El Dorado Furniture has decided to donate furniture to 40 needy families in South Florida to mark its 40th anniversary.
The 40 Years, 40 Families campaign was announced during an anniversary celebration earlier this week at El Dorado’s first store in Calle Ocho in Little Havana. The store opened June 27, 1967, and since that time, [...]

Phil Lowe has received some pretty neat commissions during his 35 years as a furniture maker.
The Beverly resident made chairs for Abraham Lincoln’s childhood home in Springfield, Ill., desks for the Immigration Museum at Ellis Island and a Chippendale bed for the Derby House in Salem.
Last summer, though, his dream job fell into his lap, [...]

With the theme song from his reality television show blaring in the background, Donald Trump strode into a showroom at the world’s biggest furniture trade show and started to brag about, of all things, his couch.
“Trump Home furniture offers consumers a tangible way to experience the luxurious Trump lifestyle for themselves … even if they [...]

A study by economists and industry experts at High Point University finds that the home furnishings cluster generated an economic impact of $8.25 billion on the Triad region in 2006.
That includes industry output as well as employment and takes into account major supporting industries, wholesale and retail sales and the High Point Market as [...]

The voluntary administrator of the retailer Casual Living says the company is about $12 million in debt.
Martin Lewis, from administrator Ferrier Hodgson, says the South Australian-based business with five stores in Adelaide, three in Sydney and two in Melbourne, ran into trouble when it expanded interstate too quickly.
The company, with 120 employees, is still trading [...]

Max Home LLC will open an upholstered furniture operation in the Iuka Industrial Park. The company is scheduled to begin setting up operations in July.
The factory would open with 50 new jobs and the company expects the factory to have 150 employees within a year.
If you are interested in applying for a job with Max [...]

With a reputation for superior customer service, a leading home furnishing retailer wanted to further improve its call center operations and customer service levels by changing the way the company monitored calls and delivered customer service. It achieved these goals by adopting an innovative, industry leading customer survey and analysis tool, Echo(TM), now available from [...]

The closing of one factory’s doors means a job-market window may open in Winnipeg.
Palliser Furniture announced today the closing of its Airdrie, Alberta plant and the transfer of Canadian manufacturing to its Winnipeg factory.
The 142,000-square ft. Alberta facility employees 135 furniture manufacturers and upholsterers who will all be phased out by November.
A release issued by [...]

Galiform, the former owner of furniture retailer MFI, has announced plans for about 560 job losses as part of a restructuring of its supply arm.
The group, which sold the MFI retail chain last October to private equity for £1, said the job cuts were expected under plans to “streamline” its furniture supply operations.
But Galiform added [...]

A new program with the Chattanooga Housing Authority is helping the homeless find shelter faster, but it’s creating a new problem.
Called the “Special Admissions Program,” it allows agencies like the Salvation Army and Chattanooga Rescue Mission to pre-screen folks for housing.
Those who make the cut usually have housing within a month.
The fast-track is good news, [...]