Furniture Brands International said it has regained compliance with the New York Stock Exchange on its stock listings prices.

Following a third quarter sales decline of 5.1% to $258 million compared to 2010 figures, Furniture Brands Intl revealed cost reduction actions for the quarter to offset the deficit included the layoff of 3.5 percent of its 8,700 member workforce during the time period.

It wouldn't be the first time I added 2 and 2 and got 5, but the fact that Ashley Furniture is eyeing Furniture Brand's Thomasville RTA furniture plant in Virginia, makes me wonder if it is the unnamed company that had made a play for Mill's Pride's RTA cabinet plant in Ohio.

TAMBAK AJI, INDONESIA -- Furniture Brands Intl, the largest manufacturer of furniture in North America, is building a 1.4 million-square-foot case goods plant and distribution center in Tambak Aji, which will be the company's largest case goods plant in the world, according to Furniture Today.

The U.S. Supreme Court decided against hearing a case challenging the controversial Byrd Amendment, potentially freeing at least $60 million held by the U.S. government to be distributed to the petitioners of the 2004 furniture antidumping case against wood bedroom furniture made in China.