News archive for April, 2006

Results 111 - 118 of about 118 news for the month of April, 2006.

Hooker Furniture Corporation

April 3rd, 2006

Hooker Furniture Corporation, incorporated in 1924, is an importer and manufacturer of residential wood, metal and upholstered leather furniture. Major furniture categories include wall and entertainment units, and office, dining, bedroom, accent, occasional and upholstered leather furniture for the home. The Company’s principal customers are retailers of residential home furnishings who are dispersed throughout North [...]

YWCA opens furniture store

April 3rd, 2006

The YWCA of Pueblo will host the grand opening of its new furniture store, Repeat Home Furnishings at 115 Broadway Ave., at 10 a.m. Wednesday.
The store will offer “gently used” furniture and accessories at affordable prices, both consignments and donations, for the benefit of the YWCA.
The Greater Pueblo and Latino chambers of commerce will participate [...]

New Additions To Glen Town Center: Cookies & Furniture

April 3rd, 2006

Whether they are reasons to celebrate is up to the shopper, but Glenview certainly has two new ways to celebrate.
Cookies By Design and Bellini Baby & Teen Furniture both announced that they will be moving to The Glen Town Center. Bellini offers high-end furniture to outfit the new rooms of a family’s greatest celebration, the [...]

Spruce up patio furniture

April 3rd, 2006

Soon it will be time to haul the patio furniture out of storage and back out into the sunshine.
If yours is looking less than its best, try these spruce-up ideas from Jennifer Litwin, author of Furniture Hot Spots and Best Furniture Buying Tips Ever!:
Wood furniture: Clean with a little dishwashing soap mixed with warm water. [...]

Hotels feeding furniture market

April 3rd, 2006

Used hotel furniture is flooding the market, proving a boon for liquidators and homeowners looking to decorate on the cheap.
U.S. hotels, emboldened by one of the hottest travel markets in years, are spending record sums to renovate and upgrade amenities.
In catering to a hip new generation of travelers, they are aggressively replacing old furnishings with [...]

Taiwanese firm mulls furniture factory in Oro

April 3rd, 2006

A GROUP of foreign investors from Taiwan engaged in the furniture business arrived recently to explore the possibility of establishing a furniture factory in the city.
Mayor Vicente Emano discussed with the Taiwanese investors their initial investment proposals during their courtesy call.
Emano said that one of the businessmen’s reasons for visiting the city was to [...]

Dangers Found With Furniture

April 3rd, 2006

Thousands of people, many of them children, are injured every year when a piece of furniture falls on them. Falling furniture killed at least nine people last year alone. In this Consumer Watch Report, our partners at Consumer Reports tested furniture to see how stable it is, especially with little ones around.
Bob and Judy Lambert [...]

Hitchcock is history

April 3rd, 2006

A Hitchcock chair can best be described as spare, yet ornate; functional, yet decorative. These characteristics have made the company’s furniture a hallmark of traditional New England décor for generations.
This distinctive style of furniture has been so popular that founder John Tarrant Kenney, the man who renewed the Hitchcock Chair Company after Cheshire native Lambert [...]