We have coverage of next month’s IWF exhibition in this issue, and there is a lot more online at www.cabinetmaker.com and in our IWF Pre-Show Planner, which is being updated several times before the Aug. 22-25 show dates.

More cabinet manufacturers in the FDM 300 report higher sales, but overall trend is down in 2011.

Who’s watching your company’s online reputation? Probably nobody. Who can post unsubstantiated complaints and untrue criticisms of your company? Almost anyone.There may be dozens of online criticisms and comments about your business and you may not know they exist. This isn’t an area we’ve spent a lot of time analyzing. I remember three or four years ago doing research on a story and discovering a web site dedicated to consumer complaints. The two categories that seemed to draw the most ire from the general public at that time were airlines and furniture stores.