COMPANY PROFILE
Headquartered in Archbold, Ohio, Sauder Woodworking Co. is North America’s leading producer of ready to assemble furniture and
the nation’s fifth largest residential furniture manufacturer. Sauder also sources furniture from a network of
quality global partners, including a line of office chairs that complement its residential and light commercial office furniture.
Sauder markets more than 30 distinct furniture collections
in a full line of RTA furnishings for the home,
including entertainment, home office, bedroom, kitchen and storage under distinct brands including
Sauder®, Beginnings®, and Studio Edge®. Chairs are also available under the Gruga® brand name.
Sauder Woodworking Co. is a privately-held, third generation, family-run business. Subsidiaries
include: Progressive Furniture Inc., a manufacturer and importer of traditional solid wood, veneered and
laminate furniture; and Sauder Manufacturing Company, a leader in church, educational, and health care seating.
With its 2,100 employees, the Sauder family of companies generates sales of nearly $450 million annually.
MISSION STATEMENT
Creating better ways...to offer better value...for better living.
FACILITIES
Sauder operates some of the most technologically advanced furniture-making facilities in the world, and this allows us to produce the high-quality ready to assemble furniture you've come to expect. Approximately
4 million-square-feet of manufacturing and warehouse space, including the 1.4 million-square-foot, state-of-the-art
Erie J. Sauder Distribution Center, are located in Archbold. Sauder ships over 48,000 cartons a day. Additionally, Sauder Woodworking Co. Dongguan Representative
Office, known as Sauder Asia, was established in 2007 to facilitate and oversee Sauder sourcing activities as well
as supporting Progressive Furniture’s Asian presence.
SUSTAINABILITY
Sauder’s foundation of stewardship and servanthood drives our environmental policy. Efforts to sustain natural resources and protect the environment are the focus of continuous improvement, and measured in 4 key areas of impact:
• Water • Energy • Waste and Recycling • Greenhouse Gasses
We are committed to transparency, industry advancement of best practices, full regulatory compliance and development of superior voluntary guidelines. We expect our suppliers to follow these same commitments. We encourage each employee to share in this stewardship. Adherence to commitments and sustainability progress are reported directly to our CEO and Board. This policy aligns our long-term success with the preservation and conservation of our world for future generations.
View our full environmental sustainability policy.
DISTRIBUTION
Sauder services thousands of retail outlets in the United States and Canada
through a network of discount mass merchants,
department stores, independent furniture stores, office superstores,
home improvement chains, electronic/appliance stores, specialty
retailers and catalogers.
CUSTOMER SERVICE
Sauder is a premier provider of service. The company offers:
- Quality assurance programs, in-house laboratories, and testing facilities
- Clear, easy-to-follow instructions with individually marked
parts that help make our ready to assemble furniture easy to put together
- Technical, dealer locator, and on-line assistance services
- Toll-free consumer hotline (800-523-3987) available Monday through
Friday to help consumers with assembly, replacement parts, and
locating product
- On-line consumer assistance includes dealer locator, repair part
ordering and tracking, product registration, email correspondence, and on-line live chat.
- Web site: www.sauder.com
- Comprehensive product warranties against defects in material and workmanship
HISTORY
In 1934, Erie Sauder started a woodworking business in a barn behind his
Archbold, Ohio home. Originally building custom cabinets and church
pews, he began crafting small tables from what he called “leftovers.”
Not wanting to waste scraps from expensive fine woods, the frugal
businessman began producing inexpensive occasional tables. In
1940,
these tables caught the attention of a traveling salesman who placed an
order for 25,000 tables – a seemingly daunting quantity for the
fledgling company. Using ingenuity and sheer determination, Sauder Woodworking Co. incorporated
and production began. Then, in 1951, Sauder
introduced an entirely new concept – a patented table that could be
assembled in the home. This snap-together table marked the beginning of
the ready to assemble furniture industry.
Click here to view the Sauder Historical Timeline.
