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Smith & Hawken was founded by Dave Smith and Paul Hawken in 1979, originally as a garden tool supplier. Their first retail store opened in 1982 in Mill Valley, California. Smith left the business in 1988. When Hawken retired in 1993, the company was acquired by a retail conglomerate, the CML Group, which sold it to DDJ Capital Management in ...
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 brought the total number of N.C. jobs cut by Furniture Brands to 8726, 2740 of those in the Triad, since 2000, during which time the company had also closed 39 of 57 U.S. plants. [21] On July 10, 2008, Furniture Brands said it would move its headquarters to Clayton, Missouri. The number of employees at the new site would increase from ...
Hawken co-founded the Smith & Hawken garden supply company in 1979, a retail and catalog business. [15] In 2009, he founded OneSun, an energy company focused on ultra low-cost solar based on green chemistry and biomimicry. [16] From 1994 to 1998, Hawken founded and headed up The Natural Step USA.
The company sells its merchandise through its retail stores, catalog, and online. As of August 2018, the company operated a total of 70 galleries, 18 full-line design galleries, and 3 baby-and-child galleries. The company also has 36 outlet stores in the United States and Canada. [2]
Service Merchandise also had other wholly owned subsidiaries featuring retail stores, such as Zim's Jewelers, HomeOwners Warehouse (later called Mr. HOW Warehouse), [5] The Lingerie Store and The Toy Store. The retailer also provided some of the prizes on Classic Concentration on NBC, and Shop 'til You Drop and Shopping Spree. [citation needed]
Spiegel Spring/Summer 1958 Catalog. Spiegel was an American direct marketing retailer founded in 1865 by Joseph Spiegel.Spiegel published a catalog, like its competitors Sears, Aldens, and Montgomery Ward, which advertised various brands of apparel, accessories, and footwear, as well as housewares, toys, tools, firearms, and electronics.
Haverty Furniture Companies, Inc. ("Havertys") is an American retail furniture company founded in 1885. Beginning with a single store in downtown Atlanta , [ 2 ] Havertys has grown to become one of the top furniture retailers in the south and central United States.