Robb & Stucky eyes foreign stores
By Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, September 10, 2007
Fort Myers, Fla. — High-end retailer Robb & Stucky has plans to expand outside the United States for the first time, according to a news report.
A story last week in the Sarasota, Fla., Herald-Tribune about the struggles of the furniture industry in the Sarasota area said that even with a national slowdown in housing, the Top 100 company had been expanding and has plans to enter Nevada, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Contacted by Furniture/Today, Clive Lubner, CEO of the 27-store company, said through an associate that the retailer was not ready to comment. The upscale home furnishings chain, with estimated furniture, bedding and accessories sales of $300.8 million last year, had already noted plans to open a 100,000-square-foot store in Las Vegas this November.
