Furniture Struggles With Its Brands
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Furniture Brands may be just like any other struggling furniture firm these days.
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One of the mantras of global industry in recent years has been keeping inventories lean and mean, but there are increasing signs this cost-cutting strategy is creating strains and causing companies to miss out on sales.
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The home furnishings retailer is showing improvement in a difficult year.
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Public anger in China over a popular  skin-care line has become a public relations headache for  Procter & Gamble , underlining the challenges foreign  firms face as they contend with increasingly discriminating  consumers.
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Some hubs of cheap retail are struggling, but not all of them.
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Home furnishings retailer lowers expectations.
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The athletic shoe and apparel retailer continues its struggles.
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ALMHULT, Sweden  - The design chief of home  furnishing giant IKEA was recently asked in China, now home to  two of the blue and yellow warehouses selling the Scandinavian  lifestyle, if he was worried about being a "design  imperialist."
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The furniture company is retooling to take advantage of lower-cost imports, but will that be enough to kick-start growth?
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Tequila is suffering an identity crisis: The original poor man's liquor has earned status and trademark protection, but now must fight to defend its name and its niche in a fickle international marketplace.
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Competition makes for a dreary outlook for the company.
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As Swedish do-it-yourself furniture giant Ikea conquers more and more ground, the company is struggling to make its austere founding ideals mesh with life as a multinational mammoth.
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As soon as Kerry Triffin spotted a bed crafted from New Zealand rimu wood at a New York design show last year, he wanted to carry it in his Connecticut furniture shop. His wife had a different idea.
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Can two new ad campaigns save the struggling apparel chain?
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It has become increasingly difficult to find a name for a company, a product, even a new shade of lipstick that has not been taken.
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The fashion company continues to build and buy in the face of disappointing sales.
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The media conglomerate puts some magazine titles on the block.