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Furniture Brands International Inc. for the second time in a week announced it is closing one of its manufacturing facilities, this time in Carysbrook, Va.

Phillip Miller, president of Virginia operations for Creative Interiors a divison of Furniture Brands, said the 200,000-square-foot plant, which employs 170 people, will close by Nov. 23 due to a decrease in business. On Sept. 20, another Furniture Brands unit announced it was closing its North Carolina facility.

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A SECOND hand furniture shop at Seaton was allegedly fire-bombed early this morning.
Witnesses said they saw a person smash the front window of the business about 1.20 am this morning then return a short time later throwing a lit object inside.

The Tapleys Hill road business sustained about $100,000 damage according to police.

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HIALEAH, Fla. (WSVN) — Hialeah Fire Rescue responding to 5 Brothers Furniture Warehouse located 395 E 10th Avenue.

Shortly after 7 p.m. on Thursday firefighters first responded to a different address due to the spreading smoke. When crews arrived they found flames shooting from this unoccupied building and made this a 2 Alarm fire. The roof did collapse on the warehouse so firefighters are now fighting in a defensive mode. The business next door was also affected by the flames. There are no injuries. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

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Kolcraft Enterprises, the maker of baby furnishings, recalled about 425,000 playpens after the strangulation of a 10-month-old boy, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said yesterday.

The agency said in a statement that it received a report of a boy strangled by a looped restraining strap hanging from a changing table on the company’s Sesame Beginnings Travel Play Yard.

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Kids Today,,By Jeff Linville

Battered by low-cost imports, 30-year-old rustic youth bedroom maker Barn Door here will cease production at the end of October, with the factory closing by year’s end.

“After several years of declining sales and mounting losses with no improvement in sight, the company’s owners decided to close the facility,” said John Paul Tate, son of President John Tate.

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Kids Today
According to Child Craft President Bill Suvak, reports that ran in this week’s Louisville Courier-Journal and Indianapolis Star are incorrect and were triggered by a simple recertification process.

Child Craft, based in New Salisbury, Ind., applied for Trade Adjustment Assistance through the U.S. Department of Labor in 2004. This program was put in place by the government to assist displaced employees from companies that have been affected by the globalization of trade. 

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By: Furniture World Magazine  

Ashley Furniture Industries is donating $50,000 to the National Furniture Bank Association (NFBA), the unified charitable organization of the furnishings industry. The NFBA facilitates Help1Up, the service which annually collects used furniture from over 125,000 homes in America, then gives the furniture to families in need.

There will be a check presentation ceremony attened by senior executives of Ashley Furniture Industries and the NFBA as well as news media and other industry members on Monday, October 1, 2007 in the Ashley Showroom, IHFC H900, High Point, NC at 10:00-10:15 AM.

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Furniture Today,
ST. LOUIS — Furniture Brands International said it has asked the two major debt ratings agencies, Moody’s and Standard and Poor’s, to withdraw their ratings for the company.

FBI, which refinanced much of its debt earlier this year, said its lenders no longer require debt ratings.

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Heath E. Combs — Furniture Today,

HIGH POINT — A North Carolina court has found case goods importer Collezione Europa guilty of copyright infringement for representing Universal Furniture product as its own in its High Point Market showroom.

On Sept. 14, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina ruled that Collezione Europa violated the federal Lanham Act barring unfair competition and North Carolina’s Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices Act.

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By: Furniture World Magazine  

The High Point Market Authority reported that they have published a 512-page High Point Market Furniture and Designer Preview, the largest published in the history of that publication.

“The high caliber of premier companies that choose to advertise in the Furniture and Designer Previews, and the companion Accessory Preview, reflects not only the stature and vigor of the High Point Market, but the continuing importance of the design trade to our Market,” says Brian D. Casey, president and chief executive of the High Point Market Authority. “It is also a reminder of the great number of preeminent home furnishings names that exhibit here. Indeed, the High Point Market is truly the only high-end furniture market in North America.”

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