ProSource Wholesale, a wholesale home improvement franchise that sells to and through professional remodelers and installers, says it completed development agreement to open a new ProSource showroom in Fort Lauderdale Florida.

Wood is currently trending in retail, with stores vying to showcase the latest and greatest in fixtures. Timber Products has several partnerships with retailers, such as Leggett & Platt and West Coast Fixtures, and supplies them with wood products that they use to make unique and eye-catching retail fixtures.

Hardwood sawmill Linden Lumber announced its closing its hardwood flooring division immediately, reducing personnel by 37 employees.

ICFF organizers say a record number of attendees visited the Jacob K. Javits Center, May 14-17 for the furniture show’s 2016 edition. The show also had 130 new exhibitors and 587 returning brands and pavilions, for a 30 percent larger footprint.

Wilsonart, a manufacturer of decorative engineered surfaces, has chosen Stephen Marchio of the College for Creative Studies as the winner of its Student Chair Design Competition.

Tightening the joint with new types of fasteners is on the radar for wood manufacturers. The new breed of hardware requiring unique machining of panel and solid wood is shaping up to be a top joinery story for IWF 2016 in August.

Celebrity cook Rachael Ray formally launched new upholstered furniture and laminate casegoods in the Rachael Ray Home Collection, being produced by Samson Marketing's Legacy Classic and Craftmaster Furniture divisions.

Winners of the ICFF Editors’ Awards, recognizing the best and most innovative furnishing designs, were announced at the show, which closed

U.S. home improvement retailer Lowe's Companies received approval for the purchase of the Canadian home improvement company Rona.

The Commerce Department has reported a 6.6 percent increase in new housing starts to an annual rate of 1.17 million units. The increase is good news after March’s 9.4 percent drop.