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Swiss furniture dealer Pfister is looking towards autumn and inspiring its customers with three corresponding trends for cosy and relaxed hours at home: "Elegant Glamour", "Tone-on-Tone" and "New Naturalness" are the themes that the company has transformed into living scenarios using Pfister furniture and accessories.
The BBE Furniture Index only showed a single-digit minus in the first half of 2021 (-9.7 %). The decline in sales from the first quarter of 2021 has therefore already been significantly reduced.
The Hamburg-based company Faradj & Homayoun Farhadian has recently launched its B2B webshop (www.farhadian-shop.com). From now on, customers from the retail trade can view and select Farhadian collections here. Various filters help with pre-sorting: by size, colour, pattern, type of manufacture or provenance.
The winners of the Location Awards 2021 have been announced: first place in the category "Hybrid Event Location" went to the Streaming Studio H'Up at the Hanover Exhibition Centre.
The lead theme of Domotex 2022 (13 to 16 January) puts health and wellbeing, naturalness and sustainability on centre stage and is intended to provide a fresh perspective on the world of carpets and floor coverings. "Cover New Ground" is also meant as an invitation to take a new perspective on the central spatial element of flooring – with new areas of application, trends and innovations.
According to a survey by the German Retail Association (HDE), consumer sentiment in Germany continues to improve in July, continuing the positive trend of the past four months. The association cites the low incidence rates and the easing of the Corona measures as reasons.
In the third year of restructuring, the formerly ailing Kika/Leiner group is in a very healthy position; now CEO Reinhold Gütebier and managing directors Darius Kauthe and Oliver Müther have prematurely extended their contracts by three years, as is reported by the news portal Niederösterreichische Nachrichten.