Furniture Today - February 24, 2003

Furniture/Today's exclusive Consumer Buying Trends Survey presents a comprehensive look at the demographics of American households that are shopping for and buying home furnishings. The information comes from the responses of 31,505 households to a survey conducted from early December through early January.

• Bedding Today
• Closings, grease marks spark retailer responses

• Business Today
• Masco earnings up 52.8% in 4Q
• Hooker added to 'shadow stocks' list
• Quaker sales up 10.4% for year
• Leon's net income climbs 7.5% in 2002
• BMTC posts gains for quarter, year
• Valspar sales rise 8.8%, net income up 24% in 1Q
• Financial results

• Insider's View
• Here's a recycled column ... on furniture trade-ins!

• News
• Furniture retailers skirt credit card fraud on Web
• Peterman: Jeffco alliance is right fit for 'special' brand
• A blizzard of trouble
• Jeffco, Peterman forge link
• Big Kahuna offers retro Hawaiian prints
• Smith to receive IHFRA's Rudy award
• Kaiser, Jahze end link, drop Maison line
• Season's rug designs sophisticated, bold
• Leggett & Platt acquires rug underlay company
• Caribbean trip snowed under
• Roberts leaves BHFC for QVC post
• Ethan Allen closing three factories
• Browne leaving Wickes VP position after 17 years
• Arcade building readied for market showrooms
• California due to post mattress flame regs
• Bedding Benchmarks
• Futons gaining ground
• Spotlight on bedding
• City Club guests enjoying Select Comfort 7000 beds
• Therapedic, Soft-Tex team up

• Opinion Today
• Standard writes the book on innovation, reinvention
• Cross-market dialog trend welcome
• Letters to the Editor
• Letter to the editor
• Corrections & Amplifications

• People Today
• Progressive taps Van Farowe for new Western sales post
• Hellenic Rug Imports names Phillips VP of sales for U.S.
• People on the Move
• People on the Move

• Special Report
• Youth producers aiming to fill voids
• Consumer Buying Trends
• Furniture buying practices
• Top furniture buys
• Master bedroom
• Youth/teen bedroom
• Other adult bedroom
• Kitchen/dinette table, chairs
• Dining room
• Entertainment centers/armoires
• Curios
• Cocktail/end/sofa/coffee tables
• Desks and other home office
• Sofas with no motion
• Chairs, no motion
• Reclining chairs
• Chairs that swivel, rock or glide
• Motion sofas
• Sofa-sleepers & futons
• Mattress/boxspring
• Area rugs
• Decorative pillows and throws, wall décor, other decorative accessories
• Lamps
• Generational buying patterns

• Store Openings
• Bassett adds BFD in Atlanta
• French Heritage opens at ABC
• Story & Lee installs Lane gallery
• Lea youth areas debut in Ill., Mo.
• N.C. store adds Berkline gallery

• Up Front
• Time is right for floor clocks
• Global to buy N.C. Singer plant
• Décor-Rest, Alexander Julian teaming up
• AFMA: Wood shipments slip 1.8%, uph. up 11%
• Tupelo activity brisk despite uncertainties
• Far East shows set to roll
• Tyrell concert to help kick off 70-piece line of classics at Pennsylvania House
• Better Sleep Council to become ISPA arm