Furniture Today - March 24, 2003

The World Market Center and its growing list of tenants have scheduled their first furniture market for January 2005 — a Tuesday-through-Friday run that will overlap the San Francisco market by one day. The developers of the planned $1 billion, 7.5 million-square-foot market complex here announced the dates during an event tied to its groundbreaking last Friday, which dre...

• News
• Simmons team hears first Bush
• Levitz names retail vet to operations post
• Repair firm in Fla. sues competitor
• Sphinx taps Robetor
• Dash to run WMC's international operations
• Ikea plans Twin Cities unit for summer '04
• Studio RTA promotes Harris to VP
• Sheaffer resigns AFMA post
• CPSC sees support for uph. flame rule
• Rentway agrees to settle lawsuit
• Sinclair gets Leda marketing post
• FMCA to induct Short, Moyer into Hall of Fame
• Survey again will assess retailer mood
• Thomasville's Bogart hobnobs with stars
• Presenters get Select Comfort beds
• Sears Canada pulling furniture from 26 mall stores
• BASF hiking acrylic polymer prices
• Obituaries
• Thomas Henry Wilson Jr., industry veteran

• Store Openings
• Jones Furniture unveils Broyhill gallery
• Thornton's installs Berkline gallery
• La-Z-Boy launches stores in Texas, Mo.
• Galvins opens home office design studio

• Insider's View
• How to stick together and weather this crisis

• Opinion Today
• When furniture bug bites, there's no escape
• Letters to the Editor
• Mattress industry needs to update its sales pitch

• Business Today
• Restoration records profit; furniture's share of mix dips
• Cost Plus 4Q earnings up 27.7%
• Flexsteel, Leggett & Platt lower earnings projections

• People Today
• Mulvaney is NE regional sales mgr. at FurnishNet
• People on the Move
• People on the Move

• Supplement
• Global Textiles Today
• Want color? You're covered!
• Novel touches
• Geometric zest
• Contemporary currents
• Contemporary currents
• Traditional statements
• Traditional statements
• Tropical breezes
• Duct tape be damned! Let's look for the grabber

• Bedding Today
• Cheeky British ad takes fantasies to new level

• Special Report
• Market Events
• Array of seminars on tap at market
• WithIt to party on Friday
• Pagers available from IHFRA
• Dining choices abound at MMPI
• Four Hands sets Thai party
• MMPI social events on tap
• IHFC plans parties, music events
• 220 Elm to exhibit student designs
• 200 Steele tenants offer refreshments
• 200 North Hamilton St. events on tap
• Hamilton Sq. activities set
• Showplace plans socials, food services
• C&D offers tasty treats
• Youth Report
• Classic feminine looks sweeten youth offerings
• Retailer Profile
• From riches to rags to riches again
• Product Trends
• New at market: Case goods
• New at market: Occasional
• New at market: Casual dining
• New at market: Home entertainment
• New at market: Stationary upholstery
• New at market: Leather
• New at market: Youth

• Up Front
• Plenty of FR bedding material said available
• Group to acquire Vermont Tubbs
• One-sided Posturepedic to offer unibody construction
• Benton named Powell president