ATLANTA — March brought mild sales gains and declines to three publicly held furniture retailers, with Havertys up, The Bombay Company down and Pier 1 Imports reporting a little of both. Atlanta-based full-line retailer Havertys…

By: Furniture World Magazine  Havertys' sales for March increased 2.1% to $74.7 million compared with $73.2 million for March 2012. On a comparable-store basis, March sales increased 0.7%. Sales for the first quarter of 2013…

Will import entire line HIGH POINT -- Case goods company Cresent Fine Furniture plans to cease domestic production this spring and move to a fully sourced line. The plant in Gallatin, Tenn., will become a warehouse,…

By: Furniture World Magazine  "The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area" (http://triad.bizjournals.com) ran a March 31st article, "Furniture retailers look for mortgage tie-in" that discussed a new phenominon in the industry --- using home…

Susan Fornoff, Chronicle Staff Writer At the entrance to Century, makers of big, high-end furniture, it's designer Richard Frinier's outdoor Kyoto collection that is front and center. Downstairs at Dunkirk, Kirk Wayland's showroom overflows with…

-- Furniture Today, Maison Ethier stores open in Montreal MONTREAL -- U.S.-based upholstery manufacturer Berkline has opened its first galleries in Canada, in two Maison Ethier stores in metro Montreal. Both Berkline Comfort Galleries are 9,000…

-- Mary Beth Breckenridge Soon it will be time to haul the patio furniture out of storage and back out into the sunshine. If yours is looking less than its best, try these spruce-up ideas…

Clint Engel Opens 20,000 sq ft store LEAWOOD, Kan. -- Seville Home has expanded to a 20,000-square-foot showroom here, a sign that not all Kansas City-area retailers are wilting in the shadow of Nebraska Furniture Mart.…