Soon afterwards, he snapped up a disused factory and began turning out furniture.
The company, which started out in furniture, focused on customer service and low prices.
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Discounting the brief period after World War II when underutilized machine shops turned out bedroom furniture, this is Boeing's first consumer business.
I'm right up the street from a Pepsi-Cola factory, which is being torn to pieces by people who are throwing the files out the window, they're carrying out office furniture.
It turns out the furniture maker would buy a whole year's supply of wood when the price was good but didn't have the space or the manpower to unload the big shipments.
People drag their furniture out into the Sun... and the bugs will crawl out and die from the heat.
Rooms are decorated in neutral tones and decked out with homemade furniture.
Before smoking caught on with women, men used to retire to their smoking rooms, which were kitted out with special furniture.
Some factories now make furniture out of paper instead of wood, and the island has gained a reputation for making eco-clothes.
It was my dad moved me into my dorm room at college and hunted down my Resident Advisor when one of my crazy roommates moved all of my furniture out into the hallway.
Fab plans to roll out other categories from furniture to sheets by partnering with well-known designers.
Their houses were more spacious, their cars more impressive, their parties always catered, their furniture made out of unheard-of species of woods.
Mr. Kelley got into the business of buying them and converting them for other uses, leasing them out to businesses like furniture and paper processing.
Locals here have long stashed ancient documents under the brick floors of their houses, or under furniture, out of an enduring fear of invading armies.
They appear to be resting on an elegant countertop with out-of-focus furniture in the background, like we're glancing at a room in your house.
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"We threw out 25% of our inventory furniture, toys, clothes in some stores, " he says, smiling.
So he came home and started a new company, Lincolnton Furniture, which operates out of the old family factories that had been shut down.
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Cranes will rise in Barcelona, New York, Jerusalem, Las Vegas, Abu Dhabi, Paris and other world centers to construct glass sails, wavy monoliths, bristly multiheaded towers and other alter-the-skyline-forever structures designed by a spectacled, white-haired 78-year-old working out of a bullpen with cardboard furniture in West Los Angeles.
Do you secretly siphon off cash here and there and then go out and buy table saws and patio furniture you try to hide in the basement?
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Browne, 53, is a donnish, Cambridge-educated oil engineer who loves the opera, smokes Cuban cigars and collects Mapplethorpe photographs (of flowers, he is quick to point out) and 18th-century English furniture.
The Clifton cinema in Wellington closed in 1989 and was used as a furniture store until Dunelm Mill moved out last year.
As for the visitors they've welcomed into their world, everything one might need is on hand: The nursery has enough greenery to kit out an entire garden, while the shop sells furniture, gardening tools, baskets, glassware and even the china one eats off of alfresco.
Computers started out as discrete objects to be placed on top of furniture a PC on the desk, a laptop on the dining room table.
Forbes, Badovinus and Brunner, who joined the company as vice president of studio operations in 2001, all bowed out after the offering, and Tara Poseley, the furniture purveyor's head of merchandising (and former Gap exec), took the helm.
Forbes, Badovinus and Brunner, who joined the company as vice president of studio operations in 2001, all bowed out after the offering, and Tara Poseley, the furniture purveyor's head of merchandising (and former Gap (nyse: GPS - news - people ) exec), took the helm.
Nick Ward, head of Caribbean and South American development at Marriott International, one of the biggest hotel managers in the region, also points to the burden of employment laws that force hotel companies to keep on staff out of season and to import taxes on fixtures and furniture.
How many highly paid fund managers go into a cheap furniture enterprise or drop in to drink at the out of town locations of a pub chain?
"Joe customer thinks he's getting Ethan Allen quality stuff at a great price, when in truth, any importer can get the same furniture, " says Del Vecchio, who points out that the company sells at a 25% premium to its competitors.
Now the company plans to expand its convenience services, roll out new seasonal products, remodel its home section and emphasize its upscale furniture.
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