Blog Archive

Read Bush CEO Jim Sherbert's commentary on furniture industry issues in the blog postings below.

Surface & Panel

What is Green?

A couple of decades ago “green” was nothing more than a color that only a few people liked and most avoided because it doesn’t go with anything. Today, the term green is a vague reference to anything that can be marketed to infer environmental stewardship. But what does it mean? How does or should it change people’s behavior? Read more...

Furniture Today - The Corner Office

Taxation and the consumer

10/27/10 - As economists attempt debate over whether America is headed into a deflationary or inflationary cycle, we citizens continue to bear the brunt of ever increasing taxation in one form or another. If you live in the state of New York, as I do, you see this every day. Read more...

Breaking with tradition

9/3/10 - I first heard the term paradigm shift in the 1980s. It took some time to learn how to spell paradigm and even longer to figure out what it meant. Read more...

It's time to go on the offensive

8/23/10 - Nearly three decades ago, China embarked on the most massive human migration ever undertaken. The country successfully converted over 300 million people from a destitute agrarian culture to a vast consuming middle class. Read more...

Confidence and partnerships

8/4/10 - Economists across the country continue to bemoan the nation's lack of consumer confidence and its impact on the domestic economy, but can this be turned around? Can the furniture industry do anything to reverse the negativity? Read more...