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Judge orders furniture site to stop taking orders

Top furniture manufacturers don’t compete with their retailers – they use the web to get shoppers into the stores.

Posted 06/18/2003Kurt PetersPost a comment

Furniture Brands sits out the Internet

In the next several years there could be as many as 400,000 merchants selling consumer goods over the Internet, but the largest maker of home furniture won’t be among them. St. Louis-based Furniture Brands International, which manufactures Broyhill, Lane and Thomasville furniture, announced in June that it has no immediate interest in selling online. Instead, the company will continue to sell furniture through its existing network of more than...

Posted 12/26/2000Don DavisPost a comment