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Drexel Furniture is a homegrown North Carolina Company. Founded by Sam Huffman at Drexel in November 1903, the company began with one plant and fifty employees. Today, the company has eight plants and 2,600 employees making quality living room, dining room, and bedroom furniture.
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11789
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Drexel Heritage Furnishings, Inc., is celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary in 1978. Founded in Drexel in Burke County, the company employs about five thousand people in twenty locations around the state. Drexel is one of the largest furniture companies in the industry.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 36 Issue 11, Nov 1978,
p140, 208-209, il, por
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12109
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Drexel Heritage Furnishings, Inc. was formed from a merger in 1956 of two outstanding furniture companies - Drexel, founded, in 1903 and Heritage, started in 1934. With nineteen plants and over five thousand workers, it is one of the largest companies in the industry.
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32947
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Howard H. Haworth is chairman of Drexel Heritage Furnishings, Inc. The company produces bedroom, living room and dining room furniture, as well as products for hotels and offices. In this article, Haworth discusses his background, his business philosophy, and furniture manufacturing at Drexel.
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