T.J. Gentle, president and CEO of Smart Furniture, talks about the furniture he supplied to The Company Lab for the Gig Tank summer accelerator program.IF YOU GO
What: Smart Furniture open house at the Co.LabWhen: 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. todayWhere: The Co.Lab, 55 Main Street
A Chattanooga furniture company is tripling its downtown office space and expanding into a 50,000-square-foot warehouse to make room for recent growth.
“In our warehouse right now, we’re literally busting out of the seams,” said T.J. Gentle, president and CEO at Smart Furniture. “And our office is the same way.”
So Smart Furniture is taking over a third floor in the Market Street building that houses the company’s headquarters. After four years with about 25 employees, Gentle has hired nine new staffers during the past year.
Revenues grew by 61 percent last year and the company is on track to add another 40 percent this year, Gentle said. He declined to say what those revenues were.