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Certification of Robert H. Spilman, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

Certification of Barry C. Safrit, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

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BASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C., 20549

FORM 10-K/A

(Amendment No. 1)

x	ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended November 27, 2004

¨	TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from to

Commission File No. 0-209

BASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

VIRGINIA

54-0135270

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation or organization)

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

3525 FAIRYSTONE PARK HIGHWAY

BASSETT, VIRGINIA

24055

(Address of principal executive offices)

(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code 276/629-6000

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:



Title of each class:		Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock ($5.00 par value)		NASDAQ

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months, and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for at least the past 90 days. x Yes ¨ No

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K. x

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an accelerated filer (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act). x Yes ¨ No

The aggregate market value of the voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates of the registrant as of May 29, 2004 was $222,421,320.

The number of shares of the Registrant’s common stock outstanding on January 28, 2005 was 11,750,290.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Amendment No. 1 on Form 10-K/A to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended November 27, 2004 (the “Original Filing”), which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 28, 2005, is being filed to (1) amend Item 9A and (2) to correct a typographical error in the Original Filing.

At the time of the Original Filing, the Company elected to utilize the 45 day extension offered to certain registrants by the Securities and Exchange Commission to delay the filing of management’s report on internal control over financial reporting as required by section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and for the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm to attest to this report. Management’s report on internal controls over financial reporting and the related attestation report of the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm are included in this Amendment No. 1 in Item 9A.

Exhibit 23B “Consent of Independent Auditors” of the Original Filing noted “the three years ended October 31, 2001” and should have noted “the three years ended October 31, 2004”. This was a typographical error occurring during the edgarizing process. A corrected consent has been included as exhibit 23B.

As a result of this amendment, an additional Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm dated March 24, 2005 to cover the report related to our internal control over financial reporting dated March 23, 2005 is being filed.

Except for the matters disclosed in Item 9A and for new Exhibit 23C, this Form 10-K/A continues to speak as of the date of the Original Filing and the Company has not updated the disclosure contained therein to reflect events that have occurred since the date of the Original Filing.

ITEM 9.

CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE

None.

ITEM 9A.

CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

Evaluation of our Disclosure Controls.

As of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K, our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, have evaluated the effectiveness of our “disclosure controls and procedures” (“Disclosure Controls”). Disclosure Controls, as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), are procedures that are designed with the objective of ensuring that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed under the Exchange Act, such as this Annual Report, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms. Disclosure Controls are also designed with the objective of ensuring that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including the CEO and CFO, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

Our management, including the CEO and CFO, does not expect that our Disclosure Controls will prevent all error and all fraud. A control system, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are met. Further, the design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within the company have been detected. These inherent limitations include the realities that judgments in decision-making can be faulty, and that breakdowns can occur because of simple error or mistake. The design of any system of controls also is based

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in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions.

Based upon their controls evaluation, our CEO and CFO have concluded that our Disclosure Controls are effective at a reasonable assurance level.

Evaluation of internal control over financial reporting

Management’s Report of Internal Control over Financial Reporting

We are responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting in accordance with Exchange Act Rule 13a-15. With the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, our management conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of November 27, 2004 based on the criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Based on this evaluation, management concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of November 27, 2004, based on those criteria.

A control system, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are met. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within the Company have been detected.

Our assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of November 27, 2004, has been audited by Ernst & Young LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their report which is included below.

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Board of Directors and Stockholders

Bassett Furniture Industries, Incorporated

We have audited management’s assessment, included in the accompanying Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting, that Bassett Furniture Industries, Incorporated and subsidiaries maintained effective internal control over financial reporting as of November 27, 2004, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (the COSO criteria). Bassett Furniture Industries, Incorporated’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on management’s assessment and an opinion on the effectiveness of the company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Overnight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, evaluating management’s assessment, testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control, and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

In our opinion, management’s assessment that Bassett Furniture Industries, Incorporated maintained effective internal control over financial reporting as of November 27, 2004, is fairly stated, in all material respects, based on the COSO criteria. Also, in our opinion, Bassett Furniture Industries, Incorporated maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of November 27, 2004, based on the COSO criteria.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the consolidated balance sheets of Bassett Furniture Industries, Incorporated as of November 27, 2004 and November 29, 2003, and the related consolidated statements of income, stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended November 27, 2004 and our report dated January 25, 2005 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.

/s/ Ernst & Young LLP

Greensboro, North Carolina

March 23, 2005

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the fourth quarter that have materially affected, or are reasonable likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

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PART IV

ITEM 15.

EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES


(a)	(3	)	Listing of Exhibits

			3A.	Articles of Incorporation as amended are incorporated herein by reference to Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended February 28, 1994.

			3B.	Amendment to By-laws including By-laws as amended to date is incorporated herein by reference to Form 8-K filed on December 21, 2004.

