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Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc. is an American home furnishings manufacturer and retailer, [2] headquartered in Arcadia, Wisconsin. The company is owned by father and son team Ron and Todd Wanek. Ashley Furniture manufactures and distributes home furniture products throughout the world. [1]
The company name is a portmanteau of the Danish city "Aarhus," and the German word for "house." [2] [3] The Reeds expanded Arhaus that same year, converting four Workbench franchise stores in the Cleveland and Akron, Ohio area into Arhaus storefronts. [4] In 2013, the company formerly known as Homeworks, Inc. changed its name to Arhaus, LLC.
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.
The company founder Kamprad was dyslexic, and found that naming the furniture with proper names and words, rather than a long product code, made the products easier to identify and remember. [95] Products are usually named after locations in Scandinavian countries, using names of places in Sweden for sofas and coffee tables, Denmark for ...
The parent company of Ashley, [10] Ashley Furniture Industries, headquartered in Arcadia, Wisconsin, is the world's largest home furniture manufacturer. Owned by father and son team, Ron and Todd R. Wanek, the company manufactures and distributes home furnishings throughout the globe. The company employs more than 18,000.
Rooms To Go (stylized as ROOMS TO GO ) is an American furniture store chain. The company was founded in September 1990 [2] by Jeffrey Seaman and his father Morty Seaman after they sold Seaman's Furniture. [3] According to Furniture Today, as of 2015 Rooms To Go is the third largest furniture retailer in the US. [4]