Furniture Today - January 7, 2013

ORLAND PARK, Ill. - Home furnishings retailer, Darvin Furniture has installed a new HGTV Home Furniture Collection Gallery. The 1,100-square-foot gallery is housed within Darvin's 130,000-square-foot store located on La Grange Road.

• Bedding
• Therapedic back in China in partnership with Airland
• Selling Sleep
• Hickory Springs to distribute U.K.'s Spinks line

• Bedding Today
• Pent-up demand coming? Insiders are not so sure

• News
• Austin Brothers adds Flexsteel gallery
• Create-A-Room installs Klaussner Studio
• Functional buffets top chinas in sales
• November mattress sales up in double digits
• Ashley opens three U.S. stores
• Plywood case results delayed
• Easyhome, RAC swap 30 stores
• George Edward Koehler, Henredon exec
• Lea drops Nickelodeon line after poor sales
• Thomasville, Drexel returning to Las Vegas Market
• CSIL: World furniture sales to grow 3-4%
• Port labor contract extension averts strike
• October factory orders climb 6%
• Palliser names Benson president, promotes Kelley
• Pier 1 Imports posts 8.2% comp store gain in December
• HBC same-store sales climb 1.9%
• I.O. Metro names Spagna CEO as Howard leaves
• Hudson's Bay posts C$8.5M loss in 3rd quarter
• Welcome to 2013, everyone
• Ledoux joins Comfort Solutions
• Kingsdown merges sales divisions
• WithIt to honor Traub, five others in Las Vegas
• Port operators, unions delay ‘container cliff'
• Middle market poised for growth
• Underwood hearing delayed
• Comfort Solutions drops MAP
• Englander's Toman adds CEO title
• Retail groups eye merger
• Lexington doubles Vegas space
• Michigan approves incentives to keep La-Z-Boy headquarters
• AICO sets leather line