Called “the Walt Disney World of Furniture”, Furnitureland South is known for its 85-foot-tall highboy, and is the first of the group of stores which in 2004 came to be known as “Furniture Row” as well as “Gateway to the Furniture Capital of the World.”
Founded in 1969 by Harris’s father as a (relatively) small furniture retailer, the business grew into the behemoth it is today with the help of both Harris and his brother Jason, largely through a boom time in the 1990s that saw the company get bigger and bigger, becoming the de facto local showroom for furniture manufacturing brands based out of High Point. At the beginning of the decade, Furnitureland was roughly a $12 million dollar business – by the year 2000, it was netting $178 million in revenues.
Despite a broader trend toward small, curated retail, Harris says Furnitureland South’s size is its strength. Partially, the sheer novelty of being the biggest furniture store in the world lends the company a kind of intrigue. In September 2015, Furnitureland South was recognized as one of the “Triad’s Best Places to Work” by the Triad Business Journal.
According to en.wikipedia.org; businessofhome.com.
