Community impact PeopLoungers, a motion upholstery producer in Nettleton, was among the first to throw its support behind the market with a permanent showroom in the early days. Now, it's helping drive the need for the new Building V under construction. The Tupelo showroom will match the size of its High Point showroom. It brings in a great number of people to Tupelo. To ensure the market improves, Cleveland's staff attends markets in High Point, San Francisco, Atlanta, Dallas, Toronto and other locations annually.
Internal evaluations come regularly as well.
After every market, we have meetings and talk about what we need to do to improve. Free staff services that provide housing and transportation assistance for buyers and competitive rates should help the market grow, Cleveland said. Emphasizing those strengths should preserve the market's existence in a competitive environment that often threatens to absorb markets. We're doing more mailouts and we're trying to reach them through e-mail. We've got a Web site.