Furniture Today - March 25, 2002

Taking a peek into its fashion-driven past, Bloomingdale's earlier this month launched a home furnishings-wide event called "Everything is Coming Up Roses." Under the aegis of Lester Gribetz, the department store's vice president of home furnishings fashion, the home departments offered a plethora of exclusive products with the rose as a connecting theme.

• Bedding Today
• Rocky Mountain highs prompt ISPA awards

• Business Today
• Restoration Hardware posts flat sales, net losses
• Shermag earnings fall 33.8%
• Keller sales down 21.7% for year
• Heilig-Meyers reports $1.6M net loss in Jan.
• Vaughan has loss despite 4.7% sales rise

• News
• Styles relax for April
• British kitchen source buys Domain for $25M
• QFMA pulls plug on Toronto June show
• Culp looks to sell wet-printed flock business
• Lectra offers custom fabric cutting system
• Scoperta fabric show at new venue
• Loomcraft launches higher-price division
• Heimtextil Select show postponed until 2003
• Sklar-Pepplar exec pushing ad hoc June 1-3 mini-market
• Wood resources ready to feed rebound at retail
• Vibrant reds, plums, blues perk up upholstery intros
• Market Authority to handle hotel reservations
• Gennet outlines San Francisco Mart's expansion plans
• Fire shuts down Italian fabric source
• AFMA offers distribution of press kits
• Sears Canada readying store near Vancouver
• Factory orders up 2% in January
• Karel slates Tampa show for March '03
• Horich Parks changes name
• Obituaries
• Obituaries

• Opinion Today
• It's a good thing I can drive to High Point
• Alive, well, and moving to build the business
• Some issues that never get resolved

• People Today
• Wade promoted to VP at Campbell Leather
• Moosehead wins first Maine award
• People on the Move
• People on the Move

• Special Report
• Office chair sales spin on price, style
• Office superstores key on value

• Store Openings
• Brennan's installs 6th French Heritage shop
• Florida Furniture unit open
• Mattress Specialists debuts 3rd unit
• W.S. Badcock adds Zephyrhills store
• Baker introduces Tribeca store

• Up Front
• LeatherTrend to launch fabric unit
• Mattress Discounters, Mattress Firm swap 12 stores
• ADL to honor Koenig, Bernhardt
• Master Design CEO resigns
• Carpenter steps down as Kincaid SVP of sales
• Millner joins Magnussen
• Case to address IT meet
• Shoemaker first woman to lead IHFRA in rep group's 68 years
• Hyundai appears to be closing