| Droog Design Comes to SoHo Droog, the iconoclastic Dutch design collective, is opening a store in New York in two weeks. nytimes.com |
Budget Cuts Spell Trouble For School Suppliers School-products suppliers may bring home a disappointing report card this school year, as severe cuts to education budgets by many U.S. states and uncertainty about the distribution of federal stimulus funds could hurt results. topix.com |
United Rentals sales drop but loss narrows United Rentals Inc. said Wednesday that fourth-quarter sales tumbled 30 percent, but the company narrowed its loss from a year earlier, when it wrote down the value of its assets. topix.com |
New Design Showroom in SoHo An academic turned interior designer has opened a sleek showroom. nytimes.com |
Lennar And Builders Lag The Market Also among the laggards are home furnishings and mprovement stocks. In trading Wednesday, home furnishings and improvement stocks were relative laggards, down on the day by about 0.7%. Helping drag down the group were shares of Furniture Brands International , down about 7.2% and shares of Ethan Allen Interiors down about 7% on the day. topix.com |