Staff Management | SMX, a provider of workforce management solutions, announced that it has been awarded a multi-year contract with Sauder Woodworking.

Sauder Woodworking goes more deeply into the category of “whole home”collections that include dining, bedroom, kitchen and occasional as well as home office and entertainment. Seen at the Spring High Point Market.

Three students of Rolla Technical Institute of Rolla, MO, took first place in the WoodLINKS USA ready-to-assemble (RTA) furniture contest at the International Woodworking Fair last month in Atlanta.

Building on the modest growth seen in 2011, analysts are predicting 3.5 percent growth for residential furnishings for 2012, said Andy Counts, CEO of the American Home Furnishings Alliance.

RTA furniture giant Sauder Woodworking has been named a winner of the 2011 Sage Award for environmental excellence in the home furnishings field.

Union workers at the Swedwood factory in Danville, VA, have approved a three-year contract with the IKEA furniture manufacturing plant. It is the group’s first collective bargaining agreement and is expected to go into effect upon signing.

JAMESTOWN, NY -- Bush Furniture, a manufacturer of ready-to-assemble furniture for the home and office, has expanded its my|space line to include coordinated small space solutions for the home.

DARTMOUTH, NOVA SCOTIA -- The Scanwood furniture saga is coming to a fateful end.

DELFT, NETHERLANDS -- IKEA, the world's largest wood furniture retailer, is mulling its legal options concerning a Chinese company that has launched a near mint replica of one of its stores.

DARTMOUTH, NOVA SCOTIA -- Homag Canada's request to repossess approximately $1.1 million at the failed Scanwood Canada Ltd. factory, which supplied ready-to-assemble furniture to IKEA, was rejected by the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia.