The industry's leading company in the late 1990s was Life Style Furnishings with sales of more than $2 billion. The company employed 30,000 people.
The trend toward home offices, which took off in the mid-1990s, was changing the scope and design of furniture across the board.
the world leading exporting nations in the mid 1990s
Ready-to-assemble (RTA) furniture was extremely popular in the 1990s, partly due to an improvement in quality--the products no longer smacked of dormitory living.
The Green Movement reached the furniture industry at the close of the 1990s. A few small companies started to recycle shipping pallets into fine furniture, such as coffee tables, desks, and dressers.
One lucrative market niche in the late 1990s was ergonomically designed office furniture that offered maximum comfort and flexibility.
The year that Taiwan started to export furniture to the US was in the 1990s. Some of the other things that Taiwan exports to the US are apparel, electronics, and books.
the leading firms in the electron tube industry in the 1990s were Zenith Electronics Corporation, Philips Display Components Company, Hitachi Electronic Devices, and Toshiba Westinghouse Electronic.
Liz Claiborne, Inc.
Microsoft was the maker of the number one software suite in the world in the 1990s.
U.S., Germany, Japan, France, and U.K.
U.S., Germany, Japan, France, and U.K.
J.R. Simplot Company