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Once a year, the "Schöner Wohnen" editorial team awards the "Best of Design" label. Thus, the interior design magazine is building up a new licensing business "and lets manufacturers benefit from the reputation and positive image with which the traditional brand has been shaping interior decoration in Germany for over 60 years", it says in a press release.
The Austrian Kika/Leiner chain is expected to end the 2020/21 business year in the black (cut-off date: 30 September). This was announced by CEO Reinhold Gütebier in an interview with the newspaper Salzburger Nachrichten. Gütebier, an industry professional, was brought on board in 2018 to restructure the ailing retail chain after René Benzko's Signa Holding took it over from Steinhoff.
The Hamburg publishing house Gruner+Jahr has taken over the interior design platform Wohnklamotte ("living gear"). Wohnklamotte is a platform with an online magazine and shopping section. The magazine offers interior decoration trends, tips and DIY instructions. More than 300 affiliated shops in ten categories with over 5 million products are aimed at young and free-spending people who enjoy decorating their homes.
In times of Corona, interior decoration and cocooning are very popular indeed. "In the specialist product ranges as well, online retailers have seen the biggest development since 2015; in 2020 they already had a market share of 24.1% by 2020," it says in a current study by the management consultancy Titze, which specialises in the fields of building, living and furnishing. According to the study, furniture stores as well as specialist shops have lost market shares; these sales channels were at 23.5% and 21.0% respectively in 2020. Contract business, however, is said to be on the rise (2020: 8.2%).
In an online press conference on 1 September, Heimtextil presented its design forecast for the new 2022/23 season. With "New Horizons", the three design agencies of the Heimtexil Trend Council presented their forecasts for textile living. Behind this title is the approach of making the world more sustainable in the long term through a new way of thinking. Next Horizons will also be available in full digitally before Heimtextil. At www.heimtextil-trends.com, Heimtextil will present the individual trends in detail.
In Afghanistan, events are happening at a breakneck speed; the pictures and news make us feel deeply concerned. So how is the situation affecting the population, including the carpet-making population, we ask ourselves. What future awaits the people in this politically and economically very uncertain situation? And: How can the carpet trade help? On our site, Carpet Home will keep you informed; this article is constantly updated.
SN-Verlag, Carpet Home's publisher, is organising its first own digital trade fair from 2 to 5 November 2021: Home & Flooring Expo is aimed at a German-speaking trade audience from the retail, wholesale and craft sectors. It is a joint project of the five trade magazines BTH Heimtex, FussbodenTechnik, Parkett Magazin, Haustex and Carpet Home; for technical reasons the site is German-language only.
The Balta Group breathes a sigh of relief: Europe's largest manufacturer of textile floor coverings, which at times was hit very hard by the economic consequences of the Covid pandemic, reports a 19.5% jump in turnover for the first half of 2021 compared to the same period last year, to EUR 318.3 million.