Furniture Today - April 28, 2008

Home Meridian International has announced it will relocate some jobs from its Pulaski, Va., and Phoenix locations to its corporate headquarters here on Premiere Drive. In January, HMI opened the 20,000-square-foot office as the home base for all four of its divisions SLF, Pulaski, infant and juvenile furniture producer Creations, and contract division SLH (Samuel Lawre...

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