With more consumers looking to ‘make do and mend’, in this issue we meet the care and repair specialists seeing huge demand for their services, and discover how their products and procedures have evolved to meet demand in a post-Covid world.
In this month’s lead story, Wendy Martin Green outlines the approaches she’s taken since inheriting the family retail business 10 years ago, while elsewhere Gordon Hecht urges retailers to rethink their approaches, and Jesse Akre looks at merchandising websites.
With the welcome return of face-to-face trade shows, we look back at Manchester Furniture Show in Harrogate, and ahead to some of the exhibitions approaching.
Finally, don’t forget to check out our Bed Buyer supplement, featuring our NBF Bed Show preview, plus interviews with the CEOs of Bensons for Beds and Mattress Online.