Cabinetmakers, custom furniture crafters, and home remodeling contractors are vulnerable to negative publicity from consumers, who post their unhappiness at services review sites like Yelp.
How can small businesses, including woodshops, succeed in a global economy? Know your market and stay in front, remain flexible and manage labor costs.
As business improves for custom cabinet shops and woodworking enterprises, innovative firms succeed first. And like those innovative shops, Vance has adopted new technologies to serve the industry.
GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- Steelcase Inc. has purchased substantially all of the assets of bkm Total Office, one of its New England contract furniture dealers.
PROVIDENCE, RI -- Furniture maker Kevin Mack of Malden, MA, won “Best in Show -- Traditional Furniture” at the Fine Furnishings Providence Show for the second year in a row. He also won “Best in Show – Student Work” in 2007.
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