La-Z-Boy Recognizes Top Performing La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries® Stores

Furniture World News

La-Z-Boy, the nation’s leading manufacturer of upholstered furniture, recently honored its top-performing La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries® stores in Las Vegas at the company’s bi-annual conference for owners of the company’s free-standing proprietary stores. The awards honored the top-performing stores based on 2002 shipments. “The La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries stores are one of the fastest growing retail networks in the furniture industry, and have been crucial to our distribution and overall success,” said Ken Salm, vice president of sales for La-Z-Boy. “These awards are our way of saying thank you to some of the people that help make our company one of the most successful in the industry.” La-Z-Boy honored its top ten performing Furniture Galleries stores, top three small market Furniture Galleries stores, new Furniture Galleries stores, and the top- performing Canadian Furniture Galleries stores. Top Ten Performing Furniture Galleries Stores: • La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries in Glendale, Ariz., operated by Ed Breunig • La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries in Fairfax, Va., operated by Roy Couch • La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries in Annapolis, Md., operated by Roy Couch • La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries in Rockville, Md., operated by Roy Couch • La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries in Sterling Heights, Mich., operated by Paul Opfermann • La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries in Mesa, Ariz., operated by Ed Breunig • La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries in Scottsdale, Ariz., operated by Ed Breunig • La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries in Mishawaka, Ind., operated by Jim Walz • La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries in Alexandria, Va., operated by Roy Couch • La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries in Roseville, Calif., operated by Jim and Liz Reego Top-Performing Small Market Furniture Galleries Stores: • La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries in Springfield, Ill., operated by Sande Hilst • La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries in Tucson, Ariz., operated by David Findlay • La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries in Reno, Nev., operated by Don and Becky Gruner New Furniture Galleries of the Year: • La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries in Oxnard, Calif., operated by Sandy and Joan Schatz • La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries in Middletown, N.Y., operated by David and Marty Katz and Keith and Arlene Woronoff Top-Performing Canadian Furniture Galleries Stores: • La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries in Calgary, Alberta, operated by Cam Davidson • La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries in Edmonton, Alberta, operated by Mohammed Moussa • La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries in Burlington, Ontario, operated by Tony Reis “I am truly honored to have been recognized by La-Z-Boy as a top dealer in such a great retail system. The hip new look of the stores and product, combined with the same adherence to quality and comfort La-Z-Boy is famous for, make us excited about the future,” said Ed Breunig, owner of the top-selling Glendale, Mesa and Scottsdale, Ariz., stores. “We have been blessed with success but see this as just the beginning.” La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries stores are made up of multiple galleries, each representing its own category of La-Z-Boy® furniture. The stores feature fully accessorized room vignettes in four major galleries, including: a Living Room Gallery with stationary sofas, loveseats and chairs in every style from traditional to contemporary; a Family Room Gallery, showcasing motion sofas and loveseats, sofa beds and reclining chairs; a Leather Gallery, presenting an impressive array of leather textures, styles and colors available from La-Z-Boy; and a Recliner Gallery that displays the full range of world famous La-Z-Boy reclining chairs. Every La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries showroom is built around a La-Z-Boy Design Center, which is staffed by design consultants and was created to provide customers with inspiration, answers and helpful assistance. Included in the design area is the La-Z-Boy Screen Test® system, which allows customers to design their own furniture by rendering any La-Z-Boy product in their choice of hundreds of fabric and leather covers. Headquartered in Monroe, Mich., La-Z-Boy is the nation’s largest single manufacturer of upholstered furniture and the world’s leading producer of reclining chairs. The company manufactures a full line of products for the living room and family room, including the company’s world-famous recliners, reclining sofas and loveseats, sleep sofas, modular furniture and leather upholstery, as well as stationary sofas, love seats and chairs. It is a division of La-Z-Boy Incorporated, one of the nation’s largest manufacturers and marketers of furniture.