Furniture Today - September 17, 2001
Cover Story
Leather grading system sets price guides, varies by vendor
When is a leather sofa a pricey $2,599 or a more modest $799? When the leather that covers it makes the grade. The leather grading system employed by leather upholstery manufacturers and suppliers is used as a means of differentiating and marketing individual types of leather by price, based on quality or style.
- News
- APRO honors top dealers
- British company hopes ads turn consumers on
- Leggett division acquires latex manufacturing facility
- Delgaudio, Greenbaum join Boyles; Grant promoted
- Cohen's signs with Storis
- Dinec contest marks 10 years
- FurnitureFan to develop Web sites for Best Brands dealers
- Berkshire Hathaway now 2% stakeholder in Office Depot
- Epperson to speak at Ohio NHFA meeting
- Premarket pre-empted
- Playing it safe in wood
- Tragedy touches N.Y., Va. stores
- Occasional increasingly tied to case goods, upholstery
- Hooker links with PGA Home, designer McMillan
- FurnishNet sets B2B links for Calif. retailer
- Excelsior doubling High Point showroom
- Sheppard replaces Liddy at Valspar
- RightLinx taps Risen, King, Lowenthal
- Katz gets Broyhill post
- Marketgoers scramble for alternate ways home
- Rooms To Go helps nab suspect
- Several industry events canceled
- New York retailer looks to relief efforts
- Shaw Rugs sets push into big-box channel
- Couristan celebrating 75th
- Nourison will unveil Klein rugs
- Obituaries
- Dennis Lombard, retired retailer
- Supplement
- 2001 Furniture Store Performance Report
- Large Stores
- Western Stores
- Midwestern Stores
- Southern Stores
- Northeastern Stores
- Furniture sales near $50 billion
- All Stores
- Small Stores
- Medium Stores
- People Today
- Chorman named to top financial post at Foamex
- People on the Move
- People on the Move
- Up Front
- Opinion Today
- Store Openings
- Bedding Today
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