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La-Z-Boy Incorporated
Public (NYSE: lzb)
Founded1927
HeadquartersMonroe, Michigan, USA
Key peopleEdward M. Knabusch, Edwin J. Shoemaker
IndustryFurnishings
ProductsUpholstered furniture and casegoods
Revenue$2 billion USD
Websitewww.la-z-boy.com
This article is about the company. For the piece of furniture colloquially called a "Lazyboy", see recliner.
La-Z-Boy Incorporated is a furniture manufacturer based in Monroe, Michigan, USA, and is one of the world’s leading producers of residential furniture, with a growing presence in the office, hospitality, health care, and assisted-living furniture industries. The company also manufactures and imports wood furniture products from outside the United States for resale in North America. They are best known for their recliners, but they also produce chairs, sofas, tables and rugs, as well as accent accessories such as lamps, pillows, and mirrors.

Structure

The Company is divided into two segments - the Upholstery Group, which manufactures and distributes upholstered furniture, and the Casegoods Group, which manufactures, imports and distributes wood furniture.

The La-Z-Boy Upholstery Group companies are Bauhaus, Centurion, England, and the eponymous La-Z-Boy.

The La-Z-Boy Casegoods Group companies are American Drew, American of Martinsville, Hammary, Kincaid, Lea, and Pennsylvania House.

La-Z-Boy Incorporated products are marketed through network of stand-alone La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries, La-Z-Boy Comfort Studios, and La-Z-Boy In-Store Galleries, along with the display programs of several other La-Z-Boy brands.

Operations

Although all La-Z-Boy products are made in the United States, the manufacturing process involves the collaboration of 15 independent divisions operating manufacturing facilities in nine states in the U.S and in Canada along with manufacturing operations in Mexico, the United Kingdom, and Thailand.

Facilities

North America

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Year 1927 (MCMXXVII
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Monroe, Michigan
Location in Monroe County and the state of Michigan
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"E Pluribus Unum"   ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
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Aspinwall Classification System (Leo Aspinwall, 1958) classifies and rates products based on five variables:
  1. Replacement rate (How frequently is the product repurchased?)
  2. Gross margin (How much profit is obtained from each product?)

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A recliner is an armchair that reclines when the sitter lowers the chair's back and raises its front. It has a backrest that can be tilted back, causing a footrest to extend from the front.
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Furniture is the collective term for the movable objects which may support the human body (seating furniture and beds), provide storage, or hold objects on
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Manufacturing (from Latin manu factura, "making by hand") is the use of tools and labor to make things for use or sale. The term may refer to a vast range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw
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Monroe, Michigan
Location in Monroe County and the state of Michigan
Coordinates:
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State Michigan
County Monroe
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Motto
"In God We Trust"   (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum"   ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
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North America is a continent [1] in the Earth's northern hemisphere and (chiefly) western hemisphere. It is bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the southeast by the Caribbean Sea, and on the south and west
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A recliner is an armchair that reclines when the sitter lowers the chair's back and raises its front. It has a backrest that can be tilted back, causing a footrest to extend from the front.
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chair is a piece of furniture for sitting, consisting of a seat, a back, and sometimes arm rests, commonly for use by one person. Chairs also often have four legs to support the seat raised above the floor. Without back and arm rests it is called a stool.
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couch, loveseat, sofa, settee, lounge, davenport or chesterfield are items of furniture for the comfortable seating of more than one person. Compare the joiner's settle, with its separate seat cushions.
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Table may refer to:
  • Table (furniture), a piece of furniture
  • To table (verb), to postpone or to submit for consideration
  • Tables (board game), a class of board games similar to backgammon
  • Table diamond cut, a geometry type in diamond design


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A rug can be:
  • a carpet with a finished edge, particularly one that can move, often the foundation of a rooms decor. (see also: rug making)
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Lamp (from Greek λαμπάς: torch) can be:
  • An oil lamp, the original use of the term.
  • A portable light fixture such as a table lamp or reading lamp (common usage)

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Please help [ improve the article] or discuss these issues on the talk page. A pillow
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mirror is an object with a surface that has good specular reflection; that is, it is smooth enough to form an image. The most familiar type of mirror is the plane mirror, which has a flat surface.
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Monroe, Michigan
Location in Monroe County and the state of Michigan
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