LAS VEGAS - Developers of a furniture industry show place wrapped up their third meeting in two years Friday and talked of adding millions more square feet of space and casting a wider global net for buyers and sellers. 

Across the country, the new head of a respected old furniture show in North Carolina said he was less concerned about expansion at the World Market Center in Las Vegas than about putting people through the turnstiles of his fall show in October. 

“Certainly Las Vegas has sharpened the focus for High Point,” said Brian Casey, president since April of the International Home Furnishings Market Authority in High Point, N.C. “That’s a good thing. There’s room in this industry for both to exist.”