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From Home Furnishing Business
June 12,
2017 by Larry Thomas in Bedding, Product 
Hollander Sleep Products, the nation’s biggest producer of synthetic-filled top-of-bed products, has acquired Pacific Coast Feather, the biggest producer of down and feather sleep products.
June 9,
2017 by Larry Thomas in Executive Changes, Industry, Mattresses, Product
Adjustable bed producer Customatic has named Brad Mills to the newly created position of director of customer care.
June 9,
2017 by Larry Thomas in Industry, Special Events
The late Hugh Talley, a longtime executive in the polyurethane foam industry executive and a key contributor to the voluntary flammability standards for upholstered furniture, has been inducted into the Flexible Polyurethane Foam Hall of Fame.
June 9,
2017 by Larry Thomas in Community / Charitable Support, Industry
Southern California retailer Jerome’s Furniture has donated more than $2,500 worth of furniture to Operation Homefront’s Transitional Housing Village in San Diego.
June 9,
2017 by Larry Thomas in Business Strategy, Industry
DAW’s Home Furnishings in El Paso, Texas, and George’s Furniture and Mattresses in Napoleon, Ohio, are the two newest members of Furniture First, a national buying group for independent retailers.
June 8,
2017 by Larry Thomas in Business Strategy, Industry
Dissident Rent-A-Center shareholder Engaged Capital has succeeded in ousting three of the company’s directors, including longtime board chairman Mark Speese.
June 8,
2017 by Larry Thomas in Financial Reports, Industry, Mattresses, Product
Steinhoff International, the South African retail conglomerate that acquired Mattress Firm last year, said revenues shot up 48% to $10.17 billion euros (about $11.45 million) in the six months ended March 31 – the first half of its fiscal year.