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The Motley Fool February 2, 2004 Rich Smith	Hooker Skewers Chinese Partners Hooker Furniture accuses its own Chinese partners of "dumping" product on the U.S. market.
The Motley Fool February 19, 2004 Rich Smith	Hooker's Free Trade U-Turn The furniture maker outsources a lot of its furniture production to China, then signed on to an American funiture manufacturers complaint about China selling bedroom furniture too cheaply in the US. Chine responds by threatening slow production of other goods.
The Motley Fool February 9, 2004 Rex Moore	One Stock to Get Hooked On Hooker Furniture is a family-run operation that was founded back in 1924, and it has all the things you like to see in a business, including a modest valuation.
The Motley Fool July 1, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	One for the Couch Potato Last night, Hooker Furniture announced its 10th consecutive quarter of year-over-year sales growth as margins widened to produce even stronger earnings.
The Motley Fool February 11, 2004 Matt Logan	La-Z-Boy's Sales Recline Remain seated: These earnings are nothing to get up for.
The Motley Fool January 12, 2004 Seth Jayson	Mixed Bag for Bassett With its restructuring mostly over, Bassett Furniture Industries needs to focus on execution now.
The Motley Fool June 28, 2004 Mike Cianciolo	Bassett Builds Strong Q2 The furniture manufacturer posts solid second-quarter results. The strategy of selling affordable furniture that is ready for delivery within 30 days continues to generate the most significant growth for Bassett.
The Motley Fool June 30, 2005 Nathan Parmelee	Another Dent at Hooker Furniture Inventory levels and sliding sales of domestically produced furniture continue to plague the company. Should prices dip back toward the lows of a couple months ago, the shares would offer a very attractive opportunity to investors who can afford to be patient.
The Motley Fool June 29, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Bassett Is No Dog Despite being in the furniture business, Bassett is holding its own and paying a decent dividend.
The Motley Fool September 14, 2006 Rich Duprey	A Threadbare Furniture Market Investors, the retail furniture industry is apparently having the stuffing beat out of it these days. A convergence of trends is making the industry look a little ragged.
The Motley Fool April 3, 2008 Rich Smith	Hooker Goes on a Diet This furniture retailer is a lean, mean cash flow machine.
The Motley Fool September 30, 2005 Rich Smith	Bassett Tracks Hooker Bassett Furniture follows in Hooker Furniture's consolidating footsteps. The company received a pat on the back for its performance, with its stock having risen more than 5% for the day yesterday.
The Motley Fool August 23, 2004 Rich Smith	Outsourcing Pays Off at Home If a foreign company sells goods to you below its cost to manufacture, but no one loses a job, does anyone care? Here's a look at a Chinese dumping case that no one is talking about because it hurts no one and benefits everyone.
The Motley Fool June 24, 2004 Nathan Parmelee	La-Z-Boy's Clever Ploy Things may look bleak, but La-Z-Boy is showing signs that it will right the ship.
The Motley Fool March 31, 2005 Rich Duprey	Hooker Furniture Gets Scratched Furniture maker misses estimates on weak domestic sales and flat future. But there may yet be opportunities to get Hooker at even better prices.
The Motley Fool March 27, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Bassett Bays Bassett Furniture is set to report its first-quarter 2007 earnings results. Investors, here is what you can expect to find.
The Motley Fool August 20, 2004 Rich Smith	Hooker Furniture Puts Investors First Closing a factory is never popular, but it's the right thing to do. Hooker's continued devotion to serving its owners' interests preserves the possibility that this company could double yet again.
The Motley Fool April 26, 2005 Nathan Parmelee	Stanley's Furniture Piles Up Inventory levels at Stanley Furniture are still a concern. It's not a pretty result for this quarter, but Stanley is not dearly priced.
The Motley Fool January 19, 2005 Seth Jayson	Hooker Furniture Getting Bloated? Great results bode well for investors, but keep an eye on inventories.
The Motley Fool January 20, 2004 Alyce Lomax	Ethan Allen Sees Green Will new homeowners get home-furnishing-happy? Ethan Allen hopes so.
The Motley Fool February 17, 2005 Rich Smith	The Furniture's Piling Up What's with the inventories at furniture makers? Five of the major furniture makers are seeing inventory growth outstripping sales growth by wide margins. Investors need to keep an eye on this trend.
The Motley Fool April 4, 2007 Rich Smith	Bassett Bays Investors largely seem to have looked at the 15% year-over-year decline in sales, noticed that it was smaller than the 16% to 18% that Bassett management had predicted one month ago, and decided the shares deserved to be bid up a bit.
The Motley Fool May 26, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Lazy La-Z-Boy The recliner specialist reclines after a soft close to its fiscal year.
BusinessWeek June 21, 2004 Engardio & Roberts	Wielding A Heavy Weapon Against China The battle lines have been drawn. Unless Washington and Beijing can find a reasonable middle ground for defining a market economy, it will be open season on Chinese manufacturers. And boom times for U.S. trade attorneys.
