The members of Furniture Market Union, Sector 34, have demanded that the administration provide open space to them. Highlighting their problems, the traders said that lack of open space is affecting their business.
In a press conference held here today, Seva Singh Rayat, chairman of the association, said that the traders engaged in the furniture business [...]

A company that supplied allegedly faulty Martha Stewart-brand glass-top patio tables that shatter during normal use has filed for bankruptcy.
JRA Furniture Industries LLC on Tuesday filed a Chapter 7 petition in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Del.
The Cerritos, Calif., company is a defendant in a class-action lawsuit along with Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. [...]

Two Mt. Pleasant men are in Westmoreland County Prison, and a woman is being sought by borough police for allegedly stealing about $3,700 worth of furniture from a Levin Furniture storage facility on two occasions, police said.
Borough police arrested Brian Grosser, 36, and Daniel John Boyle, 25, both of 808 W. Smithfield St., for allegedly [...]

Hubli – The staff of the City Corporation seized the furniture of the office of the Airport Authority of India (AAI) here for allegedly owing Rs. 48 lakh towards taxes of the Hubli Airport. Despite sending several reminders to remit the tax, AAI reportedly turned a blind eye thus necessitating the Corporation staff to raid [...]

igilance Organisation (VO) has unearthed an embezzlement in the purchase of furniture for various panchayat ghars in the Kupwara district.
A VO spokesman said a case has been registered against Wali Muhammad Bhat, former district Panchayat officer Kupwara and his senior assistant Muhammad Munawar Lone involved in the scam.
He said they are allegedly involved in an [...]

An Olneyville furniture factory allegedly targeted for an arson fire was insured for $4 million, an arson investigator testified in District Court yesterday.
East Sider Markus Gorkin, owner of the factory, is charged with first-degree arson for an alleged unsuccessful attempt to destroy the building by using what investigators describe as elaborate incendiary devices triggered by [...]

A team of 15 officers from the Prevention and Intelligence Section of the Royal Customs and Excise Department acted swiftly to foil an attempt to smuggle furniture and mattresses by a suspected syndicate, yesterday.
Acting on a tip-off from the public, enforcement officers successfully confiscated a total of 142 pieces of furniture worth an estimated sum [...]

Facing mounting debts, vicious overseas competition and a downturn in the residential housing market, one of Southwest Florida’s largest manufacturers appears to have melted down.
With debts of nearly $5 million, CFI Manufacturing-Carter Grandle Furniture last week filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from its creditors.
It has shed all but eight of its more than 100 [...]

HIGH POINT – Furniture Buy Direct, ordered by the state attorney general to stop collecting in advance for sales because of customer complaints, has shut down.
Wake County Superior Court last week granted the state Attorney General’s office a temporary restraining order against the online retailer. More than 300 customers have complained that they didn’t receive [...]

Over the weekend and up to yesterday, massive “lootings” were ongoing at the Capitol Building, seat of the First Branch of Government, by some people believed to be workers of that institution and “bad boys” living within its vicinity.
The United States Government is expected to carry on major renovation work at the Capitol and lawmakers [...]