American Furniture Warehouse

American Furniture Warehouse

American Furniture Warehouse (AFW) is a privately held furniture retailer headquartered at Meridian, Colorado. It was founded in 1975 by entrepreneur Jake Jabs in a former American Furniture Co. store location at 58th Avenue and Bannock in Denver, Colorado.Cite web|url=http://www.afwonline.com/about.asp|title=Corporate History Page|accessdate=2008-10-09]

AFW is well known in the Colorado Front Range area for its claimsCite web|url=http://extras.denverpost.com/news/green0330.htm|title=Chuck Green: Plotting by Jabs not jake|accessdate=2008-10-09|work=Denver Post] to be Colorado's largest or number one furniture retailer and for its frequent advertisements featuring founder Jake Jabs and his tigers. His local fame is such that Jabs was featured, along with Ron Zappolo, Tom Shane, and Jay Cutler, in the cartoon "South Park" season 11 episode entitled 'Guitar_Queer-o' as a 'celebrity'. [cite web|url=http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment_old/ci_7423001|title="South Park" drops names, takes jabs|accessdate=2008-07-07|work=Denver Post]

Jake Jabs' self-published autobiography 'An American Tiger' was panned by local weekly newspaper Westword when it was released in 2001 as "overstuffed" with "dozens of pages from his American Furniture Warehouse customer-service and employee policies."Cite web|url=http://www.westword.com/bestof/2001/award/best-autobiography-by-a-furniture-magnate-39757/|title=Best Autobiography by a Furniture Magnate|accessdate=2008-10-09]

In 2003 American Furniture Warehouse Co. and Value City declared they would no longer buy bedroom sets from companies whose executives signed a petition charging China with illegally dumping cheap furniture in the United States including Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Co., Hooker Furniture Corp., and La-Z-Boy Inc.Cite web|url=http://triad.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2003/12/08/story2.html|title=Furniture retailers strike back against tariff supporters|accessdate=2008-10-09|work=Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area] In 2008 American Furniture Warehouse was one of the companies that funded putting Amendment 47 on the ballot.Cite web|url=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/oct/08/backers-of-right-to-work-revealed-in-legal/|title=Backers of right-to-work revealed in legal document|accessdate=2008-10-09|work=Rocky Mountain News] On Tuesday October 7th 2008 Jake Jabs began running ads featuring himself promoting a yes vote on the ballot issue and he held a press conference because his office was flooded with calls shortly after the ads appeared.Cite web|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2008/10/06/daily19.html|title=Jabs touts right-to-work initiative|accessdate=2008-10-09|work=Denver Business Journal]

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* [http://www.afwonline.com/home.asp American Furniture Warehouse]


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