US home fashion retailer Ethan Allen to expand production in Vermont

Ethan Allen Interiors, a US-based furniture retailer, has reaffirmed its commitment to maintain and grow its North American workshops where customisation helps create quality products. To further this commitment, Ethan Allen is recruiting new employees for its manufacturing operations in both Beecher Falls and Orleans, Vermont despite escalating manufacturing costs.

 

Ethan Allen, a US-based furniture retailer, has reaffirmed its commitment to maintain and grow its North American workshops where customisation helps create quality products. To further this commitment, Ethan Allen is recruiting new employees for its manufacturing operations in both Beecher Falls and Orleans, Vermont despite escalating manufacturing costs.#

“We are pleased to see our business continue to be strong as we work to deliver customer orders and help them make their home a haven. Our commitment to manufacturing most of our own products has proven both a strategic and a branding advantage. We are fortunate to have maintained and grown our manufacturing facilities in North America which enables us to be in a better position to serve our clients. We also continue to make major investments in technology,” Farooq Kathwari, Ethan Allen’s chairman, president and CEO, said in a press release.

 

Ethan Allen, a US-based furniture retailer, has reaffirmed its commitment to maintain and grow its North American workshops where customisation helps create quality products. To further this commitment, Ethan Allen is recruiting new employees for its manufacturing operations in both Beecher Falls and Orleans, Vermont despite escalating manufacturing costs.#

“We’re named after one of Vermont’s most revered historical figures, and we started our business in Beecher Falls in 1932,” Kathwari continued. “Many of the associates in our Vermont plants are from families that have worked with us for generations.”

 

Ethan Allen, a US-based furniture retailer, has reaffirmed its commitment to maintain and grow its North American workshops where customisation helps create quality products. To further this commitment, Ethan Allen is recruiting new employees for its manufacturing operations in both Beecher Falls and Orleans, Vermont despite escalating manufacturing costs.#

“However, during the last twenty years our production in Vermont has had major declines due to a number of factors including the shortage of labour and the escalation of manufacturing costs. Our growth and future expansion depends on attracting and retaining strong talent while also controlling major costs of manufacturing in Vermont including escalating state income taxes, property taxes, and costs of electricity,” Kathwari added in the release.

 

Ethan Allen, a US-based furniture retailer, has reaffirmed its commitment to maintain and grow its North American workshops where customisation helps create quality products. To further this commitment, Ethan Allen is recruiting new employees for its manufacturing operations in both Beecher Falls and Orleans, Vermont despite escalating manufacturing costs.#

As part of its strategy to attract and retain strong talent, the interior design company recently increased its starting wage to $16.00 an hour as well as provided increases for those more experienced associates, a move that Kathwari hopes will attract and retain a new generation of craftspeople to Ethan Allen’s team of artisans.

 

Ethan Allen, a US-based furniture retailer, has reaffirmed its commitment to maintain and grow its North American workshops where customisation helps create quality products. To further this commitment, Ethan Allen is recruiting new employees for its manufacturing operations in both Beecher Falls and Orleans, Vermont despite escalating manufacturing costs.#

“I am pleased that we have made the decision to add more associates and increase base wages in Vermont, and I am confident that this will help us attract additional talented people including those just getting started,” Kathwari concluded.