Furniture Today - September 17, 2001

When is a leather sofa a pricey $2,599 or a more modest $799? When the leather that covers it makes the grade. The leather grading system employed by leather upholstery manufacturers and suppliers is used as a means of differentiating and marketing individual types of leather by price, based on quality or style.

• News
• APRO honors top dealers
• British company hopes ads turn consumers on
• Leggett division acquires latex manufacturing facility
• Delgaudio, Greenbaum join Boyles; Grant promoted
• Cohen's signs with Storis
• Dinec contest marks 10 years
• FurnitureFan to develop Web sites for Best Brands dealers
• Berkshire Hathaway now 2% stakeholder in Office Depot
• Epperson to speak at Ohio NHFA meeting
• Premarket pre-empted
• Playing it safe in wood
• Tragedy touches N.Y., Va. stores
• Occasional increasingly tied to case goods, upholstery
• Hooker links with PGA Home, designer McMillan
• FurnishNet sets B2B links for Calif. retailer
• Excelsior doubling High Point showroom
• Sheppard replaces Liddy at Valspar
• RightLinx taps Risen, King, Lowenthal
• Katz gets Broyhill post
• Marketgoers scramble for alternate ways home
• Rooms To Go helps nab suspect
• Several industry events canceled
• New York retailer looks to relief efforts
• Shaw Rugs sets push into big-box channel
• Couristan celebrating 75th
• Nourison will unveil Klein rugs
• Obituaries
• Dennis Lombard, retired retailer

• Supplement
• 2001 Furniture Store Performance Report
• Large Stores
• Western Stores
• Midwestern Stores
• Southern Stores
• Northeastern Stores
• Furniture sales near $50 billion
• All Stores
• Small Stores
• Medium Stores

• People Today
• Chorman named to top financial post at Foamex
• People on the Move
• People on the Move

• Up Front
• Premarket signals big bargains
• Leather exhibits global muscle
• Passaglia steps down as Verlo president
• Market Authority names advisory board
• Post-terror Decosit: A weird, slow-motion dream
• HP to review security
• Vegas rebate vote delayed

• Opinion Today
• A time to keep on, and count our blessings
• We will see this through ... again
• Tragedy illuminates precious gift of life
• We must continue to stand for freedom
• Sympathy overwelming in Brussels

• Store Openings
• La-Z-Boy opens in Middletown
• Thomasville debuts in Albany

• Bedding Today
• Baby boomers face their Pearl Harbor

• Business Today
• Market closing could presage fall, then rise
• Furniture Brands sees 9% to 10% drop in 3Q sales
• Valspar to take 4Q restructuring charge
• Sears Canada Aug. sales up 8.6%
• Amisco to buy back more stock
• Financial results