The emergence of new suppliers of furniture in the world threatens the market share of Filipino furniture exporters, an industry official said.
Vietnam has overtaken the Philippines as a furniture supplier to the world market, said
Michael Basubas, president of the Cebu Furniture Industry Foundation.
“In 2000, Vietnam was behind us. Now, they’re ahead of us,” Basubas said.

Another furniture store could be moving to south Springdale.
Brashears Furniture Co. in Berryville has made an offer on the building at 4900 S. Thompson St., the former site of Bynum Home Furnishings. Owner Doug Brashears hoped to close on the property today and possibly open the new location in early 2007.
“ It’s a market that’s [...]

Death row inmate Curtis Giovanni Flowers has won a new trial for killing four people at a Winona furniture store because prosecutors sought to keep blacks off his Montgomery County jury, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
Flowers had argued before the justices in February that race discrimination in the selection of the jury cast doubt [...]

The performance of Cebu’s furniture manufacturing and exporting industry has been affected by the stiff competition in the global furniture market posed by other Asian countries.
This is why the Cebu Furniture Industries Foundation Inc. (CFIF) is calling on industry players to be “on their toes” and to constantly find ways to improve and innovate.
“We can’t [...]

Start off an evening of fine dining with a fresh beet salad at the newly opened Craft at the W in Dallas.
The changing face of Dallas came into focus last week. With the opening of the W Hotel, serving as the centerpiece of Ross Perot Jr.’s massive Victory Park development, Big D enters a way-overdue [...]

Piano lessons may teach you how to play Chopin’s etudes, but techniques of a different sort are needed when figuring out where to put a piano in your home.
A badly chosen location can spoil the piano’s tune, crack the sounding board and bleach out the finish, costing $10,000 to $20,000 in repairs, says Rick Schaeffer, [...]

Separated by several hundred miles, the Berkline furniture plant in Baldwyn and the Broyhill Furniture plant in Lenoir, N.C., aren’t much alike.
The Mississippi facility makes reclining chairs, sofas and loveseats; the North Carolina plant makes wood case goods.
But workers at both locations, much to their dismay, have something unpleasant in common: Come Aug. 26, their [...]

A light-fingered cleaner is being blamed for the theft of thousands of pounds worth of antique furniture, art and historic bric-a-brac from the Queensland parliament.
To add to the embarrassment of politicians, staff and security personnel, nobody seems to have missed the fittings and artefacts, which once graced the elegant state parliamentary building in Brisbane’s city [...]

Furniture Row® Companies will once again expand its presence in Colorado with the opening of a new 85,000 square foot Furniture Row® Shopping Center located in Dacono. The new Center, located at 3440 East I-25 Frontage Road just south of the Colorado National Speedway at exit 232, will host a variety of events during its [...]

World Market Center is sponsoring seminars delving into the most recent design trends and use of colors in the home furnishings industry, all of which are free to attendees of Las Vegas Market. These special featured attractions will take place July 25 and July 26 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
“Colorwatch Seminar” hosted [...]