			4A.	Amended and Restated Credit Agreement with a Bank Group dated October 29, 2004, is incorporated herein by reference to Form 8-K filed on November 11, 2004.

			**10A.	Bassett 1993 Long Term Incentive Stock Option Plan is incorporated herein by reference to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 (no.33-52405) filed on February 25, 1994.

			**10B.	Bassett Executive Deferred Compensation Plan is incorporated herein by reference to Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended November 30, 1997.

			**10C.	Bassett Supplemental Retirement Income Plan is incorporated herein by reference to Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended November 30, 1997.

			**10D.	Bassett 1993 Stock Plan for Non-Employee Directors as amended is incorporated herein by reference to Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended November 25, 2000.

			**10E.	Bassett 1997 Employee Stock Plan is incorporated herein by reference to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 (no. 333-60327) filed on July 31, 1998.

			21.	List of subsidiaries of the Registrant

			23A.	Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

			*23B.	Consent of Independent Auditors

			*23C.	Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

			31A.	Certification of Robert H. Spilman, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer, pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

			31B.	Certification of Barry C. Safrit, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

			*31C.	Certification of Robert H. Spilman, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer, pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

			*31D.	Certification of Barry C. Safrit, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

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*	These exhibits are filed with this Amendment No. 1 on Form 10-K/A.

**	Management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement of the Company.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.


BASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED (Registrant)

By:	/s/ Robert H. Spilman, Jr.	Date: March 24, 2005
	Robert H. Spilman, Jr.
	President and Chief Executive Officer, Director

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.




By:	/s/ Paul Fulton	Date: March 24, 2005
	Paul Fulton
	Chairman of the Board of Directors


By:	/s/ Peter W. Brown	Date: March 24, 2005
	Peter W. Brown
	Director



By:	/s/ Howard H. Haworth	Date: March 24, 2005
	Howard H. Haworth
	Director


By:	/s/ George W. Henderson, III	Date: March 24, 2005
	George W. Henderson, III
	Director



By:	/s/ Dale C. Pond	Date: March 24, 2005
	Dale C. Pond
	Director


By:	/s/ David A. Stonecipher	Date: March 24, 2005
	David A. Stonecipher
	Director


By:	/s/ William C. Wampler, Jr.	Date: March 24, 2005
	William C. Wampler, Jr.
	Director



By:	/s/ William C. Warden, Jr.	Date: March 24, 2005
	William C. Warden, Jr.
	Director


By:	/s/ Barry C. Safrit	Date: March 24, 2005
	Barry C. Safrit
	Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

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INDEX TO EXHIBITS


Exhibit No.
23B		Consent of Independent Auditors

23C		Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

31C		Certification of Robert H. Spilman, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer, pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

31D		Certification of Barry C. Safrit, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

Consent of Dixon Hughes

EXHIBIT 23B

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITORS

Board of Directors

Bassett Furniture Industries, Incorporated

Bassett, Virginia

We consent to incorporation by reference in the Registration Statements (Nos. 33-52405, 33-52407, 333-60327 and 333-43188) on Form S-8 of Bassett Furniture Industries, Incorporated and subsidiaries of our report dated November 24, 2004, relating to the balance sheets of International Home Furnishings Center, Inc. as of October 31, 2004 and 2003, and the related statements of income, stockholders’ equity (deficit) and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended October 31, 2004, which report is incorporated by reference in the November 27, 2004 annual report on Form 10-K of Bassett Furniture Industries, Incorporated and subsidiaries.

/s/ Dixon Hughes PLLC

High Point, North Carolina

January 27, 2005

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITORS

EXHIBIT 23C

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

We consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statements (Form S-8 No. 33-52405, Form S-8 No. 33-52407, Form S-8 No. 333-60327, and Form S-8 No. 333-43188) of our report dated March 23, 2005, with respect to Bassett Furniture Industries, Incorporated management’s assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting of Bassett Furniture Industries, Incorporated, included in this Form 10-K/A.

/s/ Ernst & Young LLP

Greensboro, North Carolina

March 23, 2005

CEO CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT

Exhibit 31C

CERTIFICATIONS

I, Robert H. Spilman, Jr., certify that:

1.	I have reviewed this Amendment No. 1 on Form 10-K/A to the annual report on Form 10-K of Bassett Furniture Industries, Incorporated;

2.	Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15(d)-15(f)) for the registrant and have:

Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

4.	The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

March 24, 2005

/s/ Robert H. Spilman, Jr.

Robert H. Spilman, Jr.

President and Chief Executive Officer

CFO CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT

Exhibit 31D

CERTIFICATIONS

I, Barry C. Safrit, certify that:

1.	I have reviewed this Amendment No. 1 on Form 10-K/A to the annual report on Form 10-K of Bassett Furniture Industries, Incorporated;

2.	Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

4.	The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

March 24, 2005

/s/ Barry C. Safrit

Barry C. Safrit

Vice President, Chief Financial Officer