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The Taylor Companies, consisting of The Taylor Chair Company and The Taylor Desk Company, was an American manufacturer of upholstered wood office seating and wood casegoods. Taylor’s primary manufacturing plant and headquarters were located in Bedford, Ohio. It also had a second manufacturing plant located in Lynwood, California.
The wholesale segment includes England, La-Z-Boy, American Drew, Hammary, Kincaid and the company's international wholesale and manufacturing businesses. The company-owned retail segment includes approximately 165 La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries stores out of about 350. Joybird is an e-commerce retailer and manufacturer of upholstered furniture.
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The C. F. Streit Mfg. Co. was a furniture maker located on Kenner St. in Cincinnati, Ohio.Streit manufactured a number of adjustable furniture pieces, most notably the Slumber Chair which had a combination upholstered seat and back element which could be inclined at various angles.
Chicago implement manufacturer Cyrus McCormick (whose company became International Harvester) took Manny to court after he produced nearly 6,000 machines; Manny would prevail on both judgement and an appeal. Along with the production of agricultural machines, Swedish furniture cooperatives established the city as a manufacturing base.
In 1966, the company changed its name to Interco as the result of diversification, and once the company exited the shoe business, adopted the name Furniture Brands International. Some of the brands it owned in the furniture industry included Broyhill, Thomasville, Drexel Heritage, Henredon, Hickory Chair, Pearson, Laneventure, and Maitland-Smith.
A bankruptcy filing on December 12, 2014, showed United Furniture Industries won the bidding for the 475,000-square-foot Lane Furniture plant in Tupelo. [ 10 ] In April 2015, the company began $2.7 million in improvements on a 70,000-square-foot showroom built in the 1990s for Drexel-Heritage, and later used by Henredon, Maitland-Smith and La ...
The company was founded in 2001 by Peter Tielmann, who was part of his wife's family business at Palliser Furniture, later becoming Palliser's president and CEO. [ 8 ] In May 2014, EQ3 opened a new 12,000 sq ft (1,100 m 2 ) showroom in San Francisco 's Design District , the company's second U.S. location after Emeryville, California (now ...