Housewares

SimpleHuman Corporate Office

Frank Yang, an immigrant from Taiwan, decided he could make a better, cleaner trash can for the kitchen. SimpleHuman was founded in 2000 in Los Angeles, California.

The company designs, manufactures, and sells a variety of home items, many of them voice-activated, such as trash cans, soap dispensers, mirrors, and other items.

Yang originally named his company CanWorks, but as the company has evolved to include items other than trash cans, the name was changed.

While Yang mainly sold his products at retailers such as Bed Bath and Beyond and Home Depot, in 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic, Yang decided that he should also sell his items on his website.

And like many companies, due to the interruption of the supply chain, SimpleHuman has found itself overwhelmed with orders, causing many items to become back-ordered.

In April 2021, Yang donated 3,000 touchless soap dispensers to local schools not only in an effort to fight the coronavirus but to test his product to see if it will last at least 150,000 cycles.

Nearly all reviews are positive, whether it’s trash cans or paper towel holders.

SimpleHuman maintains a corporate office in Torrance, California.

Ruggable Corporate Office

When Jeneva Bell’s dog, Bambi, had an accident on her expensive rug, she was frustrated by the fact that it couldn’t be washed. Bell created her own type of rug called Ruggable.

Ruggable makes area rugs and pillow covers that can be washed in any home washing machine. The top “rug” portion can be easily removed from the recycled polyester non-slip backing.

Ruggable has a very large following on Instagram, with more than 380,000 followers who regularly post their rug mishaps and then the cleaning results after washing. The polyester rug cover has a polyurethane waterproof barrier sandwiched between the top surface, made from 100% woven polyester chenille, and the bottom surface, made of 100% polyester knit. The barrier blocks dirt, odor, and liquids from penetrating the cover’s bottom layer and the pad.

The company has received hundreds of positive reviews, even from finicky sites such as the Business Insider.

Ruggable maintains a corporate office in Gardena, California.

3 Day Blinds Corporate Office

3 Day Blinds is an innovative company, founded in 1978. Originally sold in retail locations, the company quickly discovered that rather than create new products and designs that customers might not purchase or that would go out of style, they could sell directly to the consumer from their own homes, creating custom window treatments.

Products that are ordered one day are manufactured the next either in Anaheim, California, or Ensenada, Mexico, which is near the border of California. Items are then shipped that day or the following day.

Forbes writes that “With new technology, 3 Day Blinds can track what keywords drove customers to make a phone call. For example, if a customer types a search into Google and gets the results for 3 Day Blinds, the website can create a unique phone number that lets the company know what keyword resulted in the call. Call center agents are also given a list of keywords related to the customers’ search that they can use to organically steer the conversation for best results”

The demand for window treatments is expected to explode in 2022.

Company headquarters are located in Irvine, California.

Factory Furniture Outlet Corporate Office

Factory Furniture Outlet, commonly called FFO, was founded by Ray Whitmire in Fort Smith, Arkansas, in 1984. Beginning with one small location, Whitmire believed he could attract customers by offering quality furniture that had been discontinued at other stores for an affordable price.

The family sold the business in 2007 to Alpine-Investors, Inc. The company expanded into other states and grew to 36 locations. The company now has 47 locations in 7 states with more planned to open, usually through acquisitions, such as their February 2018 takeover of Service Furniture and Bedding for an undisclosed amount.

In addition to furniture, the company offers housewares, wall art, decorative items, rugs, and items for organizing the home and home office.

FFO recently returned their headquarters to Fort Smith, Arkansas, after being in Oklahoma for a time. They took over an old Whirlpool distribution center on Jenny Lind Road.

Chalk Couture Corporate Office

Chalk Couture was founded by Tara Roark in 2017. While attending design school, Roark purchased an overly large frame for her home. After deciding that she didn’t want a photo or painting in the frame, she purchased a large magnetic chalkboard. Roark became disappointed when she couldn’t find any magnetic letters or other designs for adults and decided to create her own.

The company designs and fabricates a chalk type of paint, along with reusable vinyl stickers so that clients can create their own artwork or buy artwork from other creators.

The vinyl transfers can be used on almost any surface, including glass, painted surfaces, metal, or whiteboards. The chalk goes on wet and dries hard, but can be removed with a wet rag or made permanent with a spray poly.

The company has expanded tremendously in the past year and expects to sign up as many as 500 new clients within the next 6 months. The corporate office is currently located in Midvale, Utah.