Best Home Furnishings Celebrates 50 Years

March 1, 2012  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in Recliners on March 2, 2012

Best Home Furnishings, Ferdinand, Ind., is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.

Located in the hills of southern Indiana, the company has grown into one furniture manufacturer with 2011 sales of more than $210 million.
 
The 50-year-old family owned and operated business remains committed to the one simple concept that they began with: creating the best quality sofas, chairs, recliners and glide rockers at the most affordable prices.

"We've held true to our founding values for 50 years, chief among them being quality and selection," said Brian Lange, president of the family business he grew up in. "It's been important to us that we continue to have high standards and turn out products that have exceptional value for the price. But what€™s really grown our business over the last 15 years has been our quick delivery to our customers. We've been able to slash manufacturing time from four weeks to five days."

Lange said the secret to Best Home Furnishings€™ success has been its commitments to the company's long-standing tenets known as "The Power of Best": quality, speed, selection, value and made in the USA.

Best Home Furnishings produces a diverse selection of sofas, chairs, recliners and glide rockers in eight southern Indiana factories. Founded in 1962 by Clem Lange and his partners in an old cannery building, production was limited to a few chairs and the repairing of old furniture and truck seats to make ends meet.

Beginning as a company that manufactured occasional chairs with 17 employees in the 1960s,
Best has incrementally grown to encompass seven categories: chairs, recliners, reclining sofas, stationary sofas, office chairs, glide rockers and tables. Now owned and led exclusively by the Lange family, the company employs more than 800 people and utilizes more than 1.1 million square feet of advanced manufacturing space.

Over the past 50 years, the company has fine-tuned its processes to contain costs, capitalize on efficiencies and improve products.

To become self-reliant and control costs and quality, the company purchased a wood working dimension plant in Jasper, Indiana, which grades, dries and seasons lumber to Best€™s rigorous standards.

Best has a deep commitment to recycling, saving both dollars and the environment by using its sawdust to fire its wood-drying kilns and selling wood shavings to poultry farmers. Other scrap materials from the manufacturing process are used in packing materials, selling leftover padding for use in archery targets and using recycled plastic materials to develop a proprietary blended fiber technology for cushioned seating and backs.

The company has worked closely with leading suppliers to develop its own glider and motion chair mechanisms in order to provide superior quality, greater comfort and a range of function options.