Article: NAME DROPPING; FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS CONTINUE TO USE BRANDS, BUT NOW AT A LESS EXCESSIVE RATE.

HIGH POINT, N.C.-The decade-long licensing frenzy may be over in furniture, but profitable opportunities remain for thoughtful unions of brands and merchandise.

For every licensing hit -- Ernest Hemingway from Thomasville or Lexington's Bob Timberlake -- there have been plenty of duds.

The gold rush may be over, but so are the days of rushing headlong to market with a hastily assembled and poorly supported program, said Bob Skotnicki, chief executive officer of Global Licensing in Hickory, N.C.

"The big, low-hanging fruit is gone," Skotnicki said. "Now [companies] are making more educated evaluations about what works. We're seeing a leveling ...

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