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• Serta's Counting Sheep return, with a taste for larceny

  HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. — The Serta Counting Sheep are back in Serta's new "Mattress Heist" campaign, launching this week and running through Labor Day.
   

• Art Van Furniture to open store in Toledo, Ohio, next year

  WARREN, Mich. — Art Van Furniture has purchased a former theater in Toledo, Ohio, for its first expansion of the Art Van brand outside its home state of Michigan.
   

• Art Van Furniture breaks ground on new Scott Shuptrine showroom

  WARREN, Mich. — Art Van Furniture is building a 10,000-square-foot addition to its Royal Oak, Mich., showroom for a flagship Scott Shuptrine Interiors design center.
   

• Chromcraft Revington sales up 11% on strength of commercial seating shipments

  WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Chromcraft Revington's first-quarter sales were up 11.3% from the same period a year earlier, mainly because of stronger shipments of commercial seating products, the company said.
   

• Pride files patent infringement lawsuit against Woodard

  HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Pride Family Brands, a designer and manufacturer of casual furniture, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Woodard Furniture, Carl's Patio, Inc., Carl's Patio West, Inc. and Scott Coogan, vice president of design at Woodard Furniture.
   

• U.S. mattress sales rose 0.2% in units, 7.7% in dollars last year

  ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The U.S. bedding industry recorded just a 0.2% unit sales gain last year but saw a 7.7% jump in the value of wholesale bedding shipments, the International Sleep Products Assn. reported.
   

• Furniture Today's Top Furniture Sources for U.S. Market

  Estimated furniture shipments for the 20 largest furniture sources to the U.S. market totaled $10.0 billion in 2011, an increase of 4.7% from 2010 shipments of $9.6 billion for the same group.
   

• Pinnacle Awards nominations will be accepted through June 15

  NEW LONDON, N.C. — Nominations for the Pinnacle Awards are still due June 1, but late entries will be accepted through June 15 with a $25 per late entry fee, according to the American Society of Furniture Designers.
   

• Expenses send Leon's Furniture profit down 16.4%

  TORONTO — Despite a healthy 4.7% uptick in sales, Leon's Furniture reported a 16.4% drop in first-quarter earnings, which it attributed to increased marketing expenses and the cost of opening four stores in late 2011.
   

• Online content provider WebCollage expands into furniture

  NEW YORK — Retail technology vendor WebCollage, which has worked with consumer electronics and technology manufacturers, said it is broadening into furniture in an agreement with ready-to-assemble specialist Bush Inds.
   
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