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The stock price stability and financial performance of various furniture and home furnishings companies in the United States are analyzed.

The securities of various furniture and home furnishings companies in the United States are analyzed. The stock performance of the industry has been hurt by cooling housing market and rising costs.

SUPPLIER GIANTS Bath Accessories Wrap-Up To spur sales, the suppliers branched out this year from the fully-coordinated effort in bath to more free-standing accessory products. Increases in raw material prices [...]

Unity Marketing's Home Report 2003: The Market, The Competitors, The Future Trends reports an increase in consumer purchases of home furnishings and home decor items by 4.1% in 2002 with home electronic segment as a major factor in growth. Various home decor products of elegance and appeal like decorative multi-purpose boxes and new furnishings with French and Italian looks are reviewed.

In the manufacturing sector, massive initiatives have overtaken virtually every company throughout the world. Phrases such as 'process improvement,' 'continuous improvement,' 'kaizon' and 'quality over quantity' are used extensively as [...]

HOME ACCENT TODAY's exclusive 2004 Universe Study (published December 2004) reported the wall decor category accounted for 9% of the 2004 home accent universe and garnered $5.75 billion in retail [...]

When mother and daughter Sherry and Jenny Evans purchased Country Simple Pleasures in 2000 (the name was changed to Blair's Point in 2005 in honor of the store's fifth anniversary), [...]

As is true of just about every segment, the home accents slice of the U.S. economy is chugging along, growing slightly and projected to grow even more. At the same [...]

The top 20 kids home furnishings retailers experienced modest growth in 2003 with $9.83 billion in sales, a 4.9% increase over $9.37 billion in 2002. Kids products were sold through [...]

Staff BRIEFLY..... Grilling out continues to be a popular pastime for consumers in the United States. In fact, more than one-half of consumers use their grills year-round according to the [...]

By Daphne Garland-McLean Youth bedroom sales are all geared up for a significant increase over the next five years. According to the statisticians at New York-based Easy Analytic Software Inc. [...]

By Cecile B. Corral New York-- More than half of the key retailers reporting monthly sales in January completed the four-week period with positive comp store sales results, signaling there [...]

Jack Grum, vice president Snow is expected to be much more of a factor this month than last February, which brought the least amount of snowfall in seven years for [...]

by Dana French The nation's 20 largest kids home furnishings retailers recorded $10.51 billion in sales last year, a decrease of just 2.7% from $10.81 billion for the same group [...]

By Staff New York -- A reluctance by consumers to spend on non-essential goods kept same-store sales below targets for both discounters and department stores in the second week of [...]

By Staff New York - Retailer same-store sales for the third week of May rose 1.7%, keeping the month-to-date gain at 1.8%, the Johnson Redbook reported. Department store operators were [...]

Staff High Point- High-income households, those earning $75,000 or more, accounted for more than half of the $84.62 billion spent on furniture and bedding in 2006. Regardless of income, bedding [...]

By Staff Dallas - Tuesday Morning reported overall revenues up in the third quarter, but comp sales and profitability were down - and the home categories remain a key part [...]

By Don Hogsett Washington - The hot weather that cut across wide swaths of the nation during July jump-started consumers who flocked to air-conditioned malls and pushed retail sales up [...]

Byline: Michael Rudnick NEW YORK-Home furnishings retailer and vendor stocks slightly outpaced somewhat lackluster broader market gains for the first half of 2005. However, as the once hot housing market [...]

By Staff New York -Just how much retailers siphon out of their suppliers' pockets each year in the way of chargebacks and allowances - some authorized, some not - is [...]

Staff Rocklin, Calif.-- Furniture industry sales, liquidation and consulting company Deere Park Associates has formed a new venture here to serve Western home furnishing retailers. Deere Park Associates West's services [...]

NEW YORK-HFN's Top 50 vendors' sales tapered off somewhat last year on the heels of strong 2004 growth as this sector was forced to contend with the start of a [...]

Consumers in search of bedding still flock to furniture stores and department stores. But the crowds are starting to thin. These two channels accounted for almost half of all retail [...]

Mattress sales for 2005 enjoyed another respectable increase, with retail sales reaching $8 billion-up from $7.5 billion in 2004-a 7 percent spike, according to exclusive HFN research. More retailers are [...]

NEW YORK-Macy's has rolled out Dorm HQ, its first comprehensive back-to-school home program, complete with in-store merchandising displays and eight-page newspaper inserts. 'It's our attempt, from a national perspective, to [...]

By Carole Sloan Now that the numbers crunching for the latest installment of Home Textiles Today's Top 50 Retail Giants is done, the big news is that there was no [...]

Innovative manufacturer of panel and composite doors New World Developments, Ireland's biggest door manufacturer, is well placed to serve the UK mainland, writes Dominic Bentham A familiar name at trade [...]

After a year of robust growth, especially for barware tools such as corkscrews, the barware industry slowed in 2005, a victim of rising costs, retailer consolidation resulting in the loss [...]

STAMFORD, Conn.-Furniture and appliance retailers may be facing a slow second half of 2006 due to the triple threat of waning personal consumer savings, rising interest rates and a weakening [...]

By Janice Chamberlain On the surface, first quarter 2006 was a good time for juvenile home furnishings retailers. Overall sales for the 12 companies on this edition of the Kids [...]

Gerri Hunt Greensboro, Ga.-- The Georgia home Furnishings Assn. has named Ward Sweat of Bruns-wick, Ga.-based Sweat's Furniture as its 2006 Retailer of Merit. Sweat, who also is the GhFA's [...]

By Cinde W. Ingram When the sun shines, retailers in our industry can hardly contain their optimistic outlooks. Nearly two-thirds of retailers who responded to Casual Living 's exclusive Store [...]

By Kay Anderson Expect Accents Role to Grow Retailers selling home accents are looking forward to healthy sales in 2006. More than one-half project higher total store sales this year [...]

By Clint Engel Albuquerque, N.M.- American Home will expand its Arizona presence this year with its first Phoenix store and another unit south of Tucson in the Sahuarita/Green Valley area. [...]

NEW YORK-Go-private activity in the home retail arena has exploded as available private-equity funds and debt capital climb to astronomical levels. Home furnishings sales by privately held retailers have jumped [...]

NEW YORK-One of the more welcome sights for a retailer is a 'sold' sign on a front lawn. Over the past 10 years, home furnishings retail sales have gone hand [...]

NEW YORK-The Easter Bunny did not come in time this year to help somewhat-soft retail sales gains. While home furnishings retailers' same-store sales inched up slightly from the previous month, [...]

Byline: Rosamaria Mancini NEW YORK-It was a mixed bag for the textiles industry in 2005 as retail sales grew marginally to about $19.7 billion, a small increase from the $19.6 [...]

By Tracy Bulla Desire for uniqueness driving the market away from traditional prints Stepping out of Atlanta and Dallas, wall decor vendors were in a positive mood, reporting strong sales [...]

NEW YORK-Retailers of home furnishings revised upward their evaluation of the economy in the fourth quarter of 2005, ending a trend that began with the fourth quarter of the prior [...]

NEW YORK-Consumers have looked to the home for the holidays this year. According to some sales reports, home products have been strong drivers of holiday sales this season. SpendingPulse, an [...]

Byline: Michael Rudnick NEW YORK-Home furnishings retailers in November recorded the lowest total average same-store sales increase since July. These retailers logged a 1.4 percent total average same-store sales increase. [...]