Furniture Today - March 24, 2008

The International Sleep Products Assn. is considering a multimillion-dollar national marketing campaign designed to boost awareness of mattresses and increase mattress sales. Meeting at the ISPA Expo here, industry leaders unveiled an outline of the ambitious program, similar in concept to the highly visible "Got Milk" campaign launched by the dairy industry several years ago.

• Will Sealy look outside for new leader?

• Editor's Desk
• Moms share buying insights

• Industry Numbers
• Tempur-Pedic sales sagging this quarter
• Dorel furnishings sales sag but other segments better
• Bassett ups dividend 12.5%
• BMTC revenue grows 1.6% in 4Q

• News
• Norwalk renaming stores
• Fabric co. sets furniture line
• Industry remembers Leslie Fishbein
• Progressive moves into Sauder showroom
• Sun Delivery expands fleet
• Chinni to lead Fortunoff, under new owners
• Howard Miller launching line with TV's Pennington
• Sauder to trim RTA product line by over a third
• Colonial Mills hires Roy Evans
• Spryshak named VP sales at Ficks Reed
• Armen Art owner buys producer Italmond
• Furniture Classics hires rep group
• Canwood closing operations this summer
• Hafner shuts down plant
• Rowe to close N.C. Clayton Marcus plant
• FBI to separate Drexel, Henredon headquarters
• CPSC: Imported uph. would require FR test
• Vaughan to close last U.S. plant
• AHFA, NHFA support fire sprinklers in stores
• Correction
• Obituaries
• Obituaries

• Opinion Today
• Letters to the Editor
• Letter to the editor

• People Today
• Flexsteel honors gallery retailers
• Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers Inc. elects chairman, other officers
• People on the Move
• People on the Move

• Special Report
• Logistics
• Rising fuel prices mean container costs are sure to jump
• Warehouses: A key link in supply chain
• Home delivery services growing
• Q&A: What's your biggest logistical issue?
• Association Spotlight
• Market Events
• Where to find food, beverages, other services
• Elite Leather, Nathan Turner team up on uph. line
• New at Market
• Motion
• Home office
• Bedding/metal beds
• Rugs