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Furniture World News By Nic Ledoux on 3/15/2021
To provide retailers with the opportunity to preview its new collections ahead of April Las Vegas Market, E.S. Kluft & Company announced that it is hosting a series of private and personalized open houses in its California and Pennsylvania factory showrooms through the end of March.
“Since winter market was moved to April, we’re providing existing and new customers the opportunity to view our new collections in advance and get a head start on planning for the products they would like to carry before the busy selling seasons,” said Jon Stowe, managing director of E.S. Kluft & Company. “And with health and safety concerns still top of mind, we also wanted to give our customers the opportunity to do business in the way they are most comfortable.”
Furniture World News By Nic Ledoux on 2/5/2021
Due to the 2021 Winter Las Vegas Market being postponed until April, the Specialty Sleep Association (SSA) announced that it s showroom is “going virtual” to bridge the gap between January and April.
Since the Las Vegas Market opened, every winter and summer the SSA has presented a bedding co-op showroom of 30+ exhibiting companies at the Las Vegas Market, now located in C Building (C1565). The SSA did not want to disrupt that offering, even during these disruptive times.
SSA Executive Director Tambra Jones said, “We have a beautiful showroom filled with bedding products. We are offering an interactive virtual experience with the companies in the room for stores who want to shop now, and they can do it safely from their own computer.”
Furniture World News By Nic Ledoux on 12/15/2020
Capitalizing on a recent shift in timing of home furnishings industry markets, and in concert with ongoing travel and government restrictions in the western United States, International Market Centers (IMC) has rescheduled the winter and summer editions of the Las Vegas Market originally planned in January and July to run April 11-15, 2021, and August 22-26, 2021. IMC’s 2021 markets in Atlanta for Gift & Home and Apparel will run as scheduled
“We have opted to postpone the winter Las Vegas Market in connection with Governor Sisolak’s recent extension of Nevada’s ‘statewide pause’ and in consideration of stay-at-home orders currently impacting travel for key western states,” said Bob Maricich, IMC CEO. “HPMA’s decision to change High Point Market from April to June further affirms our decision and allows us to shift the winter Las Vegas Market into April