Thomasville Furniture Industries
Thomasville Furniture Industries is a full-line furniture manufacturer based in Thomasville, North Carolina, with dedicated galleries in more than 400 retail furniture stores. Additionally, there are over 160 Thomasville Home Furnishing stores which carry only Thomasville products. The company has been a subsidiary of St. Louis, Missouri-based Furniture Brands International since 1995.
In October 2007, Ed Teplitz was named as CEO of Thomasville, replacing Nancy Webster, who had served in that post since August 2005.
Thomasville Cabinetry is crafted by MasterBrand Cabinets, Inc. a division of Fortune Brands Home and Security (FBHS). MasterBrand Cabinets produces Thomasville branded product for Thomasville Furniture Industries at several North American facilities, and sells the Thomasville Cabinetry brand exclusively through The Home Depot.
The famous Big Chair, an 18-foot reproduction of a Duncan Phyfe design (first erected in 1922 and rebuilt in 1951) still stands in the town square as a symbol of the mutual success of a now famous chair company - and the town that cherishes its nickname, "Chair City".
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History [edit]
Thomasville Furniture began as Thomasville Chair Company.[1]
In 1968, Thomasville Furniture became part of Armstrong World Industries, which sold the company to Interco (now Furniture Brands International) in November 1995.[1]
Starting with the Spring 2011 High Point Furniture Market, Thomasville Furniture Industries moved its showroom space from Thomasville, where they had been since the 1950s, to the International Home Furnishings Center.[2]
References [edit]
- ^ a b "Thomasville sale to Interco complete". Retrieved 2011-12-05.
- ^ "Thomasville, Drexel to move showrooms," Greensboro News & Record, February 27, 2011.
External links [edit]
- Thomasville Furniture
- Thomasville Kitchen Cabinets
- Thomasville Lighting
- Thomasville Hardwood Flooring
- Furniture Brands International, Inc.
