Furniture Today - February 9, 2004

Even as formal dining remains a mainstay on retail floors, suppliers keep tweaking the category's piece selection to accommodate changing consumer preferences. Looks in formal dining still lean heavily toward traditional, but these days a credenza is nearly as likely to show up on a retail ticket as a full china.

• Bedding Today
• Major story on sleep misses bedding's key role

• Business Today
• Pier 1, Havertys, Bombay score Jan. revenue gains
• Flexsteel 2Q sales jump 48.3%
• Rent-Way's same-store revenues up 6.6% in 1Q but net loss mounts
• Fourth qtr. revenues flat for Sears Canada
• Culp prepays large chunk of outstanding senior notes

• News
• Bumgarner to join FMCA as EVP
• Joseph Dean Co. taps Apple
• NHFA plans mgr. institute March 7-10
• Rebound really here?
• Rent-A-Center acquiring Rainbow
• Blood drive set for Tupelo
• Registration for IWF now open on show Web site
• Smith sleeper features Serta
• Mattress Giant, vendors linked via FurnishNet
• YHFE, WithIt examine leadership
• Klein to succeed Kahn at Macy's East
• Simmons shifts sales, marketing execs
• Ortho Mattress acquires 10 Warehouse leases
• Corrections & amplifications
• Drexel store debuts in Westchester County
• Pa. House stops shipping some New Standards DR
• Invista taps more execs
• Obituaries
• Obituaries

• Opinion Today
• The exceptional lives of our industry's leaders
• 'Realistic' ways to solve our image problems (?)
• Fancy words for pushing down prices

• People Today
• Lane promotes one, hires two
• People on the Move
• People on the Move

• Special Report
• Cologne Report
• Strong euro in spotlight at Cologne
• Club 8 wins kudos for BoConcept stores
• La-Z-Boy Europe tightens market focus, broadens line
• Activity strong for U.S. exhibitors in Cologne
• Market Report
• New San Fran moves pay off in wood
• China BR sources set backup plans
• Get ready for duties, cool the rhetoric, Epperson advises
• Upholstery producers ratchet up intros
• Cisco, Lazar beef up lines targeting new demographics
• Youth stretching to lure teens
• Leather resources showcase cut-and-sew programs
• San Fran parties liven up market
• Specialty bedding moves front and center in San Fran
• Restonic offers first airbeds
• Hiddenbed meets office, sleeping space needs
• Casual dining reaches for new options
• Motion mfrs. play it safe
• Armen Art debuts Chinese-made leather industry

• Store Openings
• Broyhill unveils Showplace galleries in Ohio and Conn.
• La-Z-Boy launches Ind. unit
• USA Baby opening 3 stores

• Up Front
• Europeans have fun again
• In Paris, Maison sports loads of color
• DOC picks 7 Chinese producers to audit in antidumping probe
• Federated centralizing home goods buying for five store divisions
• Inaugural IFAM hits Vegas
• Henredon taps McKee as president, COO
• McGuinnes resigns as Ekornes USA president
• Flexsteel promotes two
• GERS makes staff changes
• Kellar joins Furniture/Today