| Furniture store on Pass Road burns | | Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 2:57:34 PM by Blog57 Team | | A fire at a furniture store on Pass Road threatened FEMA offices Tuesday, but firefighters contained the blaze in time, said a fire official. The Furniture Ranch at the corner of Pass Road and Jody Nelson Road caught fire near its office area. Firefighters arrived just in time to prevent it from spreading to the four other businesses in the building, said Gulfport Fire Chief Pat Sullivan. "They said there was a lot of fire when they went in," Sullivan said. "One worker from the furniture store was taken to the hospital for smoke installation to be checked. (He) tried to go back in to get two dogs. We did find the dogs. They had died in the fire." With smoke visible as far away as downtown, nine units and 23 men battled the early afternoon blaze that also threatened a beauty salon, bike shop and FEMA's Gulfport office, Sullivan said.... | |
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| | | HETTICH INTRODUCES SILENT SYSTEM FOR OFFICE FURNITURE | | Posted Friday, December 01, 2006 12:59:00 PM by Blog57 Team | | [ClickPress, Fri Nov 17 2006] Hettich introduces Silent System soft-close technology for office furniture. To achieve this, it was necessary to modify the feeling of gentle, silent closure that's now familiar to kitchen and living-room furniture. The rigorous demands places on office furniture require that drawers must close quickly within the work flow while making little noise. Slow drawer closure in the office environment would unacceptably delay access to contents. To keep office furniture from tipping over, an anti-tilt feature ensures that a drawer or pull-out is fully closed before another one can be opened. To apply cushioned closure technology to the specific needs of office furniture, Hettich has combined Silent System with the self-closing feature for office pull-outs. This has shortened the closing distance, thereby resulting in a movement that closes a drawer much more quickly than in applications for living-room furniture or kitchen cabinets.... | |
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| | | Sales reclining at some Midlands furniture stores | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 10:58:26 PM by Blog57 Team | | Even though home sales in the Midlands have been growing steadily, local furniture retailers are experiencing a roller coaster of a market. Some furniture stores and retailers say they are faring well, while others say they are not. Kincaid Furniture has become the latest national retailer to close its Columbia store, while management at newcomer Rooms To Go boasts that "business is great." Staff at Kincaid Furniture Co.'s headquarters in Hudson, N.C., were not available for comment Monday. However, the owner of the company managing the liquidation at Kincaid's Columbia, Greenville and Charleston stores said sales there were not as strong as at other Kincaid stores. Kincaid has more than 20 owner-operated stores and 140 in-store galleries nationwide.... | |
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| | | Furniture store ordered to stop upfront collections | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 11:10:25 PM by Blog57 Team | | HIGH POINT -- The state attorney general has ordered a High Point furniture company to stop collecting in advance for sales after more than 300 customers complained they hadn't received their merchandise. The restraining order was issued Thursday against N.C. Furniture Buy Direct. "We've heard from hundreds of people who paid for furniture they never received," Attorney General Roy Cooper said in a written statement. "That's not the way to do business, and we're taking action to stop it." Court papers said some 322 customers complained to the attorney general about the company in the past two years. Ken Phillips of Macon, Ga., said he ordered $3,200 worth of furniture in May from the company. He has yet to receive any furniture or a refund.... | |
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| | | McDaniel's Furniture One Step Closer to Relocating East of Pinckneyville | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 7:00:07 PM by Blog57 Team | | PINCKNEYVILLE - Pinckneyville city council members on Monday placed on file for public inspection several measures that will allow McDaniel's Furniture and Appliances, Inc., to relocate from its present site on the courthouse square to the building formerly occupied by the Illinois Fish Farmers Cooperative.City commissioners in May gave their approval to the plan, which draws on funding from several sources, including Pinckneyville's tax incremented financing (TIF) accounts. Economic developer Jeff Ashauer told the council on Monday that total cost for the project would reach $793,750.The property, located east of town on State Route 154, would be divided into two 4-acre parcels. Under the current plan, the city would sell the eastern parcel to McDaniel's. The business would acquire the existing 49,000-square foot building, which McDaniel's would renovate into a one-story furniture and appliance store.Estimated costs for redeveloping the building would total approximately $550,000, Ashauer said.... | |
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| | | Fine furniture goes smart and wired | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 6:58:47 PM by Blog57 Team | | Finally, a piece of furniture that reflects how people really live: a cabinet/desk/console that recharges multiple cell phones, docks iPods, and provides Internet access and data ports for laptops. This multitasking design is so new, it doesn't even have a name. But it's being touted as a command center for families and households because it organizes the overload of high-tech domestic gadgets and entertainment components piling up in America's kitchens and front hallways. In a period of weak sales, the manufacturers introducing lifestyle solutions for 21st-century living were the ones that drew attention at the fall International Home Furnishings Market here. Store buyers crowded around the new designs as if they were concept cars at an auto show for one reason: They're useful.... | |
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| | | European Office Furniture Not Just B2C, Prime Office Furniture Also Sells B2B to Furniture Distributors and Retailers | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 11:09:09 PM by Blog57 Team | | (PRWEB) November 1, 2006 -- As a recognized online vendor of distinctive European office furniture, Prime Office Furnituredoesn't just sell high quality furniture at factory-direct prices to small-to-midsize business consumers only. Prime Office Furniture welcomes business-to-business alliances that benefit furniture vendors by giving them unique office furniture at wholesale prices to sell to customers at an advantageous retail price for a considerable profit. .... | |
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| | | Office furniture market to go up by some 20% | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 1:10:13 PM by Blog57 Team | | The relocations of the major companies from Romania, as more and more office buildings are delivered onto the market, could trigger an almost 20% increase in office furniture market this year. Having reached 50 million euros last year, the office furniture is one of the most dynamic niches of its respective market. "The office furniture market became more balanced, more settled, with major surprises unlikely occur, it reached maturity. And the maturity of tastes is also characteristic for the demands coming from Romanian companies' clients," said Bogdan Staicu, chief executive officer of Mobexpert Office, the office furniture department of Mobexpert Group, the largest player on local furniture market. .... | |
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| | | Life-Sized Furniture Templates Are An Affordable and Useful Gift for Home this Christmas or Hannukah | | Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 7:02:59 PM by Blog57 Team | | Prairie Village, KS (PRWEB) October 30, 2006 -- This holiday season new furniture shoppers and home remodelers can put down that tattered 1/4-inch scale drawing and fire the pricey interior decorator. Design Yourself Interiors, Inc. (http://www.designyourselfinteriors.com) has created a useful, reusable and affordable Christmas gift, stocking stuffer, hostess gift or Hannukah gift for home - life-sized "DYI furniture templates" that will replicate the actual size of furniture and fixtures before an expensive purchase is finalized. .... | |
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| | | This is one reason Atmos Energy wants to increase your gas rates. | | Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 7:03:42 PM by Blog57 Team | | AUSTIN -- More than $70,000 in artwork. At least $5 million in office furniture -- including a set of $2,000 chairs. Airline tickets costing more than $1,700 for an executive and a spouse to attend the presidential inauguration of George W. Bush. Thousands of dollars in meals at pricey Dallas restaurants. These are a few of the seemingly discretionary items critics have found in Atmos Energy's $63 million proposal to increase gas rates for North Texas customers. "It's outrageous," said Joe Sanchez, AARP's associate state director for advocacy. "High rates are a burden for everyone. ... I find it distasteful that the company is lining their walls with $75,000 in artwork when these [gas bills] are hitting hard on the elderly and those on fixed incomes." But a representative for Atmos Energy said the expenditures are prudent and necessary.... | |
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