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Hank's & More Fine Furniture Opens New Store
December 7,
2010 by in UnCategorized 
By Home Furnishings Business in Furniture Retailing on December 8, 2010
Little Rock, Ark.-based
Hank's & More Fine Furniture has opened a new 92,000-square-foot store in Rogers, Ark.
Twenty-five percent of the showroom is dedicated to manufacturers' galleries.
The timing was right to build a store large enough to have furniture for everyone, for any budget, said Hank Browne, chairman and owner.
The retailer opened a 75,000-square-foot store in West Little Rock, Ark., two years ago, and Browne said public reception was "tremendous."
"Our customers appreciate going to one place to find hundreds of brands and price selections," he said. "Now, with 92,000 square feet, we have filled this store with even more of the most beautiful furniture I have ever seen under one roof.
The $11 million project was completed in nine months. The retailer is closing two storeson in adjacent Bentonville, Ark., and another in Fayetteville, Ark.and will bring employees from those stores to the new location. The store has also hired 20 new employees.
I will have managed stores for Hank's Fine Furniture for 25 years in February, and I have never been happier with the quality of our new hires," said Stuart Skiles, manager of the new Hank's & More. "They all have the 'whatever it takes' attitude which is the mission statement of our company. We work together as a team and thats the key to Hank's success for 35 years.
Hank's, a 35-year-old retailer, operates 15 stores in five states.
This is the most exciting project yet; to have the ability to choose the best product from all of our manufactures and to showcase the furniture in beautiful open room settings is wonderful," said Mary Browne, president of Hank's, and primary architect of the stores layout, displays and merchandise. "We have some exclusive furniture galleries that folks in Arkansas have never seen before. Our vendors have worked to get us new product we only saw at the
October (High Point) market a few weeks ago to our floor for this grand opening.