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Furniture Brands International

Index Furniture Brands International

Furniture Brands International, Inc., was a Clayton, Missouri-based home furnishings company. [1]

90 relations: Altavista, Virginia, American City Business Journals, American Home Furnishings Alliance, Animal Farm, Armstrong World Industries, Back office, Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co., Bankruptcy, Bloomberg Businessweek, Boston, Caleres, Canada, Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code, Chester, Illinois, City Museum, Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914, Clayton, Missouri, Columbia Manufacturing Inc., Converse (shoe company), Delaware, Depression of 1920–21, Drexel Burnham Lambert, Drexel, North Carolina, Edgar E. Rand, Emporis, England Furniture Incorporated, Ethan Allen (furniture company), Europe, Federal Trade Commission, Florsheim Shoes (company), Frank C. Rand, Great Depression, Hannibal, Missouri, Havertys, Henry Hale Rand, Heritage Home Group, Hickory, North Carolina, High Point Market, High Point, North Carolina, Holding company, Illinois, Incorporation (business), Insider trading, International Hat Company, International Shoe Co. v. Washington, Isaac S. Taylor, Italy, Kentucky, KPS Capital Partners, La-Z-Boy, ..., Los Angeles Times, Maine Cottage, Masco, Memphis, Tennessee, Mexico, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Mississippi, Missouri, Modus Furniture, Mount Airy, North Carolina, National Labor Relations Board, National Register of Historic Places, New Deal, New Hampshire, New York Stock Exchange, North Carolina, Omaha World-Herald, Oscar Johnson (businessman), Piedmont Triad, Puerto Rico, Ralph and Terry Kovel, Ralph Lauren Corporation, Ralph Scozzafava, St. Louis, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Stalking horse offer, Supreme Court of the United States, The Daily Guide, The New York Times, Thomasville Furniture Industries, Thomasville, North Carolina, Trade union, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, United States Army, Upholstery, Vanderbilt University, Winston-Salem Journal, World Market Center Las Vegas, World War I, World War II. Expand index (40 more) »

Altavista, Virginia

Altavista is an incorporated town in Campbell County, Virginia, United States.

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American City Business Journals

"." Houston Business Journal.

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American Home Furnishings Alliance

The American Home Furnishings Alliance (AHFA), formerly the American Furniture Manufacturers Association, is an industry trade group which represents manufacturers and importers of home furnishings in the United States.

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Animal Farm

Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945.

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Armstrong World Industries

Armstrong World Industries, Inc. is a Pennsylvania corporation incorporated in 1891.

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Back office

A back office in most corporations is where tasks building layout of early companies where the front office would contain the sales and other customer-facing staff and the back office would be those manufacturing or developing the products or those involved in administration without being seen by customers.

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Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co.

Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co., 259 U.S. 20 (1922), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled the 1919 Child Labor Tax Law unconstitutional as an improper attempt by Congress to penalize employers using child labor.

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Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy is a legal status of a person or other entity that cannot repay debts to creditors.

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Bloomberg Businessweek

Bloomberg Businessweek is an American weekly business magazine published by Bloomberg L.P. Businessweek was founded in 1929.

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Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Caleres

Caleres Inc. is an American footwear company that owns and operates a variety of footwear brands.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code

Chapter 11 is a chapter of Title 11, the United States Bankruptcy Code, which permits reorganization under the bankruptcy laws of the United States.

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Chester, Illinois

Chester is a city in and the county seat of Randolph County, Illinois, United States, on a bluff above the Mississippi River.

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City Museum

City Museum is a museum whose exhibits consist largely of repurposed architectural and industrial objects, housed in the former International Shoe building in the Washington Avenue Loft District of St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

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Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914

The Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 (codified at), was a part of United States antitrust law with the goal of adding further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime; the Clayton Act sought to prevent anticompetitive practices in their incipiency.

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Clayton, Missouri

Clayton is a city in and the county seat of St. Louis County, Missouri, United States, and borders the city of St. Louis.

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Columbia Manufacturing Inc.

Columbia Manufacturing Inc. is a company located in Westfield, Massachusetts that manufactures chairs, desks, and other materials.

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Converse (shoe company)

Converse is an American shoe company that primarily produces skating shoes and lifestyle brand footwear and apparel.

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Delaware

Delaware is one of the 50 states of the United States, in the Mid-Atlantic or Northeastern region.

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Depression of 1920–21

The Depression of 1920–21 was a sharp deflationary recession in the United States and other countries, 14 months after the end of World War I. It lasted from January 1920 to July 1921.

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Drexel Burnham Lambert

Drexel Burnham Lambert was a major Wall Street investment banking firm that was forced into bankruptcy in February 1990 due to its involvement in illegal activities in the junk bond market, driven by Drexel employee Michael Milken.

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Drexel, North Carolina

Drexel is a town in Burke County, North Carolina, United States.

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Edgar E. Rand

Edgar E. Rand (c. 1905 – 1955) was an American heir, business executive and philanthropist.

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Emporis

Emporis GmbH is a real estate data mining company with headquarters in Hamburg, Germany.

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England Furniture Incorporated

England, Inc. (England Furniture Incorporated) is an American manufacturer of upholstered furniture.

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Ethan Allen (furniture company)

Ethan Allen Interiors Inc. is an American furniture chain with more than 300 stores across the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Federal Trade Commission

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act.

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Florsheim Shoes (company)

Florsheim Shoes is a shoe brand in the United States.

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Frank C. Rand

Frank C. Rand (February 25, 1876 - December 2, 1949) was an American businessman and philanthropist.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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Hannibal, Missouri

Hannibal is a city in Marion and Ralls counties in the U.S. state of Missouri.

