Online lifestyle retailer Kaufmann Mercantile has launched its first furniture line, an American-made high quality heirloom furniture collection called 'Kaufmann.'

Semihandmade, a maker of high-end replacement doors for IKEA cabinets, has made the Inc 500 list of fasting-growing privately owned U.S. companies.

Reclaimed lumber merchant StoriedBoards is expanding, as demand for its boards taken from historic structures increases. The three-year-old business will begin selling $499 mantels made from reclaimed boards, nationally with the addition of a 2,500 square foot plant.

Bassett Furniture announced plans to open a new 86,000-square-foot residential furniture manufacturing plant in Grand Prairie, Texas, in 2016.

Ashley Furniture will create 450 additional jobs at its Davie County, North Carolina manufacturing plant over the next five years, and it will invest approximately $8.7 million.

Aaron's, Inc. announced plans to hire 700 new associates as part of the company's first-ever National Hiring Event.

Furniture firm Aaron's, Inc. (NYSE: AAN) remodeled the Boys & Girls Clubs of Americac clubhouse in Akron, including new kitchen cabinetry and appliances.

The U.S. Lumber Coalition says the U.S.- Canada Softwood Lumber Agreement that expired October 12, 2015, is due for a rewrite, calling on Canada to come to the table, citing "Canada's unfair lumber-trade practices, including the gross under-pricing of timber on government-owned lands."

Masonite International Corporation (NYSE: DOOR) appointed Russell Tiejema as Executive Vice President and CFO. He took his position effective November 2, 2015.

Robinson Lumber Company, an importer and exporter of lumber, decking, and flooring, becomes the sole distributor in the eastern U.S. of tropical hardwood flooring, decking and lumber from Bozovich, a Lima, Peru lumber sourcing firm.