Home Furnishings Monitor™ Introduces 2008 Trend Report & Forecast

Furniture World Magazine

Home trends authority Home Furnishings Monitor™ recently launched its inaugural report and forecast of the American interior and outdoor home décor market. Home Furnishings Monitor 2008™ is a comprehensive, 200+-page trend portfolio that encompasses more than 17,000 products featured in dozens of lifestyle retail catalogs and magazines. Home Furnishings Monitor creators, Design Research Reports Inc and Gwen Toma Home Holiday LLC, developed this revolutionary trend-tracking service largely to remove the guess work from trend reporting and forecasting. “Our premier report and forecast, HFM 2008™, is backed by a combination of a factual database, statistical methods and quantitative analysis,” says Rick Babick, president of Design Research Reports Inc. HFM™ gives context to the world of home furnishings, providing a quantitative index to product offerings in leading home décor catalogs and to trend editorials in leading shelter publications. “Our products and services offer the industry essential and accurate design, product development and business planning tools that satisfy important market trend questions,” explains Gwen Toma, president of Gwen Toma Home Holiday LLC. The all-inclusive 2008 report reveals emerging, declining and future home trends from 2000 through 2008, tracked by product forms, materials, styles, patterns, colors and prices. HFM 2008™ presents an accurate, interesting account of the home furnishings market with 90+ factual graphs and charts, compelling qualitative analysis, 700+ full-color pictorials and Trend Watch 2008. Home Furnishings Monitor offers a variety of products and services including: FRESH DIRECTIONS TREND WORKSHOP—Fresh Directions is designed to provide companies with a unique and stimulating day of learning and brainstorming with invaluable trend information. The goal of this interactive session is to understand and apply trends to specific brands and businesses. Average Cost $10,000 (All workshops are customized to company needs/goals.) Home Furnishings Monitor 2008—Comprehensive, all-inclusive annual 200+-page report and forecast of the home furnishings market from 2000 through 2008, tracking product forms, materials, styles, patterns, colors and prices. Features 90+ charts, 700+ color images and Trend Watch 2008. Price: $3,995 Home Furnishings Monitor 2008 Chapter Reports—Choose from three chapter reports: 1) Color; 2) Product, Material and Price; 3) Style, Pattern and Pattern Weight. Price: $1,995 each. Home Furnishings Monitor 2008 Product Category Highlights Reports—Choose from five Product Category Reports: 1) Room Furnishings, 2) Decorative Accents, 3) Tabletop & Functional Gifts, 4) Lighting, 5) Outdoor Décor. Price: $1,295 each. Custom Services—Custom trend services, reports and forecasts are available by special request, including trend dimension-specific reports and forecasts, trend workshops and seminars, and product development brainstorming sessions. For more information on Home Furnishings Monitor, call (609) 896-1108 or visit www.homefurnishingsmonitor.com. Design Research Reports Inc is a research and marketing consulting service committed to providing our clients with the timeliest and most accurate market intelligence available. Our focus is the Home Furnishings, Decorative Accessories, Giftware and Luxury markets. Gwen Toma Home Holiday LLC is a marketing, design and product development consulting firm that provides a one-stop shopping experience for new and established businesses. We specialize in developing and marketing consumer gifts and home décor brands.