Furniture Today - March 18, 2002

Bedding suppliers were buoyed by good responses to their introductions at Expo 2002 here. The biennial show, sponsored by the International Sleep Products Assn., gives suppliers of everything from quilting machines to ticking, and from foam to innerspring units, to showcase their latest wares.

• News
• Rent-A-Center settles discrimination suits
• Oscar presenters will sit pretty
• Z-Tex parent acquires King Finishing
• NHFA poised for growth
• Bedding bouncing back
• Don't expect much from Congress, NHFA told
• Suspect still sought in Singapore market death

• Up Front
• Art Van: On toward $1 billion
• Asian shows ponder the China question
• Consumer furniture spending flat in 2001
• Shermag sets three-way growth plan
• Home Co. gets $10M credit line
• Lexington buyers find equity partner
• Vegas developers list 10 more tenants
• Tourney, Oct. markets to conflict
• Paul Maitland-Smith stepping down
• Mitchell leaving La-Z-Boy
• Wagner gets La-Z-Boy post
• Staack named CEO at AMC
• Stanley promotes Prillaman
• Bradington-Young acquires 2nd High Point showroom
• Boyd Furniture signs up for space in Las Vegas
• P/Kaufmann to purchase Clarence House

• Bedding Today
• Some bright spots in retail bedding ads

• Opinion Today
• How to lead little-people oriented industry astray
• Let's hope market shuttles run on time
• Where the flammability players were

• Insider's View
• A quick look at 30 years of change in our industry

• Special Report
• Show Report
• Abolt and Borreggine honored with ISPA awards
• Socials connect industry
• Leggett & Platt hosts big bash at ISPA venue
• Conference Report
• NHFA panel shares retail success secrets
• Great leaders don't demand, they persuade
• Four takes on the industry's future
• NHFA social scene
• Post: Stores must stay fresh to be competitive
• Market Authority
• Market Authority brings order to H.P. trade event
• Hotels eager to cooperate with Market Authority
• Transportation system first to be overhauled by Market Authority
• A brief history of the Market Authority

• People Today
• Zollar directs La-Z-Boy's Europe arm
• England appoints three regional sales managers
• Jelfo is uph. merchandising VP at Fairmont
• Corrections & amplifications
• People on the Move
• People on the Move

• Business Today
• Simmons slashes net losses despite 5.7% sales slip in 2001
• Bombay's year a 'disappointment'
• Bassett sees 2% 1Q sales rise