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The Motley Fool October 14, 2004 Rich Smith	Hooker Takes a Hit Restructuring costs at the furniture maker crimp quarterly profits.
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The Motley Fool February 8, 2005 Rich Smith	Street Spurns Stanley's Sweet Talk Furniture maker's solid quarterly numbers came with some baggage that may have unnerved potential suitors.
The Motley Fool April 3, 2008 Rich Smith	Lifeway Hits a Speed Bump Kefir manufacturer Lifeway says sales are approaching their target of $1 million dollars a week.
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 January 5, 2006 W.D. Crotty	Lifeway Finds Costco Lifeway to test market for its kefir product at Costco. The news sent the stock on a two-day rally. But investors would be wise to watch, rather than own, this promising company.
The Motley Fool April 3, 2007 Rich Duprey	Russ Berrie Not Yet Plush If the toy maker can turn a few more quarters like the fourth while improving its gift segment, it may once again create a mania, but this time for its stock.
The Motley Fool January 12, 2006 Rich Smith	Hooker Furniture Marked Down Bad news and more bad news for the embattled furniture maker. Investors, take note.
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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 October 4, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Crazy for Kefir Lifeway's accelerating growth could be a nourishing beverage for investors.
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 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.
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 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 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 May 23, 2005 Rich Smith	Lifeway on Ice The up-and-coming dairy puts profits growth in the fridge. If only free cash flow and profits growth could again match that performance, Lifeway would rise to become the cream of the dairy industry's crop.
The Motley Fool April 17, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Stanley Survives Though others in this space have suffered a downgrade, it seems investors have enough confidence in the first quarter 2006 earnings news that Stanley Furniture will report tomorrow that they're willing to give the company the benefit of the doubt here.
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The Motley Fool October 11, 2006 Rich Smith	Lifeway Plays It Cool The absolute dominance that Lifeway obtained over the nascent market for kefir in the U.S. when it acquired its No. 2 rival should result in accelerated sales growth for Lifeway and Helios both. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 9, 2004 Rich Smith	Small Cap, Big Potential Kefir, a drinkable yogurt that is a staple on most Russian breakfast tables, is relatively unknown here in the U.S. Lifeway Foods, a Chicago-based micro cap with a 10-year history of successful growth, aims to change that. The company has made all the right moves lately.
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 November 4, 2004 Tim Beyers	Nokia Takes a Smart Shot The mobile phone maker seeks to boost competition for Research In Motion's popular BlackBerry. It may be as clear a signal as you'll get in the wireless industry that investing possiblities will soon reveal themselves.
The Motley Fool July 30, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Furniture Branded a Likely Loser For the first time in its entire reporting history, Furniture Brands is expected to post a loss. Was its second-quarter really that bad? Investors, take note.
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 January 9, 2008 Rich Smith	Lifeway's Wishful Thinking Kefir maker Lifeway Foods reports 20%-plus organic growth in the fourth quarter, continuing a trend of many such quarters, but for how long can this continue?
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 April 1, 2005 W.D. Crotty	Classic Gift Companies Hurting Russ Berrie reports declining sales and earnings.
The Motley Fool April 3, 2007 Rich Smith	Lifeway's Profits Sour The Helios buyout curdled the kefir maker's margins. Management has a lot of work to do if it's to convince investors that its largest acquisition ever was also its best ever.
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 May 24, 2005 Rich Smith	Lifeway Finds Its Target The deal with Target takes the kefir maker one step closer to nationwide recognition of its product. And since recognition is a prerequisite to making a sale, and making a sale a prerequisite to making a profit on that sale, this is good news for shareholders.
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 June 6, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Diary of a Stock Market Loser Follow along with one analyst as he attempts to improve his investing success.
The Motley Fool June 7, 2007 Rich Duprey	Russ Berrie Not So Cuddly The toy and gift maker rejects an unsolicited takeover offer as unworthy of further consideration. Shareholders apparently agreed that the unsolicited offer was too low and bid up the stock.
The Motley Fool July 8, 2004 Rich Smith	Dairy Company Plays Coy Illinois kefir maker Lifeway Foods plans to buy a gourmet cream cheese maker based in Philadelphia.
The Motley Fool June 29, 2011 Eric Dutram	Wednesday's ETF to Watch: PowerShares Global Agriculture Fund Monsanto, one of the largest providers of seeds and agricultural products in the world, gives its quarterly update to investors today, making PowerShares Global Agriculture Fund an ETF to watch.
The Motley Fool July 18, 2006 Seth Jayson	No Surprise at Stanley Sales and earnings are flagging at furniture maker, but there might be a decent value here.
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 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 February 14, 2007 Rich Smith	I Love Lifeway Foods Deploying its cash hoard in a series of smart acquisitions in the dairy sphere, Lifeway has tripled its enterprise value in just three years. Investors, take note.
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 May 16, 2007 Rich Smith	Lifeway's Sweet Success Things are looking up for the kefir maker. When stacked up against last year's negative free cash flow of more than $50,000, the mere $4,200 net cash outflow in the first-quarter 2007 results shows considerable improvement.
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 June 21, 2004 Rich Smith	Hooker Latches on to Profits Hooker Furniture decides that free trade is a good thing after all.
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The Motley Fool February 10, 2009 Rich Smith	Lifeway Drinks Up Another Rival Lifeway Foods, the little Illinois maker of a delicious, yoghurt-like beverage known as kefir, announces yesterday that it's buying its biggest rival in the kefir market, Pennsylvania's privately held Fresh Made Foods.
The Motley Fool December 23, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	The Fool's Look Ahead Monday: The TowerGroup consultancy pegs last year's gift card tally... Tuesday: Hooker has served its investors well over the past year... Wednesday: When a company goes through a stock split, it's a zero-sum game... etc.
The Motley Fool August 16, 2007 Rich Smith	Lifeway's Cool Profits Lifeway Foods reports an excellent quarter, an excellent half, and looking long, an excellent year, thanks in large part to their bottled kefir protein drink, which is flying off the shelves at supermarkets and specialty shops everywhere.