Information industry, investment, transportation, energy and tourism will be the major sectors in future economic cooperation between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), experts said.
“Traded products between China and ASEAN are changing from raw products to finished industrial goods, especially mechanical, electrical or high-tech products,” said Gao Hucheng, vice minister of [...]

WYOMING — Eight years ago, Gilmore Furniture Inc. followed a hunch and bought a bankrupt office-furniture company. At the time, Cumberland was just a name.
Now, that classic brand is booming for Gilmore, a manufacturer with a niche in wood-based furniture.
In just three years, sales are up 350 percent for Cumberland, Gilmore’s traditional furniture line. This [...]

PHILADELPHIA - The goal had apocalyptic overtones: to design furniture for survivors confined to tight, temporary shelters after a natural disaster.
To carry it out, social activist and conceptual artist Peggy Diggs turned to a population that is expert at compact living.
Prison inmates.
For more than 18 months, the 60-year-old instructor from Williams College in Massachusetts [...]

WASHINGTON — Today, the nation’s fire marshals and victims of furniture fires are launching an awareness campaign meant to pressure the commission to set national fire safety standards for upholstered furniture.
The federal government first reported in 1972 that standards were needed, but efforts by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to adopt enforceable rules have [...]

Terra Furniture has appointed the team of Benner-O’Meara to handle all of its sales for the Southern California patio dealer market.
“John Benner and Ron O’Meara have a strong understanding of the outdoor furnishing marketplace and are highly respected in their field,” Terra President Ken Burrows said. “Terra is proud to add them to our [...]

The Art Deco Home has many new designs of Art Deco furniture for sale, including works by the great masters of Art Deco design.
PIERRE CHAREAU
The Maison de Verre (French for House of Glass) was built from 1928 to 1931 in Paris, France. Constructed in the early modern style of architecture, the house’s design emphasized [...]

For more than a decade, Easter Seals National Board of Directors has annually recognized the role of volunteerism in charitable giving by recognizing a philanthropist who had made a significant impact on Easter Seals. This year Jake Jabs, President and CEO of Colorado’s largest furniture retailer, of American Furniture Warehouse, has received the prestigious Easter [...]

THE Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court yesterday ordered Shanghai Banri Family Appliance Co Ltd to compensate Beijing Innovation Co Ltd, a Denmark-invested furniture company, 50,000 yuan (US$6,250) for patent violation.
Innovation received a patent for a sofabed designed by its parent company in China in July 2003. It found Banri was selling a similar sofabed [...]

ST. PETERSBURG - Vepsalainen, the largest design furniture store chain in Finland, opened its first Russian store late last week and presented plans to give Swedish rival IKEA some competition by opening nine more over the next two years.
The St. Petersburg store, Design House Vepsalainen, covers 2,050 square meters and cost about 500,000 euros ($625,000), [...]

MILAN, Italy Poltrona Frau SpA CEO Giuliano Mosconi said the luxury Italian furniture maker intends to use money raised from its initial public offer launched Monday to finance new products, stores and marketing around the world.
Poltrona Frau expects to raise up to €88 million (US$111.9 million) by selling 35 percent of the company’s shares on [...]