Furniture World News By Nic Ledoux on 5/12/2021
As part of the company’s new business model consolidating all production in North America, high-end custom furniture brand Marge Carson announced that it has relocated its corporate headquarters from Pomona, Calif. to City of Industry. The new location will house administrative offices and customer service, as well as marketing, design and accounting.
Citing “ongoing supply chain disruptions with Asian suppliers and the shipping industry” and a desire to have “direct control of our production and improve customer service,” CEO Jim LaBarge announced earlier in the year that Marge Carson would exit its Asian-imported casegoods collections, while consolidating production of its upholstered furniture and Palo Alto Bedroom lines in Tijuana, Mexico. The company has been producing custom upholstery and bedroom furniture in Mexico for nearly 24 years. “Mexico is a hig
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Rock House Farm, parent company of Century Furniture, Hancock & Moore, Maitland Smith and others, has agreed to acquire the casegoods design library from Marge Carson.
The company expects that the first designs could be ready for shipment again through Maitland Smith by fall 2021 and that additional legacy designs will be re-introduced to the marketplace gradually over successive markets according to a report in Furniture Lighting & Decor.
RHF is acquiring only the designs themselves and no part of the Marge Carson business, backlog, brand or distribution. Over the years, Marge Carson and Jim LaBarge created an expansive and iconic library of wood product designs, many of which remain relevant today, says Alex Shuford, CEO of Rock House Farm Family of Brands.