Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 07:02:04 -0400
From: Gene Galin
Subject: Honesty, business acumen have served retailer Harold Hart well
I had gotten permission from “Furniture Today” to reprint this story –
Honesty, business acumen have served retailer Harold Hart well
By Thomas Lester – Furniture Today
Posted Monday, October 7, 2013
Siler City, NC – Ask anybody in the trade about furniture veteran Harold Hart and the first words you hear will likely be “honesty” or “integrity.”
Hart, owner of Hart Furniture in Siler City, N.C., is known in the industry as one of its most sincere voices. The longtime distributor and retailer is also renowned for his knack for turning closeouts into big business.
“He would sell (closeouts) and furnish them for retail stores to have events with, at tremendous values,” said retired furniture executive Max Garner. “He would buy a lot of it at big discounts and pass it along. His margins were very slim. The people who dealt with him got good value.”
Retail and sales veteran Gary Woodham said that when Hart, who is battling leukemia, promised something, his words were as good as money in the bank.
“Harold’s one of the few people in the industry you can do handshake deals with and not worry about it,” Woodham said of his longtime friend. “His word is his bond.”
Hart’s memory for good deeds and repaying them in kind stands out, too.
Read the entire story at
http://www.chathamjournal.com/weekly/business/localbusiness/honesty-business-acumen-have-served-retailer-harold-hart-well-131007.shtml