Dining Room Art: Thomasville Furniture

Manufacturing jobs are coming back to a facility that once employed thousands of people in Appomattox. WDBJ7's Tim Saunders is live at the old thomasville furniture plant, where Governor Terry McAuliffe made a big announcement today. Tim, who's coming to THE BURNETT Corp., parent company of the Hallmark Furniture stores in Central Florida, has become the exclusive dealer for thomasville furniture in Lake, Orange, Oscelola, Seminole and Polk counties and for Broyhill furniture in Volusia County. The first One of their ancestors on the maternal side, Thomas Sinclair, came from Sumner, Georgia near the area where thomasville furniture was made. He would work picking peanuts and working in a lumberyard. At age 16, he followed Horace Greely’s advice and Frederick B. Starr, 49, has been appointed president of Thomasville Furniture Industries, one of the nation's largest wood furniture manufacturers, with $220 million in sales last year. He succeeds Lawrence E. Bish, 57, who became executive vice president When the foundation determined that the attic space would make possible a writer-in-residence program, representatives asked Thomasville Furniture designers to come up with plans for the room in the summer of 2012. Thomasville had partnered with the HIGH POINT, N.C. — The master chest in the Thomasville Furniture showroom at the High Point Market doesn’t look too imposing, until you take a peek inside. It has adjustable and removable shelves, a valet where a man can hang his ties or a woman her .

HOOVER, Alabama – Bassett Furniture has re-entered the Birmingham-Hoover metro area with a new store on John Hawkins Parkway in Hoover. The company took over the former Thomasville furniture store at 2970 John Hawkins Parkway, which is just southwest of Michael Havdala, senior vice president of the Retail Brokerage division, HSA Commercial Real Estate, represented the current tenant of 1910 North Clybourn Avenue, Chicago, in a 16,342-square-foot sublease with Thomasville Furniture. Thomasville Furniture The Winston-Salem Journal in North Carolina reports that Heritage Home Group is shutting down it’s last two Thomasville furniture facilities. About 80 people will be laid off. The move was expected, according to the story. Lane employed about 1,400 ST. LOUIS, June 7, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Furniture Brands International (NYSE:FBN) announced that Kathy Veltri has been appointed to the position of President, Thomasville Furniture. Veltri will be responsible for all facets of the Thomasville brand .