Furniture Today - November 10, 2003

Conlin's Furniture is becoming a professionally managed retailer while at the same time holding onto many hallmarks of a family-owned and run enterprise. President Joe Conlin, son of one of the 17-store chain's four founders, said the transition comes after a long entrepreneurial stage that stretches back to 1965, when Ed, John, Clem and Frank Conlin opened a furniture st...

• News
• Academics: No plant reopenings
• Home Styles sets Betty Crocker RTA kitchen line
• Furniture factories post third straight monthly gain
• Logistics firm expanding, adding reps
• Antidumping face-off
• Some view effort as war against retailers
• Designers get inspiration from traveling the globe
• Rose Hill to boost RTA uph. output
• Havertys sets $58M in capital spending for '04
• R. Haverty Sr. leaves board after 56 years
• CFMA tourney honors Parnell
• Some importers make contingency plans
• Furniture Brands opposes petition, doubts it will work
• Ves-Levi to import rugs
• Spring Air debuts visco-elastic foam line
• Via, Jesper join for SOHO push
• Guardsman, Fenice team up on leather care line
• Our Community
• Canadel donates building to town
• Custom Shoppe walks in anticancer Relay
• Bob's helps fight hunger in Conn.
• LHB recognized for environmental efforts
• Unifi receives N.C. business 'green' award

• Business Today
• Oct. sales up for Pier 1, Havertys, Bombay
• 3Q sales rise 16.5% at Dorel
• Quaker's 3Q earnings jump 46%
• Chromcraft Revington 3Q sales decline 9.5%

• Special Report
• Retail Profile
• Serving three unique markets
• Special Report
• Branded stores picking up steam

• Store Openings
• Dealers install Lane galleries in stores across the country

• Up Front
• Furnitureland South takes space past 1 million sq. ft.
• Some Highland House items to survive
• Capel acquires Mastercraft inventory, names Sweeters
• Spring Air adds bounce to two key product lines
• Land and Sky files for Chapter 11
• AFMA, ISPA: Hollings bill not needed
• Nicholson joins Magnussen
• Sleep group going to Vegas
• Aaron gains franchise stores

• Opinion Today
• Embattled RTA makers thinking outside big box

• Bedding Today
• Wild waterbed ride headed for big screen