Office furniture manufacturer HNI Corp. of Muscatine has been named one of the 50 best U.S. manufacturers by IndustryWeek magazine.
The company, whose brands include Allsteel, was top-ranked in the magazine’s furniture and fixtures category. Rankings are based on financial performance and inventory turnover.
HNI Chief Executive Stan Askren, shown in Allsteel’s No. 19 executive chair, noted [...]

What you need — Red, white and blue pony beads and star-shaped beads, scissors, heavy beading cord and key ring
How to make — Cut three 18-inch lengths of cord and fold in half. Attach to key ring using a slip knot. Thread 18 pony beads onto each length of cording. Thread a star-shaped bead [...]

St. Andrew’s-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church is holding a craft fair and flea market on Saturday, June 17 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The church is looking for people, interested in participating, to sign up to rent a 12-by-12 space to merchandise handcrafted items of all types or to sell garage sale/flea market items; the fee [...]

The organizers of ABIMAD 2007 - Braziian Contemporary Furniture & Home Décor Exhibition announced that they will select furniture retailers to be granted with a free trip to Brazil during 2007 show dates (February 8-12, 2007).
ABIMAD 2007 – Brazilian Contemporary Furniture & Home Décor Exhibition will transform Sao Paulo City’s Imigrantes Exhibition Center into the [...]

Furniture Brands International Inc. saw its shares jump in afternoon trading Thursday after a Credit Suisse analyst upgraded the stock on valuation.
The furniture maker’s shares advanced $1.22, or 5.7 percent, to $22.57 on the New York Stock Exchange, as trading volume more than doubled the stock’s daily average. The stock has traded in a 52-week [...]

The Stanley Furniture Company, Inc. (NASDAQ: STLY, www.stanleyfurniture.com ), has chosen the progeCAD DWG Viewer to supply AutoCAD® compatible DWG viewing and plotting to all of their facilities within the United States.
Established in 1924, Stanley Furniture Company, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of wood furniture targeted at the upper-medium price range of the residential [...]

Fire crews acted quickly to knock down a potentially large fire at a Cincinnati business on Thursday.
The fire broke out at Yesteryear’s in the 4000 block of Glenway Avenue shortly before 11 a.m. The fire started in the front of the store, and soon engulfed most of the front area.
Firefighters were able to bring it [...]

A number of Vietnamese cultural objects, handicraft items and products representing the country’s socio-economic achievements and its international integration were displayed at the on-going international cultural festival in the central Mexican City of San Miguel.
Vietnamese Ambassador Le Van Thinh told the local press that Vietnam has worked to preserve and extend its traditional cultural treasures [...]

Godrej and Boyce manufacturing company Ltd in association with Mahaveer group has opened an exclusive Godrej showroom in NSC Bose Road.
The new showroom would house the complete range of Godrej furniture and security equipment. The product portfolio includes open plan office systems, desking, storages, home furniture, seating [...]

Claude Gable Co. Inc. said yesterday that it is ending furniture-manufacturing production in High Point after 34 years and cutting nearly 200 jobs.
It is the largest single-company layoff in High Point in three years, according to the High Point Economic Development Corp.
The company said it has begun “an orderly liquidation of its assets” because of [...]