Furniture Today - September 10, 2007

While the sleep products industry struggled last year, the sleeping pill industry had a boom year. Sadly, those two trends are related, I think. Our industry saw its unit volume decline by 1.4% in 2006, according to the annual report recently issued by the International Sleep Products Assn. Price increases and a push to sell better bedding helped us boost the dollar value of bedding shipments b...

• News
• Lane seeks duty-free status on fabrics for Miss. plants
• Global speeds shipping with Houston facility
• You could see the love at ABC celebrates number 40
• Labor Day promising
• Investors buy American
• Universal to buy Pa. House
• Red carpet for Royal Manner
• Rebuilt Rowe on road to recovery
• A.R.T. Furniture appoints Sibbick to new sales post
• Polding is Distinctive sales VP
• Pulaski promotes Wilson, McPeake
• Event for exhibitors, reps on tap Sept. 29
• Radio-frequency ID workshop set Sept. 14
• Johnson is Trade Masters sourcing, product director
• Shenzhen aims to broaden exhibitor base
• Johnston is HBC president
• Smith, others let go as Berkline/BenchCraft realigns
• New Shanghai show looks to draw 50,000 visitors
• Shanghai expo fully booked
• Nguyen to direct A-America product design
• Scalamandré Silks taps Iommazzo for president
• Robb & Stucky eyes foreign stores
• Martin consolidates Mexican production
• Obituaries
• Obituaries

• Industry Numbers
• Hooker profits up sharply
• Shermag 1Q revenues drop 31%; loss cut
• Havertys sales down 8.3% in August

• Opinion Today
• You gotta be there, but real challenge is marketing
• Weaving wonderful lifestyle Webs
• Letters to the Editor
• Drake: Don't overlook industry's American manufacturing success stories

• Insider's View
• Disconnect: Our reality, government's sales data

• Editor's Desk
• Good managers or great leaders?

• People Today
• Seibel joins WMC
• People on the Move
• People on the Move

• Spring Air taps 3 to head new sales divisions