All American Furniture Expo Hosts Annual Trade Show Where has this year gone? On September 8 th and 9 th the All American Furniture Expo hosts their 6 th annual furniture trade show! For those of you unfamiliar with the Furniture Expo, it is an annual trade show featuring strictly American-made furniture and accessories. Attending this show gives furniture buyers the opportunity to meet over 80 furniture manufacturers face-to-face, and to experience their beautiful products first hand. The show is located in the Lancaster County Convention Center’s 45,000 sq. foot exhibit hall, conveniently...

Lapp's Woodwork Adds New Line, Expands Options Lapp’s Woodwork has been hard at work developing new products, and you are going to love the results. Known for their custom work, Lapp’s is expanding their reputation with a new line featuring unique, hand-forged hardware. This hardware gives the new Antique Pie Safe and Storage Bench a rustic feel, while still maintaining the quality of fine furniture Lapp’s has become known for. As the rustic trend returns to homes, exposed brick and beams are becoming commonplace. As your customers change and remodel their homes they will be looking for new...

Miller Bedrooms Unveils Two Bedrooms Sets and Quick Ship Option Miller Bedrooms has joined All American Wholesalers as a featured manufacturer in May, and they came in with some beautiful new bedroom suites. The Roxbury Set and the Marcella Set were showcased at the 2016 Hardwood Furniture Guild Show, and are now available to buyers around the country. The Roxbury Set is Miller’s shaker option made with inset drawers and curves on the 1- inch tops. They are stocking this set in brown maple, unfinished, allowing your customer to apply a stain of their choosing. Miller has applied their new...

Ames Woodworking Expands Line, Adds Options Ames Woodworking is known for their customizable furniture lines, and this winter they have expanded their options to further satisfy their dealers. In March they have unveiled their Simplicity Bedroom Suite, and with it numerous options to enhance each piece. The Simplicity Bedroom Suite follows the latest furniture trend of straight, clean lines. By going back to the basics, Ames offers your customers a bedroom suite that will go well with any bedroom aesthetic. Don’t let the “Simplicity” name fool you, however. Each piece in the suite is fully...

Connect with Wholesalers at the Ohio Hardwood Furniture Market The Hardwood Furniture Guild is hosting their annual Ohio Hardwood Furniture Market on March 30-31 at the Buckeye Event Center in Dalton, Ohio. This years show will feature over 80 hardwood furniture manufacturers showcasing their latest and greatest products. The Hardwood Furniture Guild is the nation's largest concentration of hardwood furniture manufacturers, making this show a unique opportunity to connect with Ohio wholesalers. They work very hard to make this show accessible to buyers, and manufacturer booths are decked out...

Country Value Continues to Innovate their Country Classic Collection In 2015 Country Value Woodworks unveiled two new furniture lines at the All American Furniture Expo. The Monarch Dining and Olde Farmstead Occasional collections showed extremely well at the expo to strong reviews from dealers, and lots of orders. The Monarch Dining suite comes with some interesting new features, including a server with wine racks, and slots to conveniently store glasses. The line also includes a kitchen island available with your choice of a 1.5 inch thick butcher block top, or a standard 1 inch thick top...

The Keystone Wholesale Show is Just One Month Away! It’s hard to believe, but the 2016 Keystone Wholesale Show is only one month away! Over the last 6 months Keystone has been busy, locking in over 70 manufacturers, and putting together great giveaways for buyers. BLI is providing FREE lunch for all dealers in attendance, DavCo Advertising will be giving a $2,000 and $500 door prize, and Pine Hill is also doing a $500 door prize. Tabor Hill Wood Shop and Windy Valley Woodworks are also both doing $100 door prizes. In 2016, retail customers are looking for American-made. In a recent consumer...

2015 Furniture Trends Feature New Colors, and a Return to Minimalism 2015 has been an interesting year in furniture design. I am given the pleasure of updating manufacturer profile pages with new products, and attending trade shows where manufacturers showcase their newest pieces. Being relatively new to the wholesale market, it has been very interesting getting the opportunity to follow furniture trends over the year,(and noticing how out of touch I am with my apartment furniture). As I was browsing the booths at the 2015 All American Furniture Expo with a friend, I noticed a new stain that...

Keystone Wholesale Shows Under New, But Familiar Ownership The Keystone Wholesale shows were formed in 2002 with the primary purpose of helping our local plain businesses sell their products to wholesale buyers from across the country. While they still have a passion for the plain communities, they now include manufacturers from all over the country. In March of 2015 the partners at Keystone decided it was time to take a step back from the shows to give them more time to spend with their grandchildren. They put the Keystone Wholesale Shows on the market, with the intent of finding a buyer...

Save Your Customers Time and Money with Fisher's Quality Products Fisher’s Quality Products is the manufacturer of quality Amish-made convertible cribs. Being a father himself, owner Joseph Fisher knows how difficult and expensive it can be to transition children from cribs, to toddler beds, to day beds, and finally to full-sized beds. In 2010 Joseph began Fisher's Quality Products with the mission to provide parents with an affordable, easy solution to bed training. Customers are given the option of buying individual cribs, or purchasing conversion packages to accommodate their child’s...