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Will you donate office furniture to non profit org in Atlanta?

June 19th, 2009

Non profit organization located in the Atlanta area is looking for open statelite office. We provide medical and social services to families of children with cancer and other catastrophic illnesses. We are looking for desks, fax machine, telephone consoles, file cabinets, office supplies, sofa, love seats, waiting room chairs, tables, micro waves, [...]


Bassett Announces Third Quarter 2008 Results of Operations

October 11th, 2008

Bassett Furniture Industries Inc. announced today its results of operations for its fiscal quarter and 40 week period ended August 30, 2008.
Sales for the quarter ended August 30, 2008 were $70.2 million as compared to $70.5 million for the quarter ended August 25, 2007. The 2008 and 2007 reported sales were increased by reported revenue [...]


Mistler’s Oak Furniture celebrates 12 years of business

July 23rd, 2007

Mark Mistler is a third generation furniture salesman and opened his own business 12 years ago on Hwy. 7 South just a couple of minutes from downtown Harrison.
Sometimes it seems that the term ‘honest salesman’ is an oxymoron. But that is not the case with local resident and business owner, Mark Mistler.
Sometimes it seems [...]


Leath Furniture going out of business

May 17th, 2007

Leath Furniture is going out of business, according to sales fliers the company mailed to customers this week.
Its store at 107 S. Mall Drive, Normal, will start liquidation sales May 24 and close when inventory is gone, said Roy Hester, an investor in the Atlanta, Ga.-based Leath chain and vice president of sales for liquidator [...]


Company sending furniture for Enterprise High School

April 13th, 2007

Workers for Midwest Folding Products in Chicago loaded a truckload of furniture that will be donated to Enterprise High School to aid in its rebuilding process. MFP shipped 19 mobile cafeteria tables and 60 folding tables for use throughout the school. Sister company Artco-Bell Corp. of Temple, Texas, is also set to send classroom furniture [...]


Furniture giant Ikea has big Tampa plan

March 28th, 2007

Ikea’s affiliation with clean living suggested the Swedish furniture chain might gravitate to the suburban green fields of Interstate 75.
But it was a gritty industrial site between the Port of Tampa and Ybor City that Ikea named Monday as the future home of its third Florida megastore.
A $22-billion global company best known for its blond, [...]


Google Is Reviving Hopes for Ex-Furniture Makers

March 15th, 2007

Almost 40 years ago, when Irene Marsh was a young woman, she took a few months of computer science courses. But when Ms. Marsh realized that would not help her find a job in this Appalachian furniture region, she dropped out and went to work in a factory making tabletops.
Then, like thousands of other furniture [...]


E-voting components found in old furniture, sold on eBay

January 30th, 2007

The security of electronic voting is getting another look after voter access cards and ballot encoders were sold in an Internet auction.
About 40 voter access cards and three electronic ballot encoders for DeKalb County were bought earlier this month on the Web site eBay, Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel said. Seven supervisor’s cards, which [...]


Furniture retailer IKEA to build Charlotte store, first in Carolinas

January 20th, 2007

Charlotte | Just down the highway from the world’s largest marketplace for home furnishings, there will soon be another giant building filled with stuff on which to sit and sleep: an iconic blue-and-yellow IKEA.
The Swedish-based retailer of inexpensive modern furniture said Wednesday construction will start soon on a store that will open in spring 2009. [...]


IKEA Charlotte, to Open Spring 2009, Will Be First Furniture and Home Furnishings Store in Carolinas, Fourth in Southeast

January 19th, 2007

IKEA, the world’s leading furniture and home furnishings retailer, today announced plans for a store in Charlotte, NC, increasing the Swedish retailer’s planned presence in the Southeastern United States. Pending city approvals, construction of the future IKEA Charlotte that will sell exclusively designed furniture and home furnishing items, could begin as early as next summer, [...]