Jepara Trade and Tourism Center ( JTTC ) is where we get a lot of information about furniture in jepara. It can provide all types of furniture solutions for your house under one roof. You can choose furniture for your Living area, Bedroom and Dining room. We also offer accents, entertainment tables and occasional tables. The entertainment centers, TV stands, media storage cabinet and game tables of are elegant and rich looking.
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The Galleries not only continue to offer outstanding products but also provides knowledge of the furniture market to the shoppers. The mission of Place Furniture is to offer the best possible service, ergonomically designed selection and value available without compromising on the quality. The friendly staff at The Place Furniture Galleries is always eager to help you make your furniture choices and answer your queries
Besides guaranteeing Reliability and a Pleasurable Delivery experience The Place Furniture Galleries never fails to meet your furniture needs and demands. You can select pieces for your Drawing room, Bedroom and Living room. JTTC a offers a wide range of products ranging from traditional to contemporary styles and is very popular with people of all ages.
Jepara Trade and Tourism Center as The Place Furniture Galleries , a complete furniture information has an experience of over 5 years in the furniture business and strives hard to enhance the look of your home and also adds functionality to it. The Place Furniture operates from 4 well-located places in Long Island. Friendliness, Dedication and Service has helped it to build a noteworthy list of clients.
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Friday, October 16, 2009
Concrete Furniture Market Expanding Rapidly
By now the booming market for concrete countertops is well known. Architects and designers are well versed in concretes ability to contribute to the cool, natural look that is in such demand.
What is not as well known is the growing popularity of concrete furniture pieces some of North America’s most creative craftsmen are creating.
“People want to have something they can show off, not something that mimics what their friends or neighbors have,” according to Terry Stogner, owner and founder of Concrete Interiors in Alamo, California. In addition, concrete can be designed in options, straight, curved, or freeform; a variety of edge treatments are possible; surface treatments such as textures and inlays can be used; and the concrete can be tailored to compliment glass, metal, or wood. “And if you break outside the standard mold with concrete, the cost does not go up dramatically,” he said.
Beau Hibdon of Elements of Time in Redmond, Oregon, got his start in furniture when customers he was building a patio for asked him to build the furniture to go with it. “I started using different materials over boards and pieces of plywood. I’d use stains and stamps. When I started showing what I could do, people didn’t believe it.”
Today, the gallery he owns with partner Dave Anderson boasts beautiful furniture that lures customer after customer. Hibdon says requests for furniture are common these days. In fact, three “high-end” stores are interested in their work.
Cheng Design in Berkeley, CaliforniaCheng Design in Berkeley, California, is known internationally for its innovative design work in kitchens, bathrooms, and custom homes. The use of concrete is abundant. “I have an art background and I was always trying to be inventive,” said Futung Cheng, whose mother was a color artist at the Walt Disney Studios. Three of his brothers are professional artists. Cheng was immediately drawn to the virtues of concrete. “It is easily sculpted, it takes any guise, and it mimics whatever ask it to be,” he said.
Cheng design has introduced a new Geocrete Pangea Series Workstation, a module that plugs into a new or existing kitchen. The Workstations are designed around specific functions like pastry making, brass or stainless trivets to be designed near a cook top, fitted cutting boards or chopping blocks and integral fruit bowls.
As each day passes more and more owners, designers, and builders realize the possibilities of concrete for custom furniture pieces — this market is poised to continue growing and become more creative.
Beau Hibdon of Elements of Time in Redmond, Oregon, got his start in furniture when customers he was building a patio for asked him to build the furniture to go with it. “I started using different materials over boards and pieces of plywood. I’d use stains and stamps. When I started showing what I could do, people didn’t believe it.”
Today, the gallery he owns with partner Dave Anderson boasts beautiful furniture that lures customer after customer. Hibdon says requests for furniture are common these days. In fact, three “high-end” stores are interested in their work.
Cheng Design in Berkeley, CaliforniaCheng Design in Berkeley, California, is known internationally for its innovative design work in kitchens, bathrooms, and custom homes. The use of concrete is abundant. “I have an art background and I was always trying to be inventive,” said Futung Cheng, whose mother was a color artist at the Walt Disney Studios. Three of his brothers are professional artists. Cheng was immediately drawn to the virtues of concrete. “It is easily sculpted, it takes any guise, and it mimics whatever ask it to be,” he said.
Cheng design has introduced a new Geocrete Pangea Series Workstation, a module that plugs into a new or existing kitchen. The Workstations are designed around specific functions like pastry making, brass or stainless trivets to be designed near a cook top, fitted cutting boards or chopping blocks and integral fruit bowls.
As each day passes more and more owners, designers, and builders realize the possibilities of concrete for custom furniture pieces — this market is poised to continue growing and become more creative.
source :http://www.concretedecor.net
How to manage a local furniture brand in an IKEA market
Out of the Shadows of a Big Box
Managing a local furniture brand identity in an IKEA Market
Boston’s IKEA Effect
This term describe the ripple effect of marketplace conditions that develop out an IKEA opening. These factors include shifts in shopping traffic, competitive pressures and displacement, but also include local retail profit opportunities.
IKEA in the marketplace
In soft economic conditions with low levels of consumer confidence, IKEA meets the shopping ideals of a broad base of consumers. By successfully managing a brand image with an ultra-competitive, underpricing model, IKEA has the potential to usurp market share from fellow national big box retailers such as target, to regional discount furniture giants such as Jordan’s, to smaller independent local retailers, alike. This marketplace challenge is compounded by IKEA’s unique orientation to important Boston consumer segments, including young adults and students. IKEA expects their Stoughton store to be one of the top in the nation and is investigating a land use deal for a second location nearer to the City of Boston.
Turning challenges into opportunity
Much more than the reports of furniture markets damaged by IKEA development, are the stories of great success through strategic marketing planning around its arrival. By its very nature, IKEA facilitates a trickle effect in local markets. It’s more than the simple fact that IKEA will draw shoppers into the region as Clive Cashman, a spokesman for IKEA’s North American operation well expressed the opportunity: “We have found that we and retailers like Home Depot definitely benefit from having close proximity to one another, but it also applies to smaller retailers.” This is the predominant story reported back from other markets as told in newspaper headlines such as “IKEA will boost local purchases to $400M” and “Giant furniture retailer could signal better times for beleaguered East Palo Alto.” Such consistent phenomenon gives rise to the important questions of what local business can do to ensure that they can avoid obstacles and maximize advantage under these market conditions.
Key Data Points
63% of Boston market adults say its important to them to shop local community stores
95% of Boston market adults say good customer services is a must
62% of Boston market adults seek quality and workmanship in their furniture purchase
Sample Quotation Abstracts
“We know IKEA has a weakness in upholstery, so we’re going after that and hoping to better compete.”
“IKEA makes it easier for shoppers to find Will’s Home Decorating. In the past, he would describe his store location, knowing that he was leaving customers befuddled.”
“The idea was the IKEA was attracting so many customers to Emeryville that there was bound to be spillover, especially of the higher-end customers who might grow disillusioned with IKEA’s do-it-yourself style.”
Highlighted Advertising Strategies
There are a multitude of strategies local retailers can employ to benefit from an IKEA arrival:
Differential the quality of your product over the big box expectation
Make your name and message visible in important traffic areas
Boston prefers locality, tell your local story
Reinforce customer loyalty
Get in front of new homeowners
Team Up: retailers in other regions have created cooperative success stories by creating a consortium of local furniture alternatives supplement IKEA shopping
Define your prospects and target with frequency
source : http://www.bostonglobe.com
