Furniture Today - February 11, 2002

After two years as sponsor of the galleryfurniture.com college football bowl game, Gallery Furniture here is pulling out. But it's not about to disappear from the Houston sports scene. Unwilling to bump up his financial commitment to the level the bowl's directors want, Gallery's Jim McIngvale is turning his attentions to pro baseball and women's tennis.

• Bedding Today
• Sealy going for the gold at the Winter Olympics

• Business Today
• Chromcraft earnings off 43.3%
• Select Comfort makes $1.1M in 4Q
• Cone Mills cuts losses in 4th qtr.
• Pier 1 sales rise in January while Bombay's dip
• Flexsteel 2Q sales down 10.9%; income falls 58.8%

• News
• Staples to close 30
• N.C. festival off until '03
• LifeStyle will linger to sell other assets
• Corber to buy LFI fabric group
• Specialty Sleep Expo set for March in Chicago
• Execs to buy Lexington
• Levitz-Seaman's may add 18 HomeLifes
• Bank building's suitability for market space doubted
• Collezione Europa acquires IDP
• Marge Carson showroom, adjoining building to become Hamilton Place
• Sofa Express to get Seaman's Ohio stores
• Cantrex promotes Goudreau, looks to expand
• BrandSource sponsors NASCAR racer
• Obituaries
• Obituaries

• Opinion Today
• Well, maybe the sky isn't falling after all
• If times are a-changin', search for new cheese
• Marking Marcus' unmincing words

• People Today
• VanNoppen launches furniture marketing, PR firm
• Clayton Marcus picks Whitener for new VP post
• Risen leaves RightLinx post
• Albertson named CEO at WinsLoew
• FurnitureFind taps Atchinson
• Palliser honors outstanding employees
• People on the Move
• People on the Move

• Special Report
• Toms-Price grand opening draws 5,000
• Retail commitment counts in RTA
• On 'Target' with value, style
• Big K posts $700 million for furniture as industry watches
• Lowes knows home décor
• RTA news & notes

• Store Openings
• Conlin's installs Broyhill in new store
• Lane launches three galleries

• Up Front
• New owner reopens 29 Krause's stores
• McKee leaves Home Co. for Henredon; McDonough takes over as Home's CEO
• Nov. factory orders down 3%
• Havertys' 4Q earnings up 25%
• AFMA to assess U.S. manufacturing
• Broyhill taps two execs
• Fenstermacher joins F/T
• VanFarowe starts sales agency
• Beaulieu to sell rug division to Springs Inds.
• Schneiderman's will unveil first superstore, sets lifestyle display
• Habersham to debut Plaza Hotel wood line