blueport Commerce, an e-commerce service provider for "considered" retail markets, launches today by the management team of Furniture.com to help those retailers create online sales opportunities. http://www.dmnews.com/blueport-commerce-launch-to-help-considered-e-sellers/article/128063/ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:00:00 GMT In a move to focus its resources on its "orange box" stores, The Home Depot is exiting its EXPO business and taking steps to streamline its support functions, resulting in the loss of 7,000 jobs, or approximately 2% of the company's total work force. http://www.dmnews.com/the-home-depot-exits-expo-business/article/126385/ Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:55:46 GMT Hästens, a manufacturer of handmade luxury beds with 330 retail stores worldwide, has implemented SAP CRM in its push for global growth. http://www.dmnews.com/sap-aids-global-growth-for-bed-retailer/article/126329/ Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:01:02 GMT Williams-Sonoma Inc. is eliminating 1,400 full-time positions, or 18% of its work force, closing a call center and a distribution facility and instituting other cutbacks as it tries to align the company's infrastructure with one of the worst retail environments in decades. http://www.dmnews.com/williams-sonoma-lets-go-1400-employees/article/126248/ Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:02:05 GMT There's been a dramatic rise in the use of payment meth­ods other than credit cards over the past few months. Online home electronics retailer Etronics reports transaction vol­ume through eBillme during the past two months has grown 35% on the site, according to Mark Zayats, marketing direc­tor at Etronics. http://www.dmnews.com/credit-alternatives-explored/article/121353/ Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:30:00 GMT