Furniture Today - March 3, 2003

With the opening of a store in Chiefland, Fla., W.S. Badcock Corp. now has 100 locations operating with the Badcock mp; more concept. In addition to the Chiefland store, which is owned and operated by Carol Tew, Badcock has also completed Badcock mp; more conversions in Mobile, Citronelle and Andalusia, Alabama; Tifton, Waycross and Statesboro, Georgia; and Perry, Napl...

• Bedding Today
• Dear furniture stores: There's bucks in bedding

• Business Today
• Confidence nosedives to lowest since Oct. '93
• Culp margins up, sales down
• Aaron '02 revenues up 17.2%
• Shermag doubles 3Q net income

• News
• FurnishNet founder Tim Morton leaves
• Spirits high in Tupelo
• Drexel's Tuscan Sun to rise in April
• Portugal fair stirs business with styles
• Canadian markets, conferences set
• Hanna directing OFMA member services
• Fraschetti is Primo sales mgr.
• Buyers from 8 states shop Minneapolis market
• Retailers Assn. of Massachusetts honors Alperts Furniture
• Drexel Heritage creates three-brand ad campaign
• Shermag beefing up dining room line
• Market Prayer Breakfast set for April 2
• Thailand fair to spotlight indigenous parawood
• Corrections & Aamplifications
• A–Z Media taps Craft, Orme
• Obituaries
• Herbert Wolf, retired Pennsylvania retailer

• Opinion Today
• Let's get economic ball rolling in right direction

• People Today
• Broyhill's Medlock gets 1st Generations of Pride award
• People on the Move
• People on the Move

• Special Report
• Market Report
• Fresh styles, specials drive Tupelo biz
• New faces, fresh twists key Tupelo leather
• Wood arena adds pizzazz
• More case goods than usual introduced in Tupelo
• Motion remains industry bright spot
• Retailer Profile
• Canadian store carves out fashion niche
• Sales floor a lot like classy home
• Web site seen as key part of marketing strategy
• Ads aim for impact, consistency

• Store Openings
• Norwalk opens nine Your Home Fashion Centers

• Supplement
• Bedding Today
• Successful stores hardly ever sleep
• Futon, specialty sleep category on a roll
• Select Comfort: It's a numbers game
• Touting better sleep
• Firm or soft? The answers are on the cards

• Up Front
• Calif. wants tough standards
• Segusino reborn under new owner
• Hobby Lobby owner eyes big home furnishings chain
• NHFA to honor Masin, Lipton
• Finneran joins American Century
• Southwood hires Bingham
• Mega Group taps Buckman
• Haltom in new post at Mayo
• Big Serta licensees complete merger
• ATMI to hear CPSC chief
• YHFE leader conference wins praise