Furniture Today - October 13, 2008

BRATT DCOR IHFC M-811 Blu, a new collection of children's furniture in mod styling, is being promoted with a show special of a 10% discount on orders of $10,000 or more. BROYHILL IHFC C-600 HICKORY AT HOME IHFC H-1006 A solid-wood bunk bed at $399 features Mission styling and is available in three finishes.

• Editor's Desk
• Getting customers through the door

• Special Report
• Case Goods
• Leather Upholstery
• Stationary Upholstery
• Home Entertainment
• Occasional

• Industry Numbers
• Sleep Country taken private
• Pier 1 September same-store sales fall 11.7%
• Sealy sales fall 9.3%
• Havertys sales tumble 12.5% in quarter

• Bedding Today
• Bedding's star still shines bright in furniture stores

• Store Openings
• Broyhill opens one gallery in Alabama, two in Illinois

• Insider's View
• Remember to focus on things you can control

• News
• Olson signs rug deal with Surya
• Sealy shifting to 2 regions
• Hendricks Group makes leadership changes
• Kabat retires at P/Kaufmann
• Vegas changes dates
• Lane takes showroom on the road
• Lane closing Philly stores
• Ashley lays off 200
• F/T Web exclusives
• Correction
• La-Z-Boy hires retailer
• AHFA holding formaldehyde educational program
• Reilly takes new VP post at La-Z-Boy
• IFDA creating Waites design scholarship
• Vaughan looking young at 85
• Thomasville acquires stores
• Thomasville adds galleries in Colorado, Arkansas, Iowa
• Ross Furniture transforms bowling alley into showroom
• Obituaries
• Richard Charles Koerner, retired Idaho retailer

• Opinion Today
• We'll enter uncharted waters at market