in the Windy City

This is another week on the road and it’s Chicago – a change of pace from a busy couple of days in NYC last week. No baseball games this week unless the rain soaked Midwest wants me to bring more rain upon them.

We’re gearing up for High Point and that means some early dealer visits to secure market attendance and hopefully getting Harden to top of mind for 2011. We have a great introduction of new product, but more important we have a binder full of good merchandise and much of it is new in the past few years. It is a challenge to secure floor space and an even bigger battle to win retailer commitments as the population of home furnishing retailers continues to shrink.

I’ll add some more contract calls this week as well as we have a number of quotes pending and some future projects we hope to be part of. While we’re well known on the residential side, we’re also a well respected supplier on the commercial side. We’ve furnished a lot of corporate headquarters, GSA facilities and hospitality projects. As we approach the end of 2010 we expect to secure some additional projects that will make the year a strong one for the commercial side.