Furniture Today - November 19, 2001

The vast majority of the projected 1.7 million annual visitors to a completed World Market Center here will not be coming to furniture markets. They will be visiting the 1 million-square-foot convention center, the project's Design Center, an antiques gallery and another retail segment of the project.

• Bedding Today
• System aims to bridge mattress return problems

• Business Today
• Burlington in Chapter 11
• La-Z-Boy sales drop 5.7%
• Natuzzi sales up 14.7% worldwide but decline 1.2% in the Americas
• Mattress Discounters 3Q sales slip 4.3%

• Insider's View
• Rebound in retail may solve many problems

• News
• Shanks has only Henredon store ... for now
• Two Western retailers say sustainability appeals to shoppers
• Cooklin: A passion to improve lives
• Four manufacturers say they'll show in Vegas
• Industry to key in on survival at Key Biscayne
• Bernhardt sets minimum retail pricing
• EPA boiler emission rules trigger N.C. queries
• Stratton to head CPSC
• Rug importers mull Pakistan options
• Bombay tests off-mall unit

• Opinion Today
• The next big design wave could be...
• Our market, stock market can react quite differently
• Vegas market looking more like pretty sure bet
• Don't confuse branding, marketing
• Letters to the Editor
• Letters to the Editor

• People Today
• FurnitureFind's parent names Durkin president
• People on the Move
• People on the Move

• Special Report
• RTA steps up, delivers style
• Sauder's QBits offers customizable variety
• Evolving video electronics inspire change in furniture
• Function is pivotal in home office lines
• AFMA Report
• AFMA hears retailers on key issues
• Bassett given Distinguished Service Award
• AFMA resolution supports U.S. war against terrorism
• Kathwari will succeed Prillaman as AFMA chief
• A New York social affair

• Up Front
• F/T names Bassett, Koenigs top leaders
• South Cone plan aims to preserve Amazon forests, indigenous people
• Slumberland to expand to three more states
• AFMA taps Pulaski's Bill Perdue
• Klaussner closing Plant 8