A COLNE furniture firm has had £20,000 worth of sofas stolen from its yard for the second time in as many months.
Audacious thieves cut through locks on the gates of Furnico Ltd in Phillips Lane, hooked up a cab to a laden 40ft goods trailer and drove it away.
The incident, which happened between 5 p.m. [...]

American Century Home Fabrics, which operates from the former Swink Plant on South Main Street near China Grove, is buying high-end furniture maker Jeffco and will create a new corporate entity called The Chelsea Frank Group.
According to a Furniture Today report, the new group plans a major business thrust into the interior design and luxury [...]

Christie’s sale of English furniture on Monday in New York includes some 18th-century Irish antiques, each carefully notated in the catalog with a typically Irish winged-harp symbol. The harp is helpful, because it can be difficult to identify 18th-century Irish antiques.
Even experts become confused, but help is on the way. Yale University Press has just [...]

In the aftermath of two major floods, and following a declaration by President George W. Bush designating Westchester County a federal disaster area, a new resource has opened that provides furniture, and some much-needed hope, to those in need.
Furniture Sharehouse celebrated its official opening on April 24 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Westchester County [...]

While many “Main Street” businesses around the nation are closing up shop, American Country Home Store has reached global proportions with their online wicker furniture store, shipping wicker every day to locations around the country. Based in Ames, Iowa, this small-town wicker furniture store is proof that doing business in a small community no longer [...]

THESPIAN Christine Smith could hardly believe her eyes when she picked up her copy of the Examiner on Monday.
For there on our Mailbag page was a nostalgic picture of Huddersfield Thespians taken in 1961, which showed that nothing much changes.
Forty-six years ago, the Thespians were bringing down the curtain on their season with a production [...]

Furniture Brands International, the parent company of Thomasville Furniture Industries and several other furniture manufacturers, will announce across the board job cuts Friday.
A Thomasville Furniture spokesman would not comment Thursday on the possible cuts, but the word is spreading quickly among workers who have said they have heard the news, but have not yet been [...]

The South West’s brightest design-led furniture showroom uncovers this year’s must have furniture designs
Choosing furniture for your home can prove a tricky business with a number of important factors to consider such as size, shape, colour, style and feel. Not forgetting the very important issues of practicality and comfort, what should be an enjoyable shopping [...]

Furniture Brands International Inc. said today it will close three manufacturing plants in North Carolina, including one in Thomasville.
Thomasville Furniture will consolidate its Plant C case goods operation, located in Thomasville, into its Lenoir case goods plant. Plant C is a 325,000-square-foot facility and employs about 100 people. The plant will cease manufacturing in July.
Thomasville [...]

Furniture Brands International, Inc. announced the elimination of approximately 80 executive and administrative employees across the entire company; the closure of 3 manufacturing facilities in North Carolina, resulting in the elimination of approximately 150 employees; and the elimination of approximately 100 employees related to ongoing manufacturing operations across the company.
The company estimates this move [...]