Furniture Today - November 12, 2001

Everybody eats, and everybody needs a place to eat. Across the nation, households plan to spend more than $1.5 billion dollars on casual dining furniture and nearly $3 billion on formal dining furniture this year. What's even more encouraging is that, unlike for some other product categories, planned spending is projected to rise considerably higher than the amount spent in 2000.

• Bedding Today
• New flammability rules coming, in a year or two

• Business Today
• LifeStyle writeoff hurts Masco
• Simmons turns profit as sales drop
• October results mixed for retailers
• DMI sales decline 7.3% for fiscal year
• NYSE accepts Rowe's plan to comply with listing rules

• News
• Kaplan named senior VP of stores at Levitz
• HomeLife leases soon up for grabs
• Bush taking whole-room approach
• Deveault re-elected QFMA chief
• Vegas mart closes deals
• AFMA expects weak 4Q
• Krause's names Ploy president
• Thomasville sponsors performance
• Las Vegas may challenge San Fran
• Ethan Allen focuses on tighter collections
• Kathwari: 'We're proceeding according to plan'
• Ethan Allen returning to Little Rock area
• Bernhardt sues Collezione Europa over patent

• Opinion Today
• Why we should embrace XML standard, and soon
• Some very familiar faces tackle new territories
• There's no place like home (shows)

• People Today
• Bayt promoted to VP, general counsel at Badcock
• People on the Move
• People on the Move

• Q and A
• Buffett far from finished with furniture

• Special Report
• Consumer Buying Trends
• Young ethnic populations good prospects
• Retailer Profile
• Born to retail: Pa. merchant a natural
• e-Business
• IBM measures Web use for e-business
• E-business spending to top $1.3 trillion in 2001
• Connecting with suppliers
• Downloads equal savings
• Knowing where the trucks are
• Connecting the world
• Lending a new name for better service
• Indonesian producers open online shops

• Store Openings
• Montgomery's installs Bassett
• Ethan Allen continues to grow
• Star opens with England gallery
• Jennifer adds two stores
• Atlanta gets Roche-Bobois unit
• Norwalk debuts in Melbourne
• Thomasville grows in metro D.C.

• Up Front
• Calvin Klein and Nourison preview contemporary rugs
• House2Home set to close
• Thomasville to import Vignettes brand
• Hyundai moving to California
• Home Co. launches Atlanta store
• SoHo Today conference on tap for March 21-22
• Furndex a B2B casualty?
• Durham's Mead to retire
• Thody sets May retirement
• Dutailier names Godbout
• Ikea's new N.A. chief aims to improve service
• Ikea sets bigger Washington unit