National Business Furniture Purchases Officefurniture.com

Furniture World Magazine

George Mosher, President of National Business Furniture of Milwaukee WI announced the purchase of the business of Officefurniture.com based in Danville CA. Both companies recognize that the future of e-commerce lies in bringing together the efficiencies of the web and the logistical strengths of catalog companies. National Business Furniture dominates the office furniture catalog field. It has grown rapidly by offering its customers a 250 page catalog with thousands of office furniture products, backed by a state of the art customer service program. All products of National Business Furniture are covered by a 15 year guarantee. National Business Furniture has focused on the commercial office market. Rich Petersen, President of Officefurniture.com states that they are the largest office furniture retailer on the web. They have grown by focusing on the SOHO (small office home office) market. It offers an extensive selection of ready to assemble office furniture products. Officefurniture.com has also grown rapidly with the increasing popularity of web shopping. Mr. Mosher stated that the combined companies will continue to offer the products of both organizations through the catalog and web channels. National Business Furniture has locations in New York, Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles, Chicago and Milwaukee. It is also affiliated with Alfax Wholesale Furniture and Dallas Midwest, which are leading catalog distributors of church and school furniture, as well as with Factory Direct Furniture, which offers discounted office furniture products. Combined sales of all companies known informally as The Mosher Group are expected to total about $140,000,000 in 2001. National Business Furniture can be found at Nationalbusinessfurniture.com, Officefurniture.com and Furnitureonline.com.