Las Vegas retailer targets special niche through display
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Society by design is a Las Vegas, NV-based upscale, design-oriented home furnishings retailer that also employs local artists to build distinctive custom furnishings. The local artists include fabricators who work with metal, wood, as well as upholstery. The firm, which is co-owned by Collen Munro, Theresa Cole and Burt Lancon, have transformed a track home in Las Vegas into a unique show home decorated with its product line. The inauguration of the show home was presented to raise funds for the Neon Museum in Las Vegas. The show home is also leased as space for photography, video and movie sessions, parties, as well as for rent and for sale as fully furnished.
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Is a Las Vegas, NV-based upscale home furnishings retailer
Publication Name: Furniture-Today
Subject: Home furnishings industry
ISSN: 0194-360X
Year: 1998
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Former Sealy execs form new firm
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Strategic Retail Associates, a consulting company established by two former executives of Sealy, aims to increase retailers' profits by helping them in their negotiations with bedding suppliers. The firm was established by Jesse Horgan, former senior vice president and chief financing officer of Sealy, and Ken Garlitz, former Sealy marketing manager. Strategic Retail, which collects fees based on the realized savings of the retailers, also assists the retailers to obtain market support programs from the dealers. Likewise, the company helps dealers in the development of effective sales and merchandising strategies.
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Is a consulting company designed to increase retailers' profits by helping them in their negotiations with bedding suppliers
Publication Name: Furniture-Today
Subject: Home furnishings industry
ISSN: 0194-360X
Year: 1998
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Sealy and Ladd rebound from net losses in '97
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Sealy, a bedding company, together with Ladd, a furniture maker, has reported profits in 1997 compared to losses in 1996. The 15.4% increase in revenues that Sealy achived in fiscal 1997 has been attributed to fewer big accounting charges that the company icurred during the year. In fiscal 1996, Sealy took a charge for selling Samuel Lawrence, a former case goods subsidiary and recorded a big one-time charge because of a management restructuring that resulted in the appointment of Rone Jones to replace John Beggs as chief executive.
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Reports profits in 1997 compared to losses in 1996
Publication Name: Furniture-Today
Subject: Home furnishings industry
ISSN: 0194-360X
Year: 1998
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