Furniture Today - February 28, 2005

The International Furniture Transportation and Logistics Council will hold its annual conference for managers at Lago Mar Resort and Club here April 27–29. The theme is Meeting the Furniture Transportation and Logistics Challenges of 2005. Sessions will focus on such topics as finding adequate carrier capacity to move furniture during the peak shipping season ...

• Bedding Today
• Tupelo market packs plenty of bedding punch

• Editor's Desk
• Tupelo: Good food, fun and furniture

• Industry Numbers
• Quaker 4Q sales fall 15.4%
• Culp posts 3Q loss as sales drop 9.8%
• Aaron 4Q profits jump 34.1%
• Masco sales, profits up in 4Q, yr.
• Havertys: 4Q earnings to be down

• News
• CEO Milliken steps down at OfficeMax
• Vendor pays Rowe $725K in settlement
• Mitchell Gold Co. buys former Bassett plant
• BenchCraft leases Miss. facility for distribution
• Milan show will travel to N.Y., Moscow
• Adam Levine leaving N.Y. store Basics
• Speakers set for Myriad's March 20–23 user gathering
• Rowe to debut Adler collection in N.Y. March 3
• La-Z-Boy buys 13 stores
• Badcock center opens
• Order time in Tupelo
• Investors acquire WoodMarc
• New importer Austin Gray to launch line at premarket
• Idol's Urban Craftsmen Collection on tap for April
• First High Point designer event called success
• Better Bedding to sell Select Comfort line
• Livingston buys chair line
• Robb & Stucky, Miskelly open big, bold stores in key markets
• Universal taps Siler for VP post
• O'Sullivan to leave Australia
• Jeff Faw named president at mfr. Sumter Cabinet
• Flexsteel promotes two
• Knight returns to Westgate
• Leon's 'Mr. Tom' stepping down as chairman
• Bankrupt Eddie Bauer will close 34 home stores
• Correction
• Carolinas Expo panel urges focus on servicing customers
• Obituaries
• C. Leonard Erickson, retired Fancher owner

• Opinion Today
• When it comes to fabrics, most roads lead to China
• Letters to the Editor
• China conducting 'no-holds-barred assault' on U.S. textile industry

• People Today
• Stanley's Prillaman to retire in April
• People on the Move
• People on the Move

• Special Report
• New sizes, shapes take casual dining to greater heights
• Guadalajara goes contemporary
• Youth producers devise new ways to save space
• Mexican manufacturers investigate China sources
• Smaller U.S., Canadian contingent does business
• Market Report
• Tupelo uph. buyers replenish inventories
• Better price points spotlighted in wood
• Haskey given buyer award
• Bedding business looks bouncy in Tupelo
• Ashley dedicates expansion
• Rep Kirksey saluted

• Store Openings
• N.J. retailer installs BenchCraft
• Freed's launches Genesis gallery
• Rowe adds gallery in Puerto Rico
• Colorado La-Z-Boy store gets new look