Furniture Industry

by Patricia Phillips Marshall, 2006
Additional research provided by Michael H. Lewis

Part i: Overview; Part ii: Colonial era to the Civil War; Part iii: Industrial age; Part iv: Modern furniture industry; Part v: Companies; Part vi: References and resources

Part v: North Carolina's Largest-Grossing Furniture Companies (2004)

Company	Location	Total Sales (millions)	No. of Employees
Universal Furniture, Ltd.	High Point	$670	12,000
Klaussner Corporation	Asheboro	$621.5	6,064
Thomasville Furniture Industries	Thomasville	$362.8	6,500
Broyhill Furniture Industries, Inc.	Lenoir	$334.9	6,000
Lexington Furniture Industries	Lenoir	$167.3	3,000
Bernhardt Industries, Inc.	Lexington	$122.7	2,200
cv Industries, Inc.	Lenoir	$117.1	2,100
Sherrill Furniture Company	Hickory	$105.1	1,650
Carolina Mills, Inc.	Hickory	$96.8	1,500
Henredon Furniture Industries	Maiden	$94.7	1,700
Drexel Heritage Furniture Industries	Morganton	$89.2	1,600
Kincaid Furniture Company, Inc.	Hudson	$79.5	1,250
Fairfield Chair Company	Lenoir	$75	700
Cochrane Furniture Company	Lincolnton	$75	600
Clayton Marcus Company, Inc.	Hickory	$49.1	775

 

References and additional resources

Keep reading > Part vi: References and resources

Image Credit

Electric lamp, 1973. Broyhill Furniture Industries, Inc. Accession no. H.1982.119. From the North Carolina Museum of History, Raleigh, N.C.