Ashley Furniture Industries - wikipedia Ashley Furniture Industries Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc. Type Private Industry Furnishings Founded 1945 ; 72 years ago ( 1945 ) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Headquarters Arcadia, Wisconsin, U.S. Key people Todd Wanek ( CEO ) Ronald G. Wanek Products Upholstered furniture and casegoods Revenue US $ 3.85 billion Number of employees 22,582 Subsidiaries Ashley Furniture HomeStore Website ashleyfurniture.com Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc. is an American home furnishings manufacturer and retailer, headquartered in Arcadia, Wisconsin. The company is owned by father and son team Ron and Todd Wanek. Ashley Furniture manufactures and distributes home furniture products throughout the world. Ashley Furniture Industries sells home furnishings and accessories available through two distribution channels : independent furniture dealers and more than 500 Ashley Furniture HomeStore retail furniture stores, which are independently owned and operated by licensees in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, and Japan. It has manufacturing and distribution facilities in Wisconsin, Mississippi, California ( closed 2016 ), Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Florida, China, and Vietnam. Contents 1 History 2 Retail presence 3 Memorial Park 4 References 5 External links History Carlyle Weinberger founded Ashley Furniture in Chicago in 1945 as a sales operation. Specializing in wooden occasional furniture, Ashley marketed goods made by local companies. Later the company opened a branch in Goshen, Indiana. In 1970, Ashley invested in the Wisconsin - based Arcadia Furniture, founded by Ronald G. Wanek. When Wanek moved to Arcadia to open his own factory he took with him Eugene Vogel 's son, Chuck. The two began doing production work for Ashley Furniture. Even though Arcadia started out as a small production plant for Ashley 's lines in 1976, Wanek and group of investors bought out Weinberger, taking control of Ashley Furniture. At first the two companies maintained their separate identities, with Arcadia focusing on production and Ashley on sales. By 1982, the merged company 's annual sales reached $12 million and it had moved its corporate headquarters from Chicago to Arcadia. By the mid-1980s, Ashley offered a line of roughly 350 different furniture products, and had turned its design and manufacturing away from `` heirloom pieces '' toward products aimed at middle - income buyers. The company 's growing network included wholesalers such as Levitz Furniture and mass - retailers such as Sears, Kmart, and Montgomery Ward, in addition to smaller retailers. Sales had climbed to more than $44 million by 1985. In 1994 Ashley acquired upholstery manufacturer Sklar - Peppler, and by the late 1990s the company was operating assembly and distribution plants in Seattle, Washington ; Pomona, California ; New Brunswick, New Jersey ; and Orlando, Florida. Gambling that motion furniture was a strong growth area, Ashley acquired Gentry Furniture, of Ripley, Mississippi in 1999. That same year the company also branched out into retailing, licensing Ashley Furniture HomeStores to independent dealers. The chain grew in its first year to approximately 40 stores. By 2000, Ashley Furniture Industries employed more people in Arcadia than the town 's population. The plant in Arcadia had grown from 35,000 square feet ( 3,300 m ) in 1970 to 1,500,000 square feet ( 140,000 m ). The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration imposed $1.7 million in fines on Ashley due to unsafe working conditions at its Arcadia plant which caused over one thousand injuries to workers. Today the company maintains plants across the United States and also operates several factories ( including its largest ) in Pacific Rim countries such as China. Ron Wanek is currently Chairman of the Board and Todd Wanek is currently President and CEO. Retail presence The Ashley Furniture HomeStore chain of furniture stores is composed of corporate owned stores and independently owned stores with licenses to sell Ashley Furniture products exclusively, including mattresses and accessories. As of September 2016, there are over 600 Ashley Furniture HomeStore retail furniture stores operating worldwide. Ashley Furniture HomeStore is a retail brand which sells home furniture and accessories. Ashley Furniture HomeStore CEO is Mark Dufresne. Memorial park Ron Wanek designed and built Memorial Park in Arcadia, Wisconsin, with donations from Ashley Furniture. The park is dedicated to the soldiers who have served in wars throughout the history of the United States. The walkway in the park serves as a time line, beginning at the founding of the United States and proceeding into the future. A monument is located for each war at its place in time. References Jump up ^ Craver, Richard ( June 3, 2015 ). `` Firms have sights on Ashley Furniture ''. Winston - Salem Journal. Retrieved June 26, 2015. Jump up ^ `` Ashley Furniture Industries ''. Forbes. October 2014. Jump up ^ http://www.answers.com/topic/ashley-furniture-industries-inc Jump up ^ Abrams, Rachel ( 2015 - 02 - 02 ). `` OSHA Cites Ashley Furniture Over Dozens of Safety Violations ''. The New York Times. ISSN 0362 - 4331. Retrieved 2016 - 03 - 09. Jump up ^ `` Ashley HomeStores, Ltd. : Private Company Information - Bloomberg ''. investing.businessweek.com. Retrieved 2017 - 10 - 23. Jump up ^ `` Archived copy ''. Archived from the original on 2009 - 12 - 08. Retrieved 2009 - 05 - 27. External links Companies portal ashleyfurniture.com ashleyfurniturehomestore.com Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ashley_Furniture_Industries&oldid=806739291 '' Categories : Companies based in Wisconsin Manufacturing companies based in Wisconsin Companies established in 1945 Furniture companies of the United States Furniture manufacturers Privately held companies based in Wisconsin Hidden categories : Pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from January 2015 Talk Contents About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 23 October 2017, at 21 : 26. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. 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Answer: Ashley Furniture manufactures and distributes home furniture products