Home Goods Online is Canada’s only business-to-business news and information service covering the furniture, mattress, major appliance and home furnishings (lamps and lighting, occasional furniture, floor covering and decorative accessories) sectors of the big ticket home goods market. HGO is also a forum for the dissemination of market research and hard-hitting articles on best practices for Canadian retailers through our three primary platforms: our web presence at www.HomeGoodsOnline.ca; our bi-weekly newsletter, the HGO This Week; and, our quarterly electronic magazine, the HGO Merchandiser. Michael J. Knell, HGO’s founder, publisher and editor has researched, observed and written about Canada’s furniture, mattress, major appliance, home furnishings and floor covering industries for the past 30 years.