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Art Van Furniture Michigan's #1 furniture seller offers medium-priced home furniture and bedding in some 35 Michigan stores. The chain has undergone a renovation, adding more upscale furniture (it sells Sealy, Simmons, and Broyhill brands) and perks such as children's play areas. The company is known for its aggressive sales and service. (Employees have been known to greet patrons carside with umbrellas on rainy days.) Chairman Art Van Elslander, who has 10 children (some active in the business), founded the firm with an East Detroit store in 1959. The company celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2009.

Through its websites (Art.com and AllPosters.com), Art.com sells art prints, posters, framed works, and other specialty items. Customers can browse its inventory of more than 700,000 items, ranging from inexpensive wall posters and signed limited-edition works to wall murals and tapestries, as well as order custom framing and mounting services. More than 10 million customers in some 120 countries worldwide have decorated their walls via the company's websites. Formerly named Allwall Technologies, Art.com was founded in 1995 and merged with rival AllPosters.com in 2005.

Artfulhome.com, an online and catalog retailer of fine art and gifts, is an offshoot of The Guild, an art publishing company founded in 1985 that represents more than 1,200 North American artists. The Web site and catalog, which feature fine art prints, paintings, photography, and sculpture, were launched in 1999. In addition Artfulhome.com sells nontraditional works of art (made of glass, fiber, metal, and wood), ceramics, home furnishings and lighting, tableware, jewelry, and books. Toni Sikes, a Madison entrepreneur, launched the company from a Wisconsin warehouse. The firm changed the name of its Web site from Guild.com to Artfulhome.com in 2008.

Bellacor retails more than 500,000 lighting products and home furnishings from 700 manufacturers through its Web site and Amazon.com's Home & Garden store. The Web site also offers online customers personal shopping, project portfolio, and price quote services. The company sells lighting fixtures such as chandeliers and sconces, and home accessories from bathroom fixtures to mailboxes. Professional builders and remodelers can use the company's Virtual Lighting Showroom, which allows them to customize an online store front under their brand name. The company was a catalog retailer before beginning to sell its wares online in 2000.

The company sells mattresses, bed bases, and other bedroom furnishings through a number of retail chains in Europe. The company operates some 960 stores located across Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland. Beter Bed's retail brands include Matrazen Concord, Beter Bed, DBC, El Gigante del Colchón, and Slaapgenoten/Dormaël Slaapkamers. Each chain maintains its own unique retail concept, from discount furnishings to high-end bedroom accoutrements. The company acquired Spanish retailer El Gigante Del Colchón in 2005.

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