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Are we getting the conversation wrong about tariffs? | Cindy W. Hodnett

As anyone in the industry knows, we all come away from High Point Market with visions of furniture swirling in our heads, inspired by some…

adminNovember 7, 2025

Commercial Construction

Industry Perspectives Op-Ed: Building Canada’s future – Significant opportunities and challenges for construction in the 2025 budget

This year’s federal budget is, at its core, about building, and about building faster than ever before. Under Prime Minister Mark Carney’s leadership, the Canadian…

adminNovember 7, 2025

Commercial Construction

Industry Perspectives: Investing in people is not political – it’s principled

Recent attempts to discredit Ontario’s Skills Development Fund (SDF) and worse, to portray historic union endorsements of the Progressive Conservative Party as somehow nefarious, does…

adminOctober 24, 2025

Lifestyle

Best at Work Insights: Don’t import 996; why America should reject overwork culture | Jaime Raul Zepeda

China’s 996 model — 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week — was sold as a path to speed, discipline and dominance. In…

adminSeptember 12, 2025

Lifestyle

The risks and rewards of trade show date shifts | Allison Zisko

How significant is it when a trade show shifts an established date pattern? We’ll find out when the New York Tabletop Show takes place next…

adminSeptember 11, 2025

Lifestyle

The ‘unintended casualties’ of the tariff war and my solution | Susan Williams of Kalalou

The owner of home décor brand Kalalou shares her solution to Trump's recent tariffs that's a win-win for manufacturers and the government. Small American businesses…

adminAugust 29, 2025

Lifestyle

‘Tariff fatigue’ falls over Las Vegas Market as buyers grapple with filling inventory

World Market Center Las Vegas Campus. (Photo courtesy of Andmore) LAS VEGAS – As the last stop – along with the twin NY Now and…

adminAugust 5, 2025

Lifestyle

Talk of tariffs hangs over summer edition of Atlanta Market

In just about every showroom, the topic of conversation was the same at AmericasMart this past week. ATLANTA — It wasn’t all about tariffs at…

adminJuly 24, 2025

Lifestyle

As tariff picture comes into focus, price increases near certainty | Bill McLoughlin

If you are a furniture retailer and have not yet had discussions with or received letters from your vendors about price increases, consider yourself lucky.…

adminJuly 14, 2025

Lifestyle

Happy holidays? Retailers rethink holiday strategy amid tariff limbo| Allison Zisko

We are just past the halfway mark of the year, a year that back in December seemed so promising for business but has proved to…

adminJuly 7, 2025

Opinion

Are we getting the conversation wrong about tariffs? | Cindy W. Hodnett

Industry Perspectives Op-Ed: Building Canada’s future – Significant opportunities and challenges for construction in the 2025 budget

Industry Perspectives: Investing in people is not political – it’s principled

Best at Work Insights: Don’t import 996; why America should reject overwork culture | Jaime Raul Zepeda

The risks and rewards of trade show date shifts | Allison Zisko

The ‘unintended casualties’ of the tariff war and my solution | Susan Williams of Kalalou

‘Tariff fatigue’ falls over Las Vegas Market as buyers grapple with filling inventory

Talk of tariffs hangs over summer edition of Atlanta Market

As tariff picture comes into focus, price increases near certainty | Bill McLoughlin

Happy holidays? Retailers rethink holiday strategy amid tariff limbo| Allison Zisko

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