A study has found that learning outcomes in college students are positively correlated with an active learning environment.

Dorel Industries invested $1.6 million to acquire the remaining shares of Dorel Juvenile Brazil, making it a wholly owned subsidiary of the home furnishings and juvenile products company.

In a managed research study reviewed and approved by The Heartland Institutional Review Board (IRB), Steelcase Education found 84 percent of students reported being more engaged in classwork when taught in an active learning environment.

MasterBrand Cabinets is seeking production management at multiple sites, including a plant superintendent for the third shift in Arthur, IL, a production supervisor in Talladega, AL, and a quality service and delivery manager in Jasper, IN.

WalzCraft introduces its newly updated Signature Series Brochure (3.7) with over 70 new Cabinet Door and Drawer Front designs in styles ranging from Traditional to Contemporary.

New orders for residential furniture increased 12 percent in October compared to a year earlier, according to the latest survey of manufacturers and distributors by High Point accounting and consulting firm Smith Leonard.

One-time furniture manufacturing giant Vaughan Furniture, Galax, VA, will close operations. The company, which at it peak employed 1,800 in multiple factory sites, now wholesales furniture and has just a handful of workers.

Wal-mart's (NYSE: WMT) Sams Club unit has launched a furniture collection designed by Nicholas Sparks, the best-selling novelist and screenwriter. Some pieces of the Black Mountain Collection are made in the U.S.

Sam's Club, a unit of Wal-mart (NYSE: WMT), announced a new, exclusive furniture collection from best-selling novelist, screenwriter and producer Nicholas Sparks.

Elkay's Schuler Cabinetry launched a multi-step Cappucino finish, available on a variety of wood species, including cherry, knotty alder, oak and quartersawn oak. The line of face frame kitchen cabinets is sold at Lowe's.