AWFS® is currently conducting a member survey about how we can consistently deliver the highest value to all our members. You may have received an invitation on Oct 14 from sender frank@thevianovagroup.com via SurveyMonkey with the subject line: “AWFS needs your feedback! Help us improve your AWFS member experience”. Please check your SPAM if you don’t see it in […]
by Angelo Gangone, Executive VP of AWFS® In 1992, I was an unemployed 27-year-old with a wife and two-year-old daughter, looking to land my first professional gig. Fresh out of graduate school with an MBA, I walked into a woodworking machinery manufacturer’s showroom for the very first time, and that experience led to where I […]
To our dear volunteers…we can’t do it without you! We exist for YOU! In honor of National Volunteer Appreciation Week (April 18-24), AWFS® recognizes and thanks the volunteers who we serve and make our work possible! Our Volunteer Leadership commits their time to participate in regular meetings and make big decisions about the strategy and […]
Suppliers Edge, Winter 2021 Edition
Greetings AWFS® Members, We are we well on our way in the new year and the challenges of 2020 are fading quickly. COVID-19 has severely impacted many businesses and industries in the U.S., while others did quite well and some even flourished. Fortunately, from all the reports that I have read, our industry has done […]
AWFS® Suppliers’ Edge Newsletter, Summer 2020 Dear AWFS® Members, As I begin my term as President of AWFS, I am excited about what the future holds for our Industry. Even with all that is going on in our society with the COVID-19 virus, I am still very optimistic. I have been in contact with many […]
AWFS® is very excited to introduce the 2021 Tool Tour at next July’s AWFS®Fair, which will highlight manufacturers that feature the small equipment, power tools and hand tools that shops of all sizes need for their daily operations. The Tool Tour will feature a fun, interactive Rock n’ Roll theme as buyers will be incentivized […]
AWFS®Fair Welcomes Safety Exhibitors to the Show Floor Anaheim, August 19, 2020 – The Association of Woodworking & Furnishings Suppliers® (AWFS®) will include a broad spectrum of safety exhibitors on the show floor of the AWFS Fair which will take place at the upcoming AWFS®Fair, July 20-23, 2021 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The […]
To say that this year has been nothing close to what we would have expected on January 1, 2020, could possibly be the understatement of the century. Times have changed and each one of us has had to adjust our lives and more importantly, our expectations, in order to move forward. AND moving forward is […]
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