La-Z-Boy Comfort Studio at HomeWorld Furniture Since introducing the world’s first recliner in 1927, La-Z-Boy has created a legacy of comfort committed to bringing quality and value to America’s families. With all products built in the U.S.A., La-Z-Boy prides itself on using advanced and innovative technologies to create the most comfortable, durable, and versatile lounge furniture ever built on American soil. Expanding far beyond recliners, today La-Z-Boy offers a wide selection of both motion and stationary product, available in hundreds of fabrics and leathers, with both memory foam and zoned cushion technology options. In addition, the original recliner now comes as manual or power, with rocking, gliding, lifting, wall-a-way, motor massage, and customized movement features to choose from. “Live life comfortably” with the exceptional look and mesmerizing feel of La-Z-Boy furniture. Did you know that La-Z-Boy furniture can be made to order? You can custom order nearly all of our furniture to match your unique style and taste.
Customize your options and get the furniture you really want. Choose from Hundreds of Fabric and Leather Options Performance Fabrics - In addition to providing superior stain resistance, they defend against fading and are extremely durable. Leather - Performance, Authentic, and Renew Recycled Leather Available Personalized Comfort with Cushion Options Memory Foam - Memory Foam is a perfect balance of comfort and targeted support Premier ComfortCore - A zoned cushion technology for optimal firmness and lasting comfort available standard on select stationary sofas, chairs, ottomans and sectionals. ComfortCore Gel - A zoned cushion technology that includes layers of memory foam and gel-infused memory foam for exceptional body-conforming support. Innovative technology that surrounds each fiber to repel spills before they turn into stains. For most spills, simply blot with a paper towel; for tougher spills, use a mild soap and water mixture. Luxurious feel, exceptional comfort, available in a wide selection of colors and patterns.
Fabrics that are quality backed and stay looking and feeling great, so you can relax knowing you're covered. La-Z-Boy Comfort, An American Tradition At La-Z-Boy, we are investing in our plants and doing everything we can to remain a trusted, strong and competitive employer in the U.S. We recently launched a new “cellular manufacturing” process that increases efficiency and gives our American employees more job satisfaction and ownership of the products they craft on our behalf. Our American-made advantage allows us to provide the fastest custom-order furniture delivery possible, a feature none of our competitors with outsourced production facilities can match. At La-Z-Boy, we are extremely proud of our roots and we look forward to providing you with American-made comfort and quality for many more years to come! La-Z-Boy Inc. () is an American furniture manufacturer based in Monroe, Michigan, USA, that makes home furniture, including upholstered recliners, sofas, stationary chairs, lift chairs and sleeper sofas.
The company employs more than 11,000 people. La-Z-Boy furniture is sold in thousands of retail residential outlets in the United States and Canada and is manufactured and distributed under license in other countries including the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Turkey and South Africa.[2] La-Z-Boy holds US and international patents on more than 200 different styles and mechanisms. La-Z-Boy Incorporated is divided into three reportable operating segments: the Upholstery Group, the Casegoods Group and the Retail Group. The Upholstery Group primarily manufactures and sells upholstered furniture to furniture retailers and proprietary stores. This includes recliners and motion furniture, sofas, lift chairs, loveseats, chairs, ottomans and sleeper sofas. The Casegoods Group primarily sells manufactured or imported wood furniture to furniture retailers, including tables, chairs, entertainment centers, headboards, dressers, accent pieces and some coordinated upholstered furniture.
