More than 60 vendors rang in the first week of the new year at the Southeast Flooring Market, held at the Cobb Galleria Centre, January 3-4, in Atlanta, Ga.
As the “retail apocalypse” canard continues to grab the odd headline in the media, the data and the facts are consistently telling us quite a different story.
The most recent retail sales figures released by the Census Bureau were up a robust 4.2% year-on-year in July. Every month this year has seen a steady increase in sales over the same period last year.
A combination of service, styling, quality and competitive pricing established Lexmark as a market leader in the hospitality segment and allowed the company to successfully expand into residential market in 2013.
Though businesses and professional circumstances run the gamut, I get many of the same inquiries from the people I meet, those frequently asked questions that come up so commonly.
Here are three of those questions I’m asked most often, followed by my responses.