Badcock & More Concept Adds Three Locations

July 20, 2006  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in Furniture Retailing on July 2006 Three more Badcock stores in North Florida have converted to the Badcock & more concept, which offers consumers a brighter, more spacious shopping environment than the retail network’s older format.

Those location bring the total number of stores operating under Badcock & more to 210.

The store in Live Oak, owned by Gary Olive, a second-generation Badcock retailer, is a 26,609-square-foot location.

In Tallahassee, another second-generation dealer, Lela Brown, who owns the store with her two brothers, has converted their 11,549-square-foot store to a Badcock & more location.

Owners Pete Fortner and his wife, Edith Fortner, Badcock dealers for 28 years, also have switched to the new format at their store in Perry. At 28,130 square feet, the Perry Badcock & more location is one of the largest Badcock stores to date.

Mulberry, Fla.-based W.S. Badcock Corp., founded in 1904, operates more than 80 percent of its 300-plus locations across the Southeastern United States through a dealer-owned business model. In addition to furniture and bedding, the product offering includes appliances, electronics, accessories and floor coverings.