Beyond the Top 100

By Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, June 26, 2006

Abide Furniture
American Home Showplace
Aronson Rooms & More
Avery's Furniture
Bader Furniture Co.
Bartlett Home Furnishings
Bedrooms Today
Beiters Home Centers
Benjamin's Home Furnishings
Boston Interiors
Bradens Fine Furniture & Interiors
Breuners Arizona
Bridgman's Furniture
Brooks Furniture
Cantoni
Casa Furniture and Bedding
Charlotte's Fine Furnishings
Cherry House Furniture
Choice Leather Furniture
Ciao Interiors
Coconis Furniture
Colder's
Colfax Furniture
Colonial Heights Furniture
Compass Furniture
Continental Furniture
Cramer's Home Furniture
Creative Leather Furniture
D.T. McCall & Sons
Danker Furniture
Decorum of Virginia
Diamond Furniture & Mattress
Dinettes & Stools
Doneckers
Ennis Fine Furniture
Esprit Décor Home Furnishings
Express Furniture
Family Furniture Discount Centers
Fashion Furniture
Fish Furniture
Foremost Furniture
Fowlers Furniture/J.D. Kinders
Freed's Home Furnishings
Furniture Enterprises of Alaska
Furniture Factories Showrooms
Goins Statewide Furniture
Gormans Home Furnishings
Grand Discount Furniture
Greenbaum Interiors
Hennen Furniture
Holder's Furniture
House of Norway
Hurwitz-Mintz
Inter!iors
J&K Home Furnishings
J.F. Lynch
Kavanagh Furniture
Kay Furniture
Knoxville Wholesale Furniture
Kornmeyer Furniture Co.
Kroungold's Better Furniture
L. Fish Furniture
La Différence
Leader's Casual Furniture
McDaniel's
Mealey's Furniture
More Space Place
Morris Sokol Furniture
Mountain Comfort Furnishings & Design
N.B. Liebman Furniture
Naturwood Home Furnishings
New Ulm Furniture
Olum's
Pilgrim Furniture City
Raymond Rowe Furniture
Reed Furniture
Reeds Furniture
Resort Interiors
Rileys Furniture
Rosa's Home Stores
Rude's Home Furnishings
Samuel's Furniture
Samuels Furniture & Interiors
Scan International
Sedlak Interiors
Sheely's Furniture & Appliances
Smart Interiors
Sofas Plus
Spiller Associated Furniture Stores
Sprintz Furniture
Sussan Fine Furniture
Taft Furniture Warehouse and Showroom
The Chair King
The Furniture Look
The Old Cannery Furniture
The Shops at Carolina Furniture
Town & Country Furniture Co.
Turner Furniture Co.
Vail Furniture
Zimmermans Furniture

Abide Furniture

Home base: Bentonville, Ark.

President: Matt Abide

Total stores 2005: 3

Est. 2005 total sales: $5 million to $9.9 million

Family-owned retailer, founded in 1995. Operates one store each in Springdale and Bentonville, Ark., and Greenville, Miss. Plans to expand its Springdale store by 30,000 square feet this summer. Offers upper-middle to high-end price points in a combined 75,000 square feet. 20 employees, including 10 sales associates. In-store galleries: Bernhardt and Drexel Heritage. Furniture and bedding accounted for 55% of 2005 total sales; decorative accessories, 45%. 2005 total sales were 12% higher than in 2004.

American Home Showplace

Home base: Dalton, Ga.

President: Lamar Hennon

www.americanhomeshowplace.com

Total stores 2005: 3

Est. 2005 total sales: $30 million to $34.9 million

Family-owned retailer, founded in 1994. Operates an American Home Showplace store, a World of Outdoor Living patio store and a Buy The Room store on its 50-acre complex. Offers promotional to high-end lines through a combined 400,000 square feet of selling space. Opened a 155,000-square-foot American Home Showplace liquidators store in April. 125 employees, including 43 sales associates. In-store galleries: Henredon, 7,000 square feet; Lexington and Bernhardt, 5,000 square feet each; Stanley, 3,500 square feet. Other suppliers include Wesley Hall, Durham, Aspen, Broyhill, Kingsdown, Sealy, Century, E.J. Victor and Alan White. Furniture and bedding accounted for 88% of 2005 total sales; decorative accessories, 2%; other merchandise, including consumer electronics and major appliances, 10%.

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