The Motley Fool September 29, 2006 Ryan Fuhrmann	What's Hounding Bassett? The furniture company is retooling to take advantage of lower-cost imports, but will that be enough to kick-start growth? Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool June 11, 2007 Rich Smith	Hooker Punished Optimism over the firm's new business model -- importing furniture made by others -- and the high-margin sales it offered gave way to disappointment when those margins failed to make an appearance in the first quarter of a new and improved fiscal 2008. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool November 10, 2004 Alyce Lomax	A La-Z-Boy Letdown The company lowered third-quarter guidance down to $0.11 to $0.14 per share; the consensus estimate was previously $0.25 per share. Given the variables, it's no wonder investors soured on the stock today.
The Motley Fool July 13, 2004 Seth Jayson	Stanley Furniture Gets Comfy Stanley Furniture's stock jumps on strong revenue and earnings, and it may keep climbing.
The Motley Fool May 31, 2005 Seth Jayson	Hooker Loses Respect on Street The furniture maker's shares have been punished in the wake of a sales slowdown. Is the pain over?
The Motley Fool May 13, 2005 Rich Smith	Hooker's Sales U-Turn The furniture maker predicts declining sales next quarter. Hooker's stock currently trades for $15 a stub, making for the easiest of P/E ratio calculations: Hooker trades at a P/E of 10.
The Motley Fool April 3, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	4 Stocks That Took a Hike Companies with growing yields can make you rich in more ways than the obvious. Steelcase... Hooker Furniture... Raytheon... Todd Shipyards...
The Motley Fool September 11, 2008 Rich Smith	What Language Is Hooker Speaking? A lot of the things furniture manufacturer Hooker said in their second quarterly report don't mean what Hooker seems to think they mean.
The Motley Fool August 16, 2007 Rich Smith	La-Z-Boy Gets a Whippin' La-Z-Boys sales, like its trademark chairs, are soft. Latest quarterly reports show a 13% decline in sales, which management blames on the continuing challenging furniture environment.
The Motley Fool September 30, 2005 Rich Smith	Furniture Maker in the Hot Seat Hooker Furniture has some bright spots, but it's not out of the woods yet. The furniture maker missed earning estimates again and suffered a year-over-year quarterly earnings decline.
The Motley Fool September 7, 2007 Lawrence A. Rothman	Hooker Furniture Hooks a Profit Profits got a boost at Hooker Furniture, despite sluggish sales from the challenging environment, due to improved margins and lower expenses.
The Motley Fool August 11, 2010 David Meier	Hooker Furniture: Deflation Fighter Compared to competitors La-Z-Boy and Furniture Brands, Hooker Furniture is better prepared to handle a deflationary environment.
The Motley Fool July 19, 2005 Rich Smith	Easy Chairs, Hard Lessons Hooker loses to Stanley as a small-cap stock recommendation.
The Motley Fool September 14, 2007 Rich Smith	Steelcase Plays Marco Polo Steelcase buys Chinese furniture maker Ultra Group Company Limited, capturing a revenue stream three times as large as the price paid, and gaining a foothold in the lucrative Asian market.
The Motley Fool June 6, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: New & Improved Hooker The furniture company is set to report its first-quarter 2008 earnings. Investors, here is what you can expect to find.
The Motley Fool February 20, 2007 Rich Smith	Earnings Twofer: Hooker & La-Z-Boy Here is a look at the earnings reports from these two furniture companies to see whether the whole of their news makes up more than the sum of its parts. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool September 29, 2006 Ryan Fuhrmann	Furniture Struggles With Its Brands Furniture Brands may be just like any other struggling furniture firm these days. Discerning the winners from the losers almost always comes down to certain investing basics, such as following the cash flow.
The Motley Fool August 10, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	La-Z-Boy's Hazy Ploy The recliner specialist's stock is trading for half of what it peaked at two years ago.
The Motley Fool July 28, 2005 Rich Smith	Strike Three for Hooker The furniture manufacturer announced that that it will close its third plant in as many years. Investors are less than eager to stick around to see how its latest plan plays out.
The Motley Fool March 23, 2005 Alyce Lomax	Bombay Heads South Investors get more of the same from Bombay.
The Motley Fool September 18, 2006 Rich Smith	Stanley Sneezes After Stanley Furniture announced declining sales, shares opened 9% lower before paring their losses to just 4%. Other furniture stocks followed.
The Motley Fool December 13, 2006 Rich Smith	Furniture Gone Fishin' Broyhill's not the only firm to announce production cutbacks; what's more, it's not even the latest. That title belongs (temporarily, until the next shoe drops) to: Stanley Furniture, which announced last evening that it, too, needs to downsize.
The Motley Fool August 18, 2006 Rich Smith	Unstuffing La-Z-Boy The furniture make disappointed investors this week. In response, shareholders dropped the stock 4% after the earnings report. Was it an over-reaction?
The Motley Fool June 13, 2006 Rich Smith	Hooker Furniture Suffers Another Hit Its Roanoke closing will leave Hooker with exactly one wood furniture plant remaining in the United States. Investors should expect to see associated costs of closing the plant slash $0.23 per share from third-quarter earnings, and another $0.02 or $0.03 from the fourth quarter.
The Motley Fool October 14, 2004 Rich Smith	Hooker Takes a Hit Restructuring costs at the furniture maker crimp quarterly profits.
The Motley Fool September 4, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Hooker Back on the Street In advance of Q2 fiscal 2008 earnings reports, analysts think that Hooker Furniture may be headed in the right direction.