Monthly Archives: February 2023

  1. Zuo joins gaming craze, partners with leading home decorating game

    Zuo joins gaming craze, partners with leading home decorating game

    I’m anything but avid gamer, but in recent days I’ve had fun playing Design Home, a leading home decorating game that allows users to pick out brand-specific furniture and décor while designing everything from a new bedroom to that dream home.

     

    I downloaded the app, which is available in the Apple Store and Google Play store, at the behest of Zuo CEO Luis Ruesga, who excitedly told me about his company’s new partnership with the game’s creator. The partnership allows Zuo items to be among the options from which players can choose when designing a bedroom, living room, home office or outdoor space.

     

    “It’s a very cool way to extend the reach of our brand to more consumers and interior designers, especially tech-savvy Millennials who have grown up with video games,” Ruesga said.

     

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  2. Survey says: It’s not clear if a recession is imminent – or if we’re already in one

    Survey says: It’s not clear if a recession is imminent – or if we’re already in one

    At last month’s Las Vegas Market – the most upbeat furniture industry show we’ve attended since the pandemic – there was a fair amount of discussion about the dreaded “R” word.

     

    Are we in a recession now? Is a recession likely to occur later this year? Should we worry about a recession at all?

     

    The most common answer to all three questions: I don’t know.

     

    While that may seem like the classic evasive answer, it’s probably the best one, given the confusing and sometimes contradictory indicators we’ve seen in recent months.

     

    January’s unemployment rate, for example, was only 3.4 percent – the lowest in decades. But the inflation rate was still uncomfortably high at 6.4 percent – although that was well below last summer’

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