WGSN and HFN Magazine Enter Partnership

NEW YORK, Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- WGSN (www.wgsn.com), the world's leader in style and trend forecasting, today announced an ongoing strategic partnership with recognized industry leaders in furniture and home interiors: HFN Magazine, a leading title for the U.S. home industry. Through this exclusive partnership, visitors to the HFN Magazine (www.hfnmag.com) website, and readers of HFN, will enjoy extracts of unique and unparalleled WGSN global trend coverage.

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This exclusive partnership marks the forthcoming launch of WGSN-homebuildlife.com (www.wgsn-homebuildlife.com), a new trend forecasting entity and product development tool focused on the needs of the global home and interiors industries.

Through this partnership, WGSN-homebuildlife will provide content to hfnmag.com, such that visitors might better understand future shifts in consumer preference and product development trends product designs they can reference to prepare for future seasons.

This will be reciprocated by WGSN-homebuildlife accessing coverage from HFN's industry coverage to bolster the US industry intelligence component of www.wgsn-homebuildlife.com.

"The forthcoming launch of www.wgsn-homebuildlife.com, will be our trend analysis and creative inspiration service for the Home and Interiors industries, and is a natural follow-on to the success of www.wgsn.com," said Stephen Morgan, commercial director of WGSN-homebuildlife. "By partnering with the most recognized and respected b2b publishing brands in home interiors and furniture, we are not only demonstrating the caliber of our powerful trend forecasting tool, but are also providing an unparalleled audience an exclusive glimpse into its capabilities."

To learn more about the partnership and view the unique content, visit www.hfnmag.com and www.wgsn-homebuildlife.com .

About WGSN

WGSN is the global authority on style and design. The company identifies and analyzes current and future style trends and provides its customers with state-of-the-art online tools that that can be used to create commercially successful products and services.  WGSN defines and shapes wining style and design for over 36,000 customers globally. WGSN customers include many of the world's leading apparel, style, design and retail companies including Levi Strauss & Co., Adidas, Nickelodeon & Viacom Consumer Products, Benetton Group, and Marks and Spencers, among others. WGSN is based in London and has offices in New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, Los Angeles, Melbourne and Tokyo. For more information, visit www.wgsn.com. Follow WGSN on Twitter: @wgsn.

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