HOMEGOODS EXPANSION A BOON FOR TABLETOP MANUFACTURERS.(Homegoods plans to expand tabletop merchandise department)

HFN: The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network, October, 2002 by Zisko, Allison

HomeGoods is probably the best-kept non-secret secret in the tabletop industry.

With an expansive, well-presented tabletop department that offers both overstocks and discontinued items as well as in-line merchandise, the retailer provides the perfect outlet for vendors that find themselves in a jam with unsold goods or unwanted department store exclusives.

So although many manufacturers are skittish about upsetting their established channels of distribution, namely their department store customers, the prospect of a major HomeGoods expansion, as its parent TJX Cos. announced earlier this year, is too good for most tabletop vendors to pass up.

When the economy turns sour and many companies are suffering, HomeGoods and TJX are natural...

Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.

Premium Content Partnership | HighBeam Research provides an in-depth online archive library of reference works.