Sam Moore
In early 1943 Sam Moore found a vacant overall factory in Christiansburg, Virginia and pulled up stakes and moved south. Sam Moore Chair was born and the original Sam Moore Chair soon became an icon in our industry. It was a channel back, barrel chair with a solid mahogany frame which retailed for $39. "Double truck" ads were common, with Western Stickley tables on one side and Sam Moore Chairs on the other and a big $39 in the middle of the page. Macy's New York or Wannamakers in Philadelphia did not consider it a successful furniture sale unless police had to be stationed at the elevators and people could get off on the furniture floor m if an identical number got on the elevator. For years Sam Moore was the leading promotional chair resource in America. The company made 12 styles. They could all be cut from the same cutting pattern and were sold in car loads only-305 pieces to the car .Best estimates are that somewhere between 3 and 4 million of those chairs were sold between 1943 and 1973. In 1959, with 3 old, multi-storied almost obsolete factories, the company began combining our production facilities into one modern factory. The first plant at our present location was 42,000 sq. ft. and we moved into it in 1960. We have since expanded it 12 times and it now totals about 300,000 sq. ft. Our latest addition, a 24,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art finishing room was completed in 1999 giving us one of the largest, most modern occasional chair plants in the nation. We are the only company in Bedford and, perhaps, the only upholstery company in our industry that has not had a single long term layoff in the last 32 years! In April, 1998 we became part of the best known brand name company in our industry. In April, 2007 Hooker Furniture Company acquired Sam Moore as part of a strategic goal to further diversify into fabric upholstery. In combination with sister company Bradington-Young; we will help Hooker Furniture grow its footprint in the upholstery sector and strengthen business with the designer distribution channel.
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