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Lambeth Furniture began in 1901 and was sold to Knox Furniture in 1928 and Thomasville Chair in 1932. [1] B.F. Huntley Furniture began in 1906 on Patterson Avenue in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and grew into the largest bedroom and dining room furniture manufacturer in the country. Its Winston-Salem plant burned in 1956, though a two-story ...
HSM is an American company globally manufacturing materials and components for transportation, furniture, bedding and other markets. It is a privately held company that is family-owned, based in Hickory, North Carolina, where it was originally founded in 1944 by Parks Underdown as the "Hickory Springs Manufacturing Company."
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 ...
This was the first time a government contract of this type had been awarded to a 'southern factory'. A total of 58 boxcars was whipped from North Carolina to the Panama Canal. Just one year after being awarded the Panama contracts, in 1907, White Furniture Company was awarded "Best manufacturer of American furniture" at the Jamestown Exhibition.
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Late in 2001, Masco announced Furniture Brands International would buy Henredon, Drexel Heritage and Maitland-Smith for $275 million, in a deal expected to return Furniture Brands to the number one U.S. furniture manufacturer, a title lost to La-Z-Boy when that company bought LADD in 2000. [13]
The company was founded as a housewares manufacturer in 1932 by Theodore Baumritter and his brother-in-law Nathan S. Ancell. They bought a bankrupt furniture factory in Beecher Falls, Vermont in 1936 and adopted the name "Ethan Allen" for its early-American furniture introduced in 1939, after the Vermont Revolutionary War leader Ethan Allen.