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By Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, August 22, 2004

High Point — Furniture/Today's exclusive survey of the Top Retail Giants ranks the Top 25 U.S. furniture and bedding retailers, the Top 15 U.S. department stores and the Top 5 discount department stores according to their furniture and bedding sales.

Data is based on the year ended Dec. 30, 2003, unless otherwise noted.

Companies on all three lists are ranked according to estimated 2003 sales of furniture and bedding. Decorative accessory sales, including lamps, area rugs, wall décor and mirrors, are excluded. Decorative accessory sales were included in the Top 100 U.S. Furniture Stores Survey, published in this year's May 24 issue.

All sales figures, except those of publicly held companies that break out furniture and bedding sales as a separate line of business, are Furniture/Today market research estimates.

Sales estimates were derived from a variety of sources, including the companies themselves, public company filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, discussions with industry analysts and suppliers, and published and unpublished reports, including newspaper articles in various retailing areas.

Senior Editor Carole Sloan, Director of Market Research Kay Anderson, Senior Research Specialist Dana French and Database Coordinator Cynthia Myers compiled the data for this report.

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