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Ikea is launching new micro-living furniture, inspired by storage ideas in actual space shuttles. The company will shrink its furniture to target those who have to move into small apartments and tiny homes. “An Ikea team is looking into how a Mars habitat can become more like home,” Ikea said [...]

Amazon.com is making a major push into furniture and appliances, including building at least four massive warehouses that specialise in handling bulky items, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal who spoke with people familiar with the online company’s plans. With that move, Amazon is taking on two [...]

At the Milan Furniture Fair, collaborations between fashion and design companies are on the rise, and there is a move towards modular structures, super sofas and bright colours. Finely-crafted collectibles were shown at the 56th edition of Salone del Mobile in Milan and the recent International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) [...]

Shares for furniture retailer Nick Scali (NCK) have surged in the past 12 months with solid sales growth and continued margin expansion. Founded in 1962 by Nick Scali and listed in 2004, NCK has a track record of delivering consistent earnings growth and a steadily increasing stream of fully-franked income [...]

Queensland-based Pillow Talk is celebrating 40 years in business. The bedding and homewares company has been operating since 1977, when the brand’s first store opened in Brisbane’s Ann Street. Now over 50 Pillow Talk stores operate around the country. Chief executive and co-founder Heath Goddard said there were many reasons [...]

Australian franchise Vast Furniture & Homewares said it has developed a business that runs a lower cost base than that of industry standards. CEO and founder of Vast, Ross Clayton has criticised this way of doing business and has devloped an alternative model that has removed the need for storage, [...]

House of Home is an online marketplace that offers products from over 400 local Australian retailers and has annual revenue of more than $4 million. The business came about after co-founder Stephen Jones started a web-based furniture marketplace called Furniture Exchange in 2013. Soon after the launch, he merged with [...]

The Denfair Furniture Fair, held recently in Melbourne, is constantly focused on contemporary Australian designs. "The idea behind Denfair was simply to give Australia a platform to promote original design without compromise," Thibaud Cau-Cecile told the Financial Review. Cau-Cecile, along with Claudio Oyarce, manages Unwritten Shows, the organising body behind [...]

Three furniture designers from South Australia are making waves in the industry. They are benefiting from the state’s booming hospitality scene and a demand for locally-made, handmade products. Wholegrain Studio Josh McCallum is the self-described “object maker” behind Wholegrain Studio and said the majority of fitout jobs come from food [...]

The export journey for Australian mattress and bedding, A.H. Beard, began less than five years ago with an approach from Emma Wang, a principal of Shanghai Green, a leading homewares group in China. Ms Wang convinced the A.H. Beard family to form a partnership with a view to selling its [...]

Joyce Corporation has announced a $275,000 incentive scheme to attract franchisees to set up its new Bedshed stores in Sydney as part of a broader move into the east coast market. The company, which said it was looking at Sydney as the next step in its national expansion, will offer [...]