Texas Ashley Dealers Buy Stores in Abilene and Wichita Falls

November 5, 2007  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in Furniture Retailing on November 2007 The owners of the Ashley Furniture HomeStore in San Angelo, Texas, closed a deal Thursday to acquire two more Ashley stores located in Abilene and Wichita Falls, Texas, according to a Monday report in the Times Record News of Wichita Falls.

San Angelo businessmen Tad Lanford and Rodney Bratton opened their San Angelo Ashley store in 2006.

“We are very excited to be in Wichita Falls,” Lanford told the newspaper. “Wichita Falls is a much larger market than San Angelo. We have opportunities there that we don’t have in San Angelo. It is a great facility and location.”

Lanford said Steve Fairchild will continue to serve as the general manager of the Wichita Falls store.

Lanford and Bratton also own a television, appliance and furniture store in San Angelo under the Bratton’s Bargain City name, according to the report.