Cinde W Ingram
Cinde W. Ingram was recently promoted as editor in chief of Casual Living, a monthly trade magazine covering outdoor furniture, accessories, grills, spas and other leisure living products and the quarterly supplement Garden Decor, which covers accessories for outdoor use or inspired by the outdoors. For more than five years, Ingram has been managing editor of Casual Living as well as business editor of Garden Decor and Home Accents Today, which covers accent furniture, decorative accessories, wall décor, rugs, botanicals, candles and more. Prior to joining Reed Business Information, Ingram was an award-winning newspaper reporter and covered the furniture industry for about 15 years.
Casually SpeakingLink This | Email This | Comments (3) Embrace change that's right on timeNo matter how great an original idea might be, it takes the correct timing and the right kind of leaders to develop it.The timing was right in the 1970s for Don Flanders and his son Dudley, who built Lloyd/Flanders into the largest U.S. manufacturer of wicker furniture and one of the casual furniture industry's most prominent brands. The casual industry lost one of its well-loved icons with the re... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (2) How's the weather?Unseasonably warm weather combined with an earlier Easter holiday to encourage many U.S. shoppers to consider their outdoor areas sooner than usual this spring.The warming trend contributed to a solid sales growth pattern, the National Retail Association reported last month. Consumers were holding their own against rising gas prices and other economic concerns, according to Matthew Shay, NRF presi... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (3) International viewsRemember the classic movie Casablanca? It played through my mind several times last month in China as I became fast friends with Eileen Keithly Lee. And our experience is a good example of what can happen when conditions are right for mutually beneficial success. Eileen, president and managing director of Pittsburgh-based US Trading Solutions, was also a speaker at the fifth annual Outdoor Life... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (6) Family TiesAs I've been writing feature stories that involve family-owned businesses, I'm thinking of how widespread such company structures are in the outdoor home furnishings and barbecue grill industries. Family ties strengthen both vendors and retailers.For example, Napoleon Fireplaces & Stoves started in 1979 after one couple was able to develop and sell a better wood stove during an oil crisis. Wolfgan... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (2) Rebound with confidenceYou may remember Oprah Winfrey's witty quote about each new year bringing just "another chance to get it right."While new years and new seasons are seen as fresh starts by some folks, others focus only on failures of the past year. Whatever your perspective on the first few weeks of 2012, glimmers of hope streamed from early winter home furnishings markets as well as retailer association... More |
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