Company Profile
HBF/HBF Textiles
Company Overview
At HBF our business strategy and operations are based on specific ideals contained within our mission statement. These ideals have been modified as our business has grown, but their original core continues to lead us to additional growth and success.
The first principle in HBF's Mission Ideals states "We are a quality house first". This commitment has dictated the basis of business operations at HBF since its formation twenty years ago.
The belief that "good design sells" has led to the strategy of working with creative and established product designers such as Barbara Barry, Orlando Diaz-Azcuy, John Hutton and Robert A.M. Stern to develop collections of original furniture and textiles designs to offer to the contract market.
"The customer is always first with HBF." We instill with our employees and sales representatives the fact that our business begins with an order and a customer; we increase our success by "exceeding customer expectations". Service is stressed in all areas of our manufacturing and administrative operations.
A fundamental principle of our business operation is that "we care about people". We provide a safe and enjoyable work environment with an attitude that fosters trust, pride and concern for fellow employees and our community.
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Company History
Hickory Business Furniture, now known as HBF, was organized in 1979 as a contract furnishings division of The Lane Company, Inc. of Alta Vista, Virginia. The first manufacturing employee was hired in mid 1980 and manufacturing operations officially began January 1981 with a total of 34 employees. The first order of HBF produced furniture shipped to a dealer in Chicago in March of 1981.
HBF Textiles was organized as a division of HBF in late 1987. HBF Textiles supplies a variety of distinctively designed upholstery fabrics and leathers, as well as drapery and sheer materials, to the contract industry.
Today HBF and HBF Textiles employs over 300 people in their manufacturing locations located in Hickory, NC. HBF is now a wholly owned subsidiary of HNI.
During the last twenty-five years HBF has become recognized within the contract furnishings industry as a leader in bringing to the marketplace innovative and award-winning designs. HBF's expansive portfolio of products includes side/conference and guest seating, executive and management seating, lounge seating, occasional tables, conference and casegoods products. HBF has supplied products to many Fortune 500 companies, sport facilities, retailers and residential customers.
HBF and HBF Textiles has representation in all areas of the US, along with Canada, Mexico, England, Hong Kong, China, Japan and the Middle East.
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