Rooms To Go Inc.

Private Company, Headquarters Location
11540 Hwy. 92 E, Seffner, FL 33584-7346, United States
(813)623-5400, (813)620-1717 fax, http://www.roomstogo.com

Primary SIC: Furniture Stores, Primary NAICS: Furniture Stores
Description: Retail: Furniture store chain. More

Rooms To Go, headquartered in Seffner, Florida, was founded by CEO and owner Jeffrey Seaman and his father, Morty, in 1990 after they sold Seaman Furniture Company. Rooms To Go, with more than 70 stores in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee, markets and sells low- to moderately priced furniture and accessories and offers discounts for those willing to buy a roomful. Rooms To Go also operates Rooms to Go Kids. Rooms To Go has opened a store in Japan and plans to open about 10 more by the end of 2000. Currently the company is ranked at number 380 on the Forbes Private 500 listing with more than 3,300 employees and sales in excess of $600,000,000. The first two stores opened in Orlando, Florida in 1990 and since that time, Rooms To Go has grown to be the largest furniture company in the Southeast and the 2nd Largest in America. The company has three state of the art distribution centers in Seffner and Lakeland, Florida as well as Suwanee, Georgia. These 800,000 + square foot facilities deliver to places from Florida to Maine. Trucking 2000 rooms a day. The company plans on offering an online retail outlet in the first quarter of the year 2000. In March 1997, the first Rooms To Go Kids Showroom opened in Marietta, Georgia, and now has 13 locations throughout the Southeast dedicated to children's home furnishings. Rooms To Go Kids is the only full service children's furniture chain, offering children's furniture. Competition comes from many furniture marketers and retailers including Heilig-Meyers, Levitz, and Sears.