Furniture/Today's exclusive Top 100 listing ranks furniture stores by 2010 sales of furniture, bedding and decorative accessories, including fabric and furniture protection and warranties. To qualify, a store must specialize in home furnishings. The mix may include electronics, appliances and other home furnishings, but furniture, bedding and accessories must account for 25% or more of total sales and at least 25% of those sales must come from the stores. Retailers with a broad merchandise mix, such as department stores, mass merchants and warehouse clubs that operate separate home furnishings stores are eligible for listing with the sales from the free-standing home stores only. Macy’s is on the list based on the sales from its dedicated furniture stores, as well as JCPenney. Groups of stores with common ownership that operate under separate names qualify for the list. Examples are Berkshire Hathaway, which operates Nebraska Furniture Mart, Star Furniture, R.C. Willey, Jordan's and Homemakers and American Signature, which operates Value City Furniture and American Signature Furniture. All sales figures are Furniture/Today estimates, unless these figures are reported specifically to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Estimates are based on information collected from surveys sent to retailers and from a variety of other sources, including company filings with the SEC, discussions with industry analysts and suppliers, and published and unpublished reports, including newspaper articles in various retail trading areas. The detailed analysis includes: Sales for the Top 100 were up 5.7% from 2009 to 2010 The Top 100 Stores sold through 8,536 stores in 2010 Ashley Furniture HomeStores is still the No. 1 furniture store, with IKEA at No. 2 and Rooms To Go at No. 3 *20 pages* Please Note: This report is available for immediate electronic download in PDF format. When you order this report, you will come to an order confirmation page which will show your report, with a blue "Download" button. |
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