HIGH POINT, N.C. - Residential furniture orders rose 7% in October compared to the year prior, marking a 10-month streak of year-over-year growth, according to the latest Furniture Insights survey of residential furniture manufacturers and distributors from Smith Leonard.

HIGH POINT, N.C. – A new program developed by Underwriters Lab in partnership with the American Home Furnishings Alliance will help consumers verify, and identify, furniture that meets voluntary stability standards. According to AHFA, four case goods companies served as pilot sites and have successfully completed the new Stability Verified program. The four — Ashley Furniture, Hooker Furniture, Samson Marketing and Sauder Woodworking — could have Stability Verified products available online or in retail stores as early as November.

HIGH POINT, N.C. - Residential furniture orders rose 5% in May compared to the year prior, marking five straight months of year-over-year growth, according to the latest Furniture Insights survey of residential furniture manufacturers and distributors from Smith Leonard. An estimated 63% of those surveyed reported an increase in new orders for May, compared to 79% which growth in April, the accounting and consulting firm reported. Year-to-date new orders remain 6% ahead of last year's figures for the same time period.

Heritage Home Group is selling the company's Broyhill, Thomasville & Co. and Luxury Group business units as the residential furniture giant files Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Residential furniture orders jumped 15% in April compared to the year prior, marking four straight months of year-over-year growth, according to the latest Furniture Insights survey of residential furniture manufacturers and distributors from Smith Leonard.

Despite a sluggish first quarter in overall business, residential furniture orders for March rose slightly, 2%, compared to the year prior, according to the latest Furniture Insights survey of residential furniture manufacturers and distributors from Smith Leonard. Less than half of those surveyed, 42%, reported an increase in new orders, the accounting and consulting firm reported.

HIGH POINT, N.C. - Despite gains in October and November, residential furniture orders dropped 9% in December compared to the year prior,  according to the latest Furniture Insights survey of residential furniture manufacturers and distributors from Smith Leonard. December's drop is only the second time in 2017 where new orders decreased compared with the same month in the year prior.

McCONNELLSVILLE, N.Y. — Less than a month after shuttering its doors, Harden Furniture has recalled 82 workers as the longtime residential and contract furniture maker resumes limited production at its McConnellsville, New York factory. 

Residential furniture orders rose 11% in November compared to the year prior, according to the latest Furniture Insights survey of residential furniture manufacturers and distributors from Smith Leonard. New orders were up for approximately 59% of the surveyed participants.

An investigation is underway after 709 pounds of cocaine were found in containers of furniture and cabinetry shipped from Puerto Rico. The Nov. 2 seizure by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers from the Area Port of Philadelphia has a street value of approximately $22 million.