Furniture Today - January 28, 2002

The Western Home Furnishings Assn. honored its retiring executive director, Dave Lane, with a benefit fundraiser during the San Francisco Winter Market. The event at the Mark Hopkins Inter-Continental Hotel, along with additional donations, raised $9,000 for the Parkinson's Institute in Sunnyvale, Calif.

• Bedding Today
• Profits reach new highs with high-end bedding

• Business Today
• FBI sales drop 10.6%, net income slips 45.2%
• Lane sells IHFC stake
• Sears Canada net earnings plunge 58.3% despite 5.8% sales increase
• Buffett acquires remaining Shaw shares
• Guilford Mills gets reprieve
• Chromcraft to buy Court Square stake

• News
• QIP to market synthetic leathers from Japan
• Leder starts recruiting firm
• Linon to take 220 Elm space
• Mfrs. rooting for Kmart
• San Fran continues upbeat trend
• Lexington turns up heat on branding
• Gold Bond taps two veterans for VP positions
• Sleep Country operating with Gers software
• Micro*D sets Jan. 31 seminar on Internet use
• True Seating to make Lane office chairs, RTA
• Scheu named Kimball Home general mgr.
• Motor carrier moves to N.C.
• New Lexington display a hit with N.C. retailer
• Lexington will close N.C. youth BR plant
• Sleepmaster to pay Leggett first
• Wang joins DMI Desk
• Kathy Ireland, Shaw launch youth rug line
• Aurora set to market Jeep office chair line
• Quaker offers Kaswere line
• Rent-A-Center faces stockholder suits
• Obituaries
• Obituaries

• Opinion Today
• You really want $70M for joint consumer ads?!?
• My adventures down a no-interest brick road
• Kmart: Self-fulfilling prophecies

• People Today
• Davis given Badcock community award
• Houston named partner at Everest consultants
• People on the Move
• People on the Move

• Special Report
• Bedding Report
• Luxury bedding speaks volumes to retailers and their customers
• Market Report
• San Fran wood activity sparks hope
• Upholstery focuses on details, nostalgia
• Leather producers hope SF sets positive trend for year
• Home entertainment dances to new beats
• Eager buyers spur brisk activity in SOHO
• Motion moving to quickening business beat
• Youth sports lots of solid wood
• Kathy Ireland readying leather, fabric upholstery lines
• Women want more information in post-9/11 world
• San Fran marketgoers know how to network
• Product Report
• Youth furniture goes beyond basic bed, dresser

• Up Front
• Durham's Orville Mead dies
• Colalillo buy creates Simmons Uph. Canada
• Outstanding rug designs saluted
• Rowe will consolidate its two retail businesses
• High-end concept opens in Tulsa
• Klaussner shifts product managers
• Hyundai signs with Vegas
• New pres. at Comfort Designs
• Shermag elects chairman
• Harris in new Sandberg post
• Noonoo promotes Grasse
• 3 Havertys promotions linked to distribution improvements
• Service Merchandise hires specialists for GOB sales