Furnitureland South Selects Icovia Interactive Room Planner

Furniture World Magazine

Icovia, a leading provider of online interior design solutions for the home furnishings industry, announced that Furnitureland South has selected Icovia as its exclusive interactive room and interior design planning solution. The world’s largest home furnishings showplace, Furnitureland South’s is increasing its market share in an industry hit hard by the economic downturn. The firm credits the increase to a boom in website traffic, international buyers and client referrals. “Our website has become a vital tool for attracting new customers, particularly internationally,” commented Jason Harris, executive vice president, Furnitureland South. “For customers who can’t visit our showroom, we need to provide an online shopping experience that allows them to (realistically) visualize their interiors furnished with our products. Although www.FurniturelandSouth.com has offered its own internally-developed room planning tool for years, we have decided to switch to the Icovia solution because it is easier to use and provides more features, such as the ability to design in metric for our international customers. We also expect that using Icovia will reduce IT costs and improve the overall customer experience.” “Icovia welcomes Furnitureland South to our growing clientele of leading furniture retailers who have chosen to adopt Icovia over their own solution,” commented Steve Street, CEO of Icovia. “We have invested thousands of hours and over five years of research and development to create what is considered the industry’s online leading space planning software. Icovia provides the ability to provide a highly customizable shopping experience to customers while reducing total ownership costs.” For more information on Icovia version 5 visit www.icovia.com. About Furnitureland South: Furnitureland South is the world’s largest home furnishings showplace with more than 1.1 million square feet of showroom space. The family-owned business was founded in 1969 by Darrell and Stella Harris and has grown to its current standing as a leader in the furniture industry over the past 39 years. Furnitureland South, in Jamestown, N.C., offers in-house interior design consulting and ships to customers all over the world. For more information, please visit www.furniturelandsouth.com. About Icovia: 20-20 Icovia Inc, was founded in 2000 and has become the industry leading online room planning solution for retailers, manufacturers, interior designers and homeowners. The Icovia Room Planner delivers value to businesses and consumers at once with powerful, easy-to-use interior design tools that combine free usage with registration-based features to identify potential buyers as actionable contacts. Through our acquisition by 20-20 Technologies in January of 2008 Icovia is now bringing the resources of a global company focused on interior design technologies to the home furnishings industry. Icovia is headquartered in Londonderry, NH.