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High quality system solutions for living spaces
Pull-out laundry hamper systems are gaining popularity due to their space-saving design, convenience, organisation, integration with cabinetry, and contribution to home improvement efforts. As homeowners seek efficient and stylish solutions for laundry storage, pull-out hamper systems provide a practical and aesthetically pleasing option. As Heinrich Sagel and Hermann Vauth, the [...]
Focus On – GMK Logistics
Flooring Magazine recently sat down with Derek Lightfoot, CEO of GMK Logistics to discuss all thing business including a discussion about the expansion of the GMK footprint. GMK has over 60 years of experience in the logistics industry. What is the GMK story? G.M. Kane & Sons Pty Ltd was [...]
Fitouts and Trends – the RV Focus
Swimming with Manta Rays on the Great Barrier Reef, exploring hidden gorges in Karijini, West Australia, or hitting the red dusty highways of the outback, Australia has a lot to offer. You can do this in style in a recreational vehicle that through good design is a virtual home away [...]
GMK Logistics – Celebrating 60 years
This month, GMK Logistics proudly celebrates sixty years of service to the Australian flooring industry. Their story started on the 31st of October 1962 when John Kane registered G.M. Kane & Sons Pty Ltd, naming it after his parents George and Muriel. He started out with just one truck, providing [...]
Robotics for future apartments, today
The home of the future is one step closer to reality with the launch of Ori Systems’ first product, an all-in-one robotic dresser, desk and bed. Showrooming in luxury real estate developments in a number of US cities, Ori is debuting its new, modular furniture that enables city-dwellers to do [...]
Smart office furniture from Herman Miller
Herman Miller has teamed up with Swiss designer Yves Béhar for a new suite of smart office furniture that launched recently at NeoCon, a trade fair for commercial interiors in Chicago (USA). This line of furniture is called Live OS and uses a system with sensors that can come preinstalled [...]
Ikea targets small apartments
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 is focusing on furniture
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 [...]
Global design trends for 2017
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) [...]
Prospects are strong for Nick Scali
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 [...]
Pillow Talk reaches milestone year
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 [...]