Furniture Today - March 18, 2013

CARTHAGE, Mo. - Leggett & Platt's board has approved a 3.6% increase in the quarterly dividend on the company's common stock, to 29 cents per share.

• Meeting, Greeting at Premarket
• Consumers Give Thumbs Up to Hybrids, Specialty Beds
• Bedding Plays Bigger Role for Nationwide's Members
• A Mexican Standoff for Online Retailing
• Selling Sleep
• Two East Coast Ports Developing Inland Facilities
• Dockworkers, Port Operators Edge Closer to Ratifying Contract
• Labor Unrest May Continue to Imperil Importers
• Jeannie Hodgson Peters, Standard Furniture
• Joe Tillman Jr., Sales Rep for Four Decades
• L&P promotes Walsh to VP
• Hickory Springs Realigns Duties of Top Execs
• Glick Joins Coast to Coast
• Ingram New President at Eagle Inds.
• Temptations to Hit Stage in HP
• Art Van Plans More Puresleeps
• Striking looks at Premarket
• Marge Carson Sales Reps Learn About Product, Plant
• Court Hears Trucking Lawsuit
• Canadian Superpower

• Bedding
• ISPA: Team Up on Recycling

• News
• Pier 1 sales jump 15.7% in quarter
• Sears Canada 4Q earnings flat as sales fall 5%
• Dorel's revenue rises but furnishings profit lags
• Borreggine hands off ISPA chair to Passaglia
• Furniture stores see growth in outdoor segment
• Outdoor sales heat up with spring fever
• Morris, Furniture Training team for online courses
• Hey, DUDE: Kingsdown offers high-tech training
• Nationwide draws 5,000 to Las Vegas
• Bright colors Jazz up upholstery
• Styles Pop at Premarket