Furniture Today - February 14, 2005

Starting price points represent a key strategic element for any leather upholstery manufacturer, propelling consumers into stores for potential stepup business and ensuring that leather satisfies a variety of tastes and pocketbooks. Starting retail price points of $599, $699 and $799 for a sofa currently are popular in the always-evolving promotional leather segment, but leath...

• Editor's Desk
• WMC officials get things done

• Industry Numbers
• La-Z-Boy profit falls 27.4%
• Flexsteel's sales, earnings decline in qtr.
• Stanley sales spike 15.3%, EPS surges 35.5% in 2004
• RAC 4Q revenues rise 4.8%
• Select Comfort 4Q sales up 8.4%
• Chromcraft posts 27.7% profits jump

• News
• Burlington Rugs set to close in April
• Broyhill to shut N.C. chair plant
• High Point seeks to double state support
• Pa. House taps Philpott as VP of sales
• Europe, meet Vegas
• Bay plans Ashley stores
• Harlem set for growth
• Furniture First Symposium inspires
• Stickley acquires Madison Square assets
• Global renamed Heirloom Traditions
• Schnadig closes Ga. framing plant
• Hillsdale offering upscale wooden daybeds
• Dixie Seating moves to bigger plant
• L&P promotes 3 senior executives
• Furniture Brands hires Ramos as sr. VP, CFO
• Mansfield promoted to CEO at Valspar
• Founder Gordon exits Restoration
• Sterling Ashmore's Morgan will head U.S. operations
• Kittle's buyer wins Showplace parking space for April market
• TV shows give companies Extreme-ly good exposure
• N.C. students seek design internships
• Simmons, King Koil affirm support for ISPA
• City Furniture eyeing mall location
• Bowman joins Thomasville as NSM
• AWFS Vegas show sets space record
• Obando joins WMC as international marketing manager
• Restonic will use GE resin in new FR foam line
• Coalition wants FR mattresses without use of toxic chemicals
• Furniture First adds 2 members, tweaks programs
• Retailers urged to think orange
• Obituaries
• John Wells Jr., West Virginia retail veteran
• Our Community
• Badcock chain salutes Customer of the Century
• TradeWinds golf event raises $16,000
• Fineman Furniture founder honored with memorial children's scholarship
• Lane helps grant wish

• Opinion Today
• America has definitely gone digital; have you?
• Letters to the Editor
• Clean up the High Point market area; or is it too late?
• You don't have to look too hard to find High Point price gouging
• Inside Out promotes Duerstock

• People Today
• Peykar elected president of ORIA
• People on the Move
• People on the Move

• Special Report
• Store networks on front burner
• Creating consumer-focused juggernauts
• Financial results

• Store Openings
• La-Z-Boy adds two stores
• Drexel launches 2nd Chicago unit
• Broyhill unveils two galleries

• Supplement
• Global Textiles Today
• A challenging time on the fabric front
• Five questions: Spotlight on designer Bess Rosefield
• Floral fantasies
• In the moment
• Plainly speaking
• Creative potpourri
• Tupelo Product Introductions
• Tupelo Product Introductions