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Havertys

Haverty Furniture Companies, Inc. ("Havertys") is a retail furniture company founded in 1885.

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Henry Hale Rand

Henry Hale Rand (1909–1962) was an American heir, business executive and philanthropist.

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Heritage Home Group

Heritage Home Group LLC, formed to purchase most assets of the defunct Furniture Brands International, is a High Point, North Carolina-based home furnishings company.

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Hickory, North Carolina

Hickory is a city located primarily in Catawba County, North Carolina, with parts in adjoining Burke and Caldwell counties.

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High Point Market

The High Point Market (formerly the International Home Furnishings Market and the Southern Furniture Market), held in High Point, North Carolina, is the largest home furnishings industry trade show in the world, with over 10 million square feet (1 km²) by roughly 2000 exhibitors throughout about 180 buildings.

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High Point, North Carolina

High Point is a city located in the Piedmont Triad region of the state of North Carolina.

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Holding company

A holding company is a company that owns other companies' outstanding stock.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Incorporation (business)

Incorporation is the formation of a new corporation (a corporation being a legal entity that is effectively recognized as a person under the law).

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Insider trading

Insider trading is the trading of a public company's stock or other securities (such as bonds or stock options) by individuals with access to nonpublic information about the company.

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International Hat Company

International Hat Company, formerly named the International Harvest Hat Company, was a St. Louis, Missouri-based manufacturer of commercial hats and military helmets.

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International Shoe Co. v. Washington

International Shoe Co.

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Isaac S. Taylor

Isaac ("Ike") Stacker Taylor (31 December 1850, Nashville, Tennessee – 28 October 1917, St. Louis, Missouri) was an American architect.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Kentucky

Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States.

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KPS Capital Partners

KPS Capital Partners is an American investment company that manages KPS Special Situation Funds that in turn controls private equity limited funds.

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La-Z-Boy

La-Z-Boy Inc. (pronounced "lazy boy") is an American furniture manufacturer based in Monroe, Michigan, USA, that makes home furniture, including upholstered recliners, sofas, stationary chairs, lift chairs and sleeper sofas.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Maine Cottage

Maine Cottage is a privately held American furniture company specializing in high end coastal cottage style furniture.

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Masco

Masco Corporation is a manufacturer of products for the home improvement and new home construction markets.

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Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city located along the Mississippi River in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is a daily morning broadsheet printed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Mississippi

Mississippi is a state in the Southern United States, with part of its southern border formed by the Gulf of Mexico.

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Missouri

Missouri is a state in the Midwestern United States.

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Modus Furniture

Modus Furniture International (MFI) is a designer, manufacturer, importer and distributor of contemporary and transitional bedroom, dining room, and home entertainment furniture.

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Mount Airy, North Carolina

Mount Airy is a city in Surry County, North Carolina, United States.

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National Labor Relations Board

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is an independent US government agency with responsibilities for enforcing US labor law in relation to collective bargaining and unfair labor practices.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.

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New Deal

The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations enacted in the United States 1933-36, in response to the Great Depression.

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New Hampshire

New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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New York Stock Exchange

The New York Stock Exchange (abbreviated as NYSE, and nicknamed "The Big Board"), is an American stock exchange located at 11 Wall Street, Lower Manhattan, New York City, New York.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Omaha World-Herald

The Omaha World-Herald is the primary newspaper serving the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area.

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Oscar Johnson (businessman)

Oscar Johnson (c. 1863 - July 28, 1916) was an American businessman.

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Piedmont Triad

The Piedmont Triad (or simply the Triad) is a north-central region of the U.S. state of North Carolina that consists of the area within and surrounding the three major cities of Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point.

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Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port"), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico") and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea.

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Ralph and Terry Kovel

Ralph Mallory Kovel (20 August 1920 – 28 August 2008) was an American author of 97 books and guides to antiques, co-authored with his wife, Terry Kovel.

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Ralph Lauren Corporation

Ralph Lauren Corporation is an American corporation.

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Ralph Scozzafava

Ralph Scozzafava is an American business executive who is best known for his position as Chief Executive Officer at Dean Foods, the largest fluid milk company in the United States.

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St. Louis

St.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The St.

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Stalking horse offer

A stalking horse offer, agreement, or bid is an attempt by a bankrupt debtor to test the market for the debtor's assets in advance of an auction of them.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.

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The Daily Guide

The Daily Guide (also called The Waynesvile Daily Guide and formerly the Fort Gateway Daily Guide) is a daily newspaper published in Pulaski County, Missouri, United States.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Thomasville Furniture Industries

Thomasville Furniture Industries is a full-line furniture manufacturer once based in Thomasville, North Carolina, with dedicated galleries in more than 400 retail furniture stores.

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Thomasville, North Carolina

Thomasville is a city in Davidson County, North Carolina, United States.

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Trade union

A trade union or trades union, also called a labour union (Canada) or labor union (US), is an organization of workers who have come together to achieve many common goals; such as protecting the integrity of its trade, improving safety standards, and attaining better wages, benefits (such as vacation, health care, and retirement), and working conditions through the increased bargaining power wielded by the creation of a monopoly of the workers.

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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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Upholstery

Upholstery is the work of providing furniture, especially seats, with padding, springs, webbing, and fabric or leather covers.

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Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Winston-Salem Journal

The Winston-Salem Journal is an American daily newspaper primarily serving the city of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and its county, Forsyth County, North Carolina.

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World Market Center Las Vegas

World Market Center Las Vegas, located at 495 Grand Central Parkway in Las Vegas, Nevada, is a showcase for the home and hospitality contract furnishings industry in downtown Las Vegas.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furniture_Brands_International

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