ABC TO HOLD LIQUIDATION SALE ON ANTIQUE RUGS FOR VENDORS.(Brief Article)

HFN: The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network, March, 2003 by White, Jennifer

NEW YORK-ABC Carpet & Home will hold a massive liquidation sale for its antique and decorative rug vendors March 6 to 23 with discounts up to 80 percent off.

The more than 10 rug vendors represented, including Loom & Weave, Rug Warehouse, Hakim Oriental, Habib Gallery, Soharab Oriental, Iraj Oriental, Ahdoot Oriental and Tavous Oriental, are going out of business, according to Graham Head, president of ABC Carpet & Home. He said the event, the largest in size ever done by the store, was a sign of the times.

"The old way of twiddling worry beads and not telling a customer where the rug is from is over," Head said, adding that female customers are intimidated by this masculine environment for selling rugs.

The sale will be held on the sixth...

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

BNET TalkbackShare your ideas and expertise on this topic

Please add your comment:

  1. You are currently: a Guest |
  2.  

Basic HTML tags that work in comments are: bold (<b></b>), italic (<i></i>), underline (<u></u>), and hyperlink (<a href></a)

advertisement
advertisement
  • Click Here
  • Click Here
  • Click Here
advertisement