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DAYTON, Tenn. – Calling La-Z-Boy’s new $18 million innovation center “a labor of love,” company Chief Executive Kurt Darrow took the wraps off the state-of-the-art facility on Thursday.
“We can do design, fashion and innovation,” said Darrow about the 70,000-square-foot center that serves as the research and development hub for the Michigan-based furniture maker.
The modern-looking center here that employs 75 people is located next to La-Z-Boy’s massive production plant, where more than 1,400 people work making the company’s signature recliners and other furniture.
Darrow told a group of about 200 people that the new innovation center, on which work started about two years ago, is in addition to about $20 million in improvements La-Z-Boy is making to the factory and campus.