Furniture Today - February 10, 2003

Bedding suppliers plan to help create excitement High Point — As the bedding industry attempts to shake off the doldrums, suppliers are doing their part to add excitement to bedding lines. Most of their products are invisible to retailers and consumers, but the blending of various bedding components to make mattresses with different feels and features is the art practiced by bedding produ...

• News
• Casey, Easterly promoted to VPs at Henredon
• Harden moving toward 100% forest certification
• No Sunday at upcoming casual market
• 'Sound-infused furniture' is here
• Spring squeeze is on for factories
• Early High Point market could be boon for Milan
• Aaron struggles with retail
• One-sided: The new standard?
• El Dorado: Out with the first, in with the new
• Cushman expands services
• El Dorado opening draws crowd
• RAC also tries conventional retailing
• Corrections & Amplifications
• Obituaries
• Obituaries

• Up Front
• Research: Gen-X needs more attention
• Storehouse wakes up to Gen-X employees
• Accent wins $3M settlement in suit over Lilly wood finish
• Consumer spending climbs 4.3%
• La-Z-Boy Europe gears up with filled out product line
• HPU links courses to La-Z-Boy duo
• Bassett will close Georgia BR plant
• Adams is Sherrill wood CEO
• Aminy Audi gets retail post
• Wickes names Slavin CEO
• Current now Loomcraft EVP
• Ital Art Design buys Classic Gallery showroom building

• People Today
• Brogan promoted at Stickley
• Craig gets sales post at transporter Purnell
• People on the Move
• People on the Move

• Bedding Today
• Arrogance hurt Sealy on single-sided beds

• Opinion Today
• Letters to the Editor
• Letters to the editor
• What really separates winners from also-rans
• Anybody wanna sell a leather recliner for $199?
• Off sea changes, ostriches and dodos

• Business Today
• Select Comfort's sales shoot up 33% in 4th qtr.
• Chromcraft 4Q earnings up 35%
• Bombay same-store sales jump 27%
• Sales gains drive tripling of net income in Flexsteel