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 (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... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (0) Going Beyond the StuffWith the holidays behind us, everyone is figuring out how to merge all their new stuff into existing living spaces. Cramming clothes and other gift items into already overfilled closets is just another dilemma for consumers who received well-intentioned but unneeded stuff.Just how much consumers need no-nonsense personal advice when remodeling and decorating their homes became obvious to Maxwell G... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (5) To Market, To MarketMany of the retailers reading this are putting the wraps on holiday sales and looking ahead toward the winter show season. The winter shows also hold the attention of a segment of manufacturers, designers, sales reps and others within the industry. I know it feels like we've just finished with the whirlwind of fall markets, which were relatively strong for the majority of home furnishings manufact... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (7) Prepare for a bright futureAmericans will live in smaller homes with fewer rooms and larger outdoor living areas, according to the new "Vision for the Future" survey from the International Home Furnishings and Design Association.Over the next decade, some of the rooms in Americans homes will gain prominence while others become less relevant to the way families live, IFDA's nearly 2,000 members agreed. Multi-purpos... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (3) Updated spending forecastsThe casual furniture industry represents only a fraction of the overall home furnishings market, but the niche often is like an upstart child with a mind of its own. It wants to stay outside when told to come out of the rain.Furniture industry analyst Jerry Epperson had expected 2011 to be a little healthier than it has turned out to be. His new forecast calls for a 2.9% increase in U.S. consumer... More |
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