41. Drive, geared to auto enthusiasts, and Home Improvement, directed at the home furnishings market, are more recent endeavors. 42. Economists have long known that spending on homes triggers spending on other items, including home furnishings. 43. Eighty-five percent of the business is divided roughly equally among the home furnishings, kitchenwares and bed-and-bath departments. 44. Ex-wife Cher is hawking jewelry, home furnishings and clothing. 45. For a retail chain that sells clothes, home furnishings, and anything else that smacks of fashion, a dowdy image is big trouble. 46. For years, Pantone has provided the fashions and home furnishings industries with a uniform system in which colors are identified by numbers. 47. Frazzetta wants to expand his artwork to include other home furnishings. 48. Girouard initially oversaw the worldwide buying that came to define the home furnishings retailer. 49. Guerra began restoring a French-style building and opened an eclectic international home furnishings store there. 50. He and several partners formed a retail home furnishings business, financed primarily with venture capital funds. |