Furniture Today - June 09, 2003

Ashley Home Stores, the retail network of the Arcadia, Wis.-based manufacturer, claimed the title of fastest-growing furniture chain on Furniture/ Today's Top 100 this year with sales and store count growth unmatched by its competitors. The fairly new network of 102 U.S. stores at year-end — No.

• News
• FBI to close more plants
• La-Z-Boy reorganizes its sourcing
• Rose Hill room packages include folding wall units
• Corrections & Amplifications
• La-Z-Boy's aim: Maximize plants
• Select Comfort creates airbed display in airport
• Serta Sheep rank with Pepsi, Nike, says Ad Age
• Hooker giveaway promotes home entertainment product
• Expanded Becker entertains shoppers
• Hooker finalist for Ernst & Young award
• La-Z-Boy to coordinate sourcing
• Henredon: A little less formal
• N.C. export official tastes life in Japan
• Colony House store targets younger set
• Showtime schedule
• Roundtable will examine quotas, tariffs
• Free shuttle service on tap
• Piracy advice available for Showtime exhibitors
• ITMA urging members to help design schools
• ITMA honors outstanding students
• ITMA backs internship program
• Showtime expectations high
• Obituaries
• Obituaries
• Our Community
• Sealy supplies beds to N.Y. firestation
• Bernie & Phyl's donates furniture to Goodwill
• RAC contributes to Big Brothers/Sisters program
• La-Z-Boy auction raises $125,000

• People Today
• Robb & Stucky names Pipes GM in Boca Raton
• People on the Move
• People on the Move

• Up Front
• Stewart furniture sales not expected to stall
• Regs shackle domestic industry, House panel told
• Bombay's Carreker also CEO
• Bassett's Weiman acquires Preview
• Mastercraft of Omaha reborn
• Schnadig closing Simplicity div.
• Danish mfrs. eye theft-proofing options
• Crypton, Quaker team up
• Thomasville taps Miller
• Emerson et Cie names Mark Smith to new VP post
• Wood set to retire as FMCA's EVP

• Supplement
• SoHo Today
• Scandinavia Fair

• Bedding Today
• Accuracy of ISPA's 2002 numbers still questioned

• Insider's View
• Do-gooders can make it hard to get the wood out

• Opinion Today
• Another 'friendly' cue we could take from Wal-Mart
• The changing face of lowball pricing

• Business Today
• Bombay racks up May gains
• Cost Plus earnings jump 52.8% in 1st qtr.
• Rent-Way boosts finances
• Mortgage rates dip to record lows as wave of refinancings rolls on