Larry Thomas — Furniture Today
\nPre-registrations ‘up significantly’<\/p>\n
TUPELO, Miss.\u00c2\u00a0— Organizers of this week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tupelo Furniture Market, long a haven for promotions and market specials, believe the semiannual event is poised for a rebound.<\/p>\n
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Furniture market President Bill Cleveland said last week that pre-registrations were \u00e2\u20ac\u0153up significantly\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from last August\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s show, and were even running moderately ahead of the February 2012 market.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m really encouraged by the number of pre-registrations,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Cleveland said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Traditionally, February has been our strongest show, and this looks like it won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be any different.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Market organizers have been concerned that the new Las Vegas market, which concluded its second show less than three weeks ago, would siphon buyers from Tupelo, but Cleveland said the early signs appear to indicate the Mississippi show is holding its own.<\/p>\n
He said exhibitors and sales representatives are saying attendance should be heaviest from retailers in the Southeast, but they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re also expecting to see a number of dealers from other parts of the country, especially the Midwest.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153And we already have more Top 100 stores registered than we had at the August market,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<\/p>\n
The August show took place less than three weeks after the inaugural Las Vegas market, and most exhibitors reported attendance declines of 10% or more from August 2004.<\/p>\n
Cleveland said market organizers are once again encouraging exhibitors to offer \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Tupelo only\u00e2\u20ac\u009d specials for buyers who place orders at market. He said the program was well received in August, and he believes participation will increase this week.<\/p>\n
The effort is designed to capitalize on Tupelo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reputation as an order-writing market and its niche in promotionally priced merchandise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Larry Thomas — Furniture Today Pre-registrations ‘up significantly’ TUPELO, Miss.\u00c2\u00a0— Organizers of this week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tupelo Furniture Market, long a haven for promotions and market specials, believe the semiannual event is poised for a rebound. Furniture market President Bill Cleveland said last week that pre-registrations were \u00e2\u20ac\u0153up significantly\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from last August\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s show, and were even running […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}