When the international natural stone industry meets in Nürnberg from 20-23 May, the exhibition centre will again be geared to stone and all its varieties. Stone+tec, which attracted some 1, 000 exhibitors and more than 40, 000 trade visitors at the last event, has constantly proved its importance as one of the major international exhibitions [...]

Sealy Corporation (NYSE: ZZ – News), the largest bedding manufacturer in the world, today announced results for its third quarter of fiscal 2008.
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Net sales for the fiscal quarter ended August 31, 2008 decreased 9.3% to $405.0 million compared to the same period in the prior year. Net income for the third quarter was $10.9 million [...]

The local government of Cebu was received warmly by Austrian traders who showed great interest in investing and importing furniture from the province.
Cebu officials led by Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia were in full force during their visit to Vienna last month to present the province’s unique furniture business to the Austrian Chamber of Commerce.
“I really make [...]

Since 2005, Formanova, a maker of high-end furniture, has been trying to conquer a customer in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. It was in April this year that the company managed to sell its first products and conquered a large customer, Western Furniture, which owns five stores in the country. “In three months, all [...]

FURNITURE industry players in Cebu have decided to formally tap the academe in their efforts to “ride the waves” in maintaining global competitiveness.
The Cebu Furniture Industries Foundation Inc. (CFIF), a group of furniture manufacturers and exporters, has formed a partnership with University of San Carlos, the Canadian International Development Agency-funded Private Enterprise Accelerated Resource Linkages [...]

World furniture trade amounts to about US$ 90 billion. The degree of market openness is continuously increasing across the globe, from East to West. New furniture production bases are gaining ground and the overall scenario is changing fast.
China is a leading player on the global furniture market, having produced more than US$ 50 billion of [...]

Steve Young opened Amherst Wall Furniture in 1976 after he couldn’t find a good cabinet for his 19-inch TV. Now, 31 years later, his television is 42 inches wide, he has a custom cabinet in a white-wash finish to hold it, and he is closing the store that was a pioneer in furniture made to [...]

All employees at Beaufurn LLC are involved in product development in some way.
Bill Bongaerts, the president of the furniture manufacturer in Winston-Salem, often asks warehouse workers what they think of a chair.
“That’s how you come up with a product that goes on the market,” he said.
Linnea Johnson, a graphic designer for the company, said that [...]

All employees at Beaufurn LLC are involved in product development in some way.
Bill Bongaerts, the president of the furniture manufacturer in Winston-Salem, often asks warehouse workers what they think of a chair.
“That’s how you come up with a product that goes on the market,” he said.
Linnea Johnson, a graphic designer for the company, said that [...]

While imports continue to play a growing role in furniture production, Stanley Furniture remains committed to domestic manufacturing.
“We are quite the contrarians,” said Stanley Furniture President/CEO Jeff Scheffer.
Stanley manufactures 65 percent of its products and imports 35 percent.
With estimates that 80 percent of the wood furniture sold in this country is made elsewhere, Scheffer [...]