Thomasville Furniture Industries is a full-line furniture manufacturer based in Thomasville, North Carolina, with dedicated galleries in more than 400 retail furniture stores. Additionally, there are over 160 Thomasville Home Furnishing stores which carry only Thomasville products. The company has been a subsidiary of St. Louis, Missouri-based Furniture Brands International since 1995.
In October 2007, Ed Teplitz was named as CEO of Thomasville, replacing Nancy Webster, who had served in that post since August 2005.
Thomasville Cabinetry, sold at retail by Home Depot, is made by Kemper Cabinets, a unit of MasterBrand Cabinets, Inc., owned by Fortune Brands.
The corporate offices are still located along the railroad tracks in Thomasville, NC, but most manufacturing has been transferred to China.
The famous Big Chair, an 18-foot reproduction of a Duncan Phyfe design (first erected in 1922 and rebuilt in 1951) still stands in the town square as a symbol of the mutual success of a now famous chair company - and the town that cherishes its nickname, "Chair City".
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Thomasville Furniture began as Thomasville Chair Company.[1]
In 1968, Thomasville Furniture became part of Armstrong World Industries, which sold the company to Interco (now Furniture Brands International) in November 1995.[1]
Starting with the Spring 2011 High Point Furniture Market, Thomasville Furniture Industries moved its showroom space from Thomasville, where they had been since the 1950s, to the International Home Furnishings Center.[2]