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Bassett Furniture Industries helps consumers furnish their homes with custom furniture and coordinated accessories. Its Bassett Home Furnishings stores offer free in-home or virtual design consultations to help customers choose furniture. Company-owned stores generate most of its revenue, and custom upholstered furniture is their largest sales category.
The company also earns wholesale revenue by supplying independently owned Bassett Home Furnishings stores, other furniture retailers and interior design firms. Most wholesale sales flow through the Bassett store network. It manufactures most of the furniture it sells wholesale in the United States, using domestic and globally sourced materials, while sourcing most formal bedroom and dining furniture from overseas factories, primarily in Vietnam.
The business depends heavily on shoppers visiting its stores and choosing its designs. Its website supports product research, purchases and contact with store consultants, but online sales remain small compared with in-store sales. Declining store traffic has made the retail model more challenging, and Bassett continues to assess which stores to keep.
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Bassett’s results hinge on shoppers’ willingness to spend on furniture, visits to its branded stores and demand for its custom furniture, predominantly made in the United States.
Ethan Allen competes with Bassett for shoppers buying customizable upholstered and wood furniture; both make furniture and sell it through branded stores offering interior design services. Ethan Allen’s sales of customizable furniture offer a read on the consumer spending that also matters to Bassett.
Housing Starts (Sep)
For Bassett, readings on new-home building and sales matter because housing activity can shift confidence and demand for its custom furniture at company-owned and licensee stores, changing retail purchases and wholesale shipments.
Expected1.31MLast release1.275M
If it comes in above expectations
If the reading is above the 1.31M estimate, it is above the previous 1.275M. More building and home sales could strengthen demand for Bassett furniture at its stores and from licensees, lifting store sales and wholesale shipments; more permits may signal support for that demand ahead.
If it comes in below expectations
Less building and home sales could weaken buyer confidence and reduce demand for Bassett furniture at its stores and from licensees, lowering store sales and wholesale shipments; fewer permits may point to less support ahead.
Ethan Allen Interiors Inc earningsETD
Ethan Allen's report will show whether shoppers are still buying customizable upholstered and wood furniture, a demand signal for Bassett's overlapping business.
Use Ethan Allen's sales of customizable furniture to gauge whether shoppers are still buying this kind of product. Stronger sales suggest demand for customizable upholstered and wood furniture is holding up, a supportive signal for Bassett's comparable products; weaker sales suggest that spending may be softening, putting more pressure on Bassett's store sales and wholesale orders. The takeaway is whether demand in this directly competing category is supporting Bassett or adding pressure.
Retail Sales MoM (Oct)
Retail sales track consumer spending at stores, so stronger or weaker spending can change how much Bassett’s customers buy its custom upholstery, wood furniture and other home furnishings through its stores, licensees and independent retailers.
Stronger retail sales suggest consumers are spending more, which may support purchases of Bassett furniture through its stores and retail accounts; weaker sales suggest less spending and a risk of fewer furniture purchases, store sales and wholesale orders.
