Outdoor Furniture News Archive 08-May-2009

  • Ornamental Embellishments Give Your Garden Personality (Hartford Courant)

    Carefully chosen embellishments enrich beds and borders with a strong sense of personality, but beyond that, human-made artful objects create a pleasing tension with the organic forms of the plants, serve as eye-catching focal points, add year-round interest and contribute to the overall theme of a garden.


  • How to Make a Big Splash with Your Small Yard (Lexington Clipper-Herald)

    (ARA) - A baby boomer couple downsizing, a working professional's downtown city condo, and a young family's starter home in a metro suburb -- the trend of people moving to smaller homes with smaller yards continues to grow.


  • Stable sales are good for HSN (The Tampa Tribune)

    Pilates equipment is in; diamonds are out. That was one consumer trend singled out by home shopping company HSN Inc. as it presented evidence to investors that the consumer market (theirs at least) has stopped getting worse.


  • Paper or plastic? (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Next month, when the annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair opens in New York, it will attract exhibitors from Europe and America, including several designers from the Bay Area and Los Angeles. Harbour Outdoor, a fledgling garden furniture...


  • Reclaiming the streets (Guardian Unlimited)

    A social enterprise is giving unemployed people design and carpentry skills, and winning council contracts for its outdoor furniture When Hitesh Bedia, 32, suffered a horrific accident that crushed his leg and left him unable to walk, the usually active father of a young child found himself incapacitated and out of work. After narrowly escaping an amputation and spending a year laid up, Bedia ...


  • Company Profile for Sancon Resources Recovery Inc. (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

    ----Sancon is an environmental services company that specializes in the collection, processing, and selling of processed material such as plastic, metal, paper, cardboard, and glass.


  • Evans Elementary honored for outdoor classroom (Post-Tribune)

    LAKE STATION -- Henry S. Evans Elementary School recently was given top honors for an outdoor classroom that teachers and students said has become an inspiration. Evans, which is part of the River Forest School Corp., was recognized as having the Outdoor Laboratory of the Year by the Indiana Tree Farm Committee and the Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's Association. And, Sen. Richard Lugar honored ...


  • For HSN customers jewelry is out, work out gear is in (The Tampa Tribune)

    HSN customers, almost all of them women, are spending more on products they can use to improve themselves, use with their families, or can save them money, Grossman said. Anything carrying a whiff of selfish indulgence tends to sell worse. That trend showed up in HSN's first quarter earnings, released to investors Thursday.


  • Making Patients More Comfortable (Voice of the Common Man)

    It's a program that provides small donations, but big results. The Health Care Foundation's Comfort in Care program handed out 11 grants yesterday, for everything from TVs to outdoor furniture.


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