Furniture Today - March 29, 2004

Look up contemporary in a thesaurus, and you see its synonyms include modern, current, up-to-date and fresh. Those meanings may explain why contemporary has dominated case goods sales in recent years. There's no doubt that contemporary's chameleon-like ability to constantly reinvent itself contributes to its sales success.

• Bedding Today
• Specialty sleep category won't sink like waterbeds

• Business Today
• Simmons '03 sales up 13.8%
• Sleep Country 4Q revenue up 10.2%
• Hudson's Bay 4Q revenue flat; profit down 14.8%
• Financial results

• News
• Interline Italia launches galleries in 3 Cardi's stores
• Leather Italia opens Calif. warehouse
• Textile research conference set for May 16-18
• Furniture First wakes up to bedding
• Furniture First: Sharing ideas
• N.Y., Mich. dealers win contest
• 300 exhibitors set for Copenhagen show
• Montage offering retailers protection plan guarantee
• Stanley taps Sitler for operations post
• ASTM meeting to discuss voluntary leather standards
• New CEO to lead Wickes
• Wood intros play it safe
• Therapedic Int. salutes Australian licensee
• S.C. names Comfortaire to fastest-growing ranking
• Sealy among 'most admired'
• Ambrose earns MBA
• Shifman honors three retailers
• United left U.S. before acquisition
• Nicoletti promotes Tucci to new U.S. sales post
• DWR plans to go public
• Quaker names fabric veteran to head European sales office
• Bedding Benchmarks
• Bedding newsmaker: Charlie Eitel
• Obituaries
• William Griffith, veteran L&P rep

• Opinion Today
• All is uncomfortably quiet on Canadian front

• People Today
• Flexsteel taps Rhomberg for N. Central sales post
• People on the Move
• People on the Move

• Special Report
• Color in motion
• Premarket Report
• Case goods action brisk
• Upholstery tilts toward formal
• Retail Report
• American builds a city
• New store planned in the north
• Style Survey
• About the wood style survey

• Store Openings
• Parlin's opens Dick Idol gallery
• England has 5th dedicated store
• Clayton Marcus in Ga.'s Sweat
• Leather by Design debuts in Fla.

• Up Front
• Brick buys 82 United stores in Canada
• Big Spring Air licensee seeking reorganization
• Sears Canada to test sleep shops
• Innerspring import tariffs nixed
• Jones retiring as Sealy chairman
• Pair of showrooms set for October
• Sealy raising wholesale bedding prices 6%
• Master Design hires 3
• Gacka VP at Macy's Home
• Rep 'brings it on home' for the president
• Kluft, Robb form strategic alliance to market Aireloom, Chittenden & Eastman nationwide
• Culp relocating H.P. offices, showroom