Furniture Today - September 10, 2001

The online marketplace for youth furniture continues to explode, and some big name retailers have recently joined the fray alongside an abundance of specialty players. Most recently, The Bombay Company launched its Bombay KIDS collection of children's furnishings available online and via mail-order catalog.

• Bedding Today
• Remembering the man who meant luxury ticking

• Business Today
• Natuzzi 2Q sales up 18.7%
• July indicators mixed
• Pier 1 same-store sales up, Bombay's flat
• Bassett expects to break even in 3Q
• Financial results

• News
• Labor Day sales strong
• Brick tests big, upscale Toronto unit
• Rebirth energizes Universal
• Cantrex, Mega set Quebec City activities
• Dick Idol: A man for all seasons
• Capel showing Idol rugs
• NHFA, AFMA explore PR link
• NHFA: Ask Me Anything
• Sisk joins Meadowbrook
• Calligaris to debut new space at premarket
• Canada summer markets exhibit staying power
• Latex Foam opens temporary plant
• ADF names Stein sales VP
• WithIt hosts presentation in New York
• Quaker hires its first CIO
• FIDX to discuss bar codes Sept. 20
• Rent-A-Center disputes discrimination charges
• Corrections & Amplifications
• Rent-to-own industry likes pending legislation
• Wisconsin considering RTO changes
• Rhodes golf tourney raises $12,000
• Psychologist, design guru share insights with HFIA
• HFIA goes coastal for meeting

• Opinion Today
• Trilliums: It's time for everyone to get involved
• What you should do when times are tough
• Ikea service even better overseas

• Retailer Profile
• This family business is the real McCall

• Supplement
• Consumer Buying Trends
• Youth furniture
• Only the good buy young
• Kids need furniture; parents buy it
• Parent groups spending more than $750 million on youth BR this year

• Up Front
• Good turnout expected at Quebec market
• DMI discontinuing promo BR line
• Simmons will show at Grandover in Oct.
• Hooker lays off 100, resumes 40-hour weeks
• Idol at Klaussner's premarket
• Vegas market tax break on hold
• Sleepmaster names NY, SF execs
• Havertys sales fall, but margins better
• Booth heads RiversEdge product development
• Lane plans 500,000-sq.-ft. Miss. distribution center
• Corinthian readies facility
• Trevino leaves Fashion Bed