Larry Thomas
I'm Larry Thomas, business editor of Furniture/Today. In my 17 years here, I've written stories about everything from box springs to wicker chairs. For 12 years, I wrote the weekly "Bedding Today" column, which is now in the capable hands of executive editor David Perry. Since being named business editor in 2001, most of my stories have dealt with home entertainment furniture, recliners, financial news and furniture markets. I look forward to discussing key industry issues in this forum, and I welcome your thoughts and opinions.
Title: Bedding Editor
Email: l.thomas@furnituretoday.com
Special OrderLink This | Email This | Comments (0) Mini massage chair gets maximum exposureAlthough 2010 is less than three months old, it already has been a good year for Cliff Levin and the folks at Inada USA, a distributor of massage chairs. Orders in January and February tripled the orders received in the same two months of 2009, and that was before two major publicity “hits” that are sure to boost spring orders. “We are having trouble catching up with demand,” Levin told me enthus... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (3) La-Z-Boy stores need more sales, not more snowLa-Z-Boy’s company-owned stores are starting to show signs of life after more than a year’s worth of operational changes and cost-cutting initiatives, but La-Z-Boy CEO Kurt Darrow acknowledged this week that the cost-cutting has gone about as far as it can go. It’s going to take a bump on the top line to completely reverse the retail group’s operating losses, he told securities analysts on a recen... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (0) McIngvale's dream race won't be in HoustonThe dream horse race that Gallery Furniture owner Jim McIngvale has sought for months looks like it will take place – but it won’t be in Gallery Furniture’s hometown of Houston. Unfortunately for McIngvale, Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark., offered a $5 million purse for a race involving superfillys Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta on April 9. That’s $3 million more than McIngvale and Sam Houston Ra... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (7) Culp has guns blazing in copyright fightWhen Culp Inc. was granted copyrights on three microfiber patterns last May, design director Liam Waters told my colleague Gary Evans that it was “the greatest news to hit the streets in years.” He said Culp officials were tired of seeing the three patterns — Palomino, Stampede and Wrangler — knocked off by a horde of imitators, and they were elated that the U.S. Copyright office finally agreed wi... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (1) Lots of choices for leather upholstery buyersIf you’re a buyer of leather upholstery, I suspect you are one of the most popular people in the furniture retailing world. Leather upholstery resources, in case you hadn’t noticed, are multiplying like the hamsters my children owned when they were in elementary school. And each of those new resources is searching far and wide for customers — retailers who are willing to floor their product. At ne... More |
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