Furniture Today - July 05, 2004

Aiming to improve on the typical retail furniture gallery, high-end manufacturer Century has designed a lifestyle retail display that taps into aspirational feelings and addresses how women shop for furniture and want to see it presented. Working with Callison of Seattle, the producer has developed a program that embraces merchandise, presentation, signage and point-of-sale...

• News
• Obituaries
• Jac denBoer, retired Weiman executive
• Fishman new Rhodes CEO
• Robb & Stucky tries new mix
• Hammary (re)makes history
• Shuttle system expands
• Summer Showtime 2004
• A summer fashion tradition
• IHFC fabric exhibitors relocate
• Corrections & Amplifications
• Robb & Stucky heads to Tampa
• Stein World merges with lighting co. Emess Design
• Sears Appliances & Mattresses opening 4 stores in greater Toronto
• AFMA offers joint summer conferences
• Thomasville closing N.C. uph. plant

• Up Front
• From City to City: Auction brings in big bucks
• Flack Interiors of Texas files for Chapter 11
• Vaughan-Bassett to close S.C. plant
• Section A denied for 36 companies
• Culp creating three-tier fabric marketing strategy
• ITMA adds 11 companies
• Sears to buy Kmart, Wal-Mart units
• FBI's Pearson to report through Henredon
• Universal taps Maddrey
• La-Z-Boy promotes two
• Bjerregaard joins Ekornes

• Special Report
• Sofa vendors partner with stores to improve consumer education
• Buying a sofa can be a tension-filled task
• Rug Report
• Rug traditions take back seat to new freedoms
• Atlanta rug introductions

• People Today
• Devany to lead bedding division for ATC
• People on the Move
• People on the Move

• Bedding Today
• Thomasville bed lets me sleep like Hemingway

• Opinion Today
• Why this recovery won't be like those of the past
• Consumers won't see real face of our industry
• Finally, they're actually giving it away

• Business Today
• Hooker 2Q sales up 14.2%; profits more than double
• April factory orders inch up 2%
• Shermag's Bedard plant back at work
• Consumer confidence takes big June jump