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RH Remains Far From The Summit Of ‘Luxury Mountain’

In RH’s first quarter 2024 report to Wall Street, CEO Gary Friedman tried to put a positive spin on otherwise depressing news – the lipstick-on-a-pig metaphor comes to mind.For years, Friedman has defined the long-term vision for RH to “climb the luxury mountain,” but it reached its peak in fiscal 2021 with revenues of $3.8 […]

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In A Challenged Luxury Furniture Market, Arhaus Swims Against The Tide

Furniture retailers got an unwelcomed surprise last year. After advancing 24% from 2019 to 2022 – rising from $64.2 billion to $80 billion – sales dropped nearly 6% to $75.3 billion in 2023. But that’s nothing compared to the decline in the high-end luxury furniture market. Some of the weaker companies, like Mitchell Gold + […]

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RH Next Steps: Prospects For RH England, Aynho Park, Memberships, Contemporary and More

RH got off to a rough start in 2023, but two new surveys among U.K. designers and HNW affluent consumers in U.S. and U.K. show green shoots for the company.

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For A Brand To Stand Out, Forget Unique Selling Proposition (USP); Adopt Unique Point of Difference (UPD)

The concept of the Unique Sales Proposition (USP) has been enshrined in marketing and sales circles for decades. Advanced by advertising executive Rosser Reeves in the late 1940s and 50s and then introduced into the lexicon in his 1961 book Reality in Advertising, he called on brands to extend their product advertising from product features to […]

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RH Prepares To Disrupt The To-The-Trade Interior Design Industry

Initially, RH CEO Gary Friedman was in a sober mood to deliver a sober message in the company’s most recent third-quarter 2022 earnings report.Though its revenues and operating margin exceeded the previous outlook, revenues dropped 14% from last year’s $1,006 million to $869 million and adjusted operating margin declined from 27.7% last to 20.8% this year. […]

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