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August 31, 2023/Furniture Insights

August 2023 Furniture Insights®

Once again, the results of our recent survey of residential furniture manufacturers and distributors require explanation more than just a comparison. Read more in our latest Furniture Insights®.

July 31, 2023/Furniture Insights

July 2023 Furniture Insights®

As we expected, the results of our survey for May continued to indicate slow business. Read more in our latest Furniture Insights®.

June 29, 2023/Furniture Insights

June 2023 Furniture Insights®

There is some good news out there and comments like “business can be described as good, not great,” make us believe that business has not fallen off like some expected it to do. Read more in our latest Furniture Insights®.

May 31, 2023/Furniture Insights

May 2023 Furniture Insights®

Current words to describe business are “slow” or “soft” or various other adjectives, none of which are very exciting. Large backlogs have kept many recording nice sales levels, but as new orders continue to be less than shipments, sales levels will soon decline as many have already seen. Read more in our latest Furniture Insights®.

May 1, 2023/Furniture Insights

April 2023 Furniture Insights®

We finished off our visits at the High Point Market with what seemed like a pretty good market. Read more in our latest Furniture Insights®.

March 31, 2023/Furniture Insights

March 2023 Furniture Insights®

There has been some flattening and even slight increases reported late this quarter so we will see when those results are in. Read more in our latest Furniture Insights®.

February 28, 2023/Furniture Insights

February 2023 Furniture Insights®

The results of our final survey for 2022 continued the latest trends of declines in orders from the very high order rates of 2020 and 2021. Read more in our latest Furniture Insights®.

January 31, 2023/Furniture Insights

January 2023 Furniture Insights®

The current survey results continue to be difficult to make complete sense of since so many individual companies are in different places themselves. That, along with the other variables we have discussed before, continues to make “reading the tea leaves” hard to do. Read more in our latest Furniture Insights®.

December 30, 2022/Furniture Insights

December 2022 Furniture Insights®

We knew that the good business in late 2020 and 2021 would not continue. No one we talked to thought it would last as long as it did. Yet everyone hated to see the good times end. Read more in our latest Furniture Insights®.

November 30, 2022/Furniture Insights

November 2022 Furniture Insights®

We are hearing various thoughts on the current state of business. Some are still seeing declines, while others seemed to have maybe “bottomed out.” Read more in our latest Furniture Insights®.

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