1.   The company, a subsidiary of the Caparo Group, produces high-quality steel wire for fasteners and for the furniture industry.

2.   Analysts believe the furniture industry is ripe for change.

3.   But consumer advocates like Mary Ellen Fise, general counsel of the Consumer Federation of America, said the furniture industry was merely playing for time.

4.   But representatives of the furniture industry oppose the tougher standards for home furniture being advocated by some critics.

5.   Chairs have become the sex symbol of interior design and the box-office hit of the furniture industry.

6.   Delayed delivery is one of the biggest issues dogging the furniture industry and one reason consumers increasingly are turning to online shopping.

7.   Customers in the North Carolina furniture industry, crippled by the recession, shut down.

8.   Despite those announcements, the furniture industry is not moribund.

9.   Executives were quoted saying that the furniture industry was broken and that the Internet would fix it, making living.com a multi-billion company in the process.

10.   He predicts that by gathering national data on consumer preferences he can reshape the furniture industry into something the customer will like better.