The Retail Group consists of 70 company-owned stores in the US. The Retail Group sells mainly upholstered furniture to end consumers through the retail network. La-Z-Boy includes various companies and brands including La-Z-Boy Residential, La-Z-Boy Kids, La-Z-Boy Hospitality, Lea Furniture, American Drew, Kincaid Furniture, Bauhaus USA Furniture, Hammary Furniture and England Furniture Incorporated. A location at the Savi Ranch Center in Yorba Linda La-Z-Boy Furniture Gallery Rt.1, Saugus, Massachusetts - 2001 In 1928, cousins Edward M. Knabusch and Edwin J. Shoemaker partnered and invested in the furniture business in the small town of Monroe, Michigan. They set out to design a chair for what they called "nature’s way of relaxing."[2] Using orange crates to mock-up and refine their idea, they invented a wood-slat porch chair with a reclining mechanism. Knabusch and Shoemaker then upholstered their innovation and marketed it as a year-round chair. The chair was a success;
they held a contest to name it—La-Z-Boy was the winner. In 1969, after years primarily as a manufacturer of recliners, La-Z-Boy started designing other products including reclining sofas, sleep sofas and modular groups.[3] 1981 sales were $150 million.[4] In 1983, La-Z-Boy introduced its first line of stationary sofas and occasional chairs, later offering a full line of home furnishings. Richard R. Allen, Don A. Hunziker and William O. Fenn borrowed $70 million to buy Lea, American Drew and Daystrom from Sperry & Hutchinson in 1981. LADD, whose name came from the three companies, began trading publicly in 1982.[5] LADD was the third-largest American maker of furniture for homes, with over $600 million in sales, when it bought six Maytag businesses in 1990.[6] LADD Industries moved from High Point, North Carolina to Grandover in Greensboro, North Carolina in November 1997, becoming the first company to locate its headquarters there. At the time it was the fifth-largest American furniture maker, with $500 million in sales, and the brands American Drew, American of Martinsville, Barclay, Clayton Marcus, Lea, Pennsylvania House and Pilliod.
[7] In September 1999, La-Z-Boy, at the time the largest American upholstered furniture manufacturer, bought LADD, the seventh-largest American furniture maker, for $197.8 million in stock and $101.5 million in assumed debt. Saul Cutler of BDO Seidman said the deal "sets up La-Z-Boy as an industry behemoth."[8] The deal, approved in January 2000, gave La-Z-Boy $2 billion in sales and made it one of the country's two largest furniture makers, Furniture Brands International being the other. On July 23, 2001, La-Z-Boy announced the LADD name would cease to exist. John J. Case, president of La-Z-Boy Residential, moved to head the new La-Z-Boy upholstery group, which included Bauhaus, Centurion, Clayton Marcus, England, HickoryMark, La-Z-Boy, Sam Moore and La-Z-Boy Contract Furniture. Don L. Mitchell, who headed the LADD casegoods group, would take the same job at the La-Z-Boy casegoods group, including Alexvale, American Drew, Hammary, Kincaid, Lea, Pennsylvania House, Pilliod and American of Martinsville.
Competition from China hurt many American furniture makers, and particularly La-Z-Boy's strategy of buying LADD to improve its casegoods position. In 2005, La-Z-Boy chairman Pat Norton called the LADD deal "the biggest mistake that I have ever made in the furniture industry."[10] Pilliod was the first LADD division sold, to Michels & Co. in December 2001. American of Martinsville was sold to Hancock Park Associates in November 2006.[11] Sixteen of the former LADD plants had been sold or closed.[10] On September 6, 2007, La-Z-Boy announced the sale of Pennsylvania House to Universal Furniture. Later that month came the sale of Clayton Marcus to Sun Capital affiliate Lexington-Rowe, leaving only American Drew and Lea among the LADD divisions. Also sold was the Sam Moore division, in February 2007 to Hooker Furniture. La-Z-Boy was still number three, with $1.5 billion in shipments. In November 2006, High Point offered $600,000 to the La-Z-Boy division that was formerly LADD to move its headquarters back.
Late in 2006, La-Z-Boy had 7000 employees, down from 13,000 six years earlier. The company began working on its image, telling consumers the company offered more than recliners. The company reduced its warehouses from twelve to five and announced plans to add 50 New Generation stores to the 334 the company already had; half of those used the new format already. Late in 2014, La-Z-Boy announced the closing of Lea after an unsuccessful attempt to find someone to buy the company. The High Point office would continue operations for American Drew, Hammary, and Kincaid. In 1970, Morgan Furniture of Takapuna, New Zealand, founded by Jack Morgan, commenced manufacture of the La-Z-Boy recliner for Australia and New Zealand. In September 2007 his son Graham Morgan announced that the company was to import the furniture from China and Thailand with the loss of around 200 Auckland manufacturing jobs. ^ a b [1] Archived December 27, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. ^ a b c ^ a b Winston-Salem Journal