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By Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, June 4, 2008
Furniture|Today's online Research Store features reports, surveys and whitepapers compiled exclusively for the furniture and home furnishings industries. We have recently added four new reports that you might be interested in--Top 100 Furniture Stores, Top 25 Furniture Sources for U.S. Market, Retail Bedding Spotlight and Retail Giants of Bedding. See below for more details and to order.
1. Top 100 Furniture Stores-- Furniture/Today’s exclusive Top 100 listing ranks furniture stores by sales of furniture, bedding and decorative accessories, including fabric and furniture protection and warranties.
The detailed analysis includes: 1. Ashley still No. 1 store 2. Specialists beat conventionals in sales growth 3. Top 10 conventional furniture stores 4. Top 10 specialty stores 5. Bedding specialty stores finally take a rest 6. Top bedding specialists 7. Nine out of 10 single-source chains post declines 8. Top single-source store networks 9. 2007 was a record year for bankruptcies 10. Who’s who among the leading stores 11. Top 100 ranking 12. Furniture stores to watch.
For more details, go to: http://furnituretodaystore.stores.yahoo.net/top100.html
2. Top 25 Furniture Sources for U.S. Market - 2008 -- Sales for the 25 largest furniture sources to the U.S. market declined 6.5% last year as only four of the companies posted gains, according to Furniture/Today’s annual ranking of the Top 25 Furniture sources for the U.S. Market.
In a year with more downsizing than acquisitions, the big manufacturers and importers tracked what most believe was a weakening retail market for home products amid a housing decline and economic malaise.
This exclusive report ranks companies according to 2007 furniture shipments to the U.S. Sources on the list sell into the U.S. market, regardless of whether they have manufacturing, assembling operations or corporate offices in the U.S.
For more details, go to: http://furnituretodaystore.stores.yahoo.net/furtop25usfu.html
3. Retail Bedding Spotlight -- During March and April, Furniture|Today surveyed bedding retailers about their operations, including bedding merchandise mix by type of bed. This report provides retailers with benchmarks to measure bedding merchandise performance.
Included in the mix of retailers answering the survey are bedding specialists, furniture stores and manufacturer-branded stores. For reporting purposes, bedding specialist results are reported separately and results for furniture stores and manufacturer-branded stores are grouped together.
For more details, go to: http://furnituretodaystore.stores.yahoo.net/ftretbedspot.html
4. Retail Giants of Bedding 2008 -- Special issue explores people, places that make bedding industry unique.
Aside from our awards for the Retail Giants of Bedding (Verlo Mattress Factory, Sleep America, Ashley Furniture and R.C. Willey), this bedding supplement features an eclectic mix of topics.
Here are some of the features: Selling better sleep instead of mattresses, Bedding leaders discuss leadership, Remembering Ernie Wuliger, Bed bugs are back, Ling notes ‘Tempur-Pedic effect’, Hickory Springs: Innovation is key and Lilly shares insights on industry.
For more details, go to: http://furnituretodaystore.stores.yahoo.net/retgiabed08.html
Rankings: Top 100 U.S. furniture stores
12/29/2001
