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Company:Art & Frame Direct, IncCurrent Opportunities (0) Company Website  Location(s):11423 Satellite BlvdOrlando, FL 32837 Map Location
Phone:(407) 581-1327Fax:(407) 581-1342Industry:Wholesale / Retail Trade (non-computer)Size:100-499 |
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Company OverviewGeorge Eouse, president and CEO, established Art & Frame Direct, an Orlando-based global company, in March of 1991. Eouse became interested in the art of reproduction when he owned a small chain of restaurants in New England. He decorated each restaurant with antiques, but was frustrated by not having similar pieces for each location. He contracted a California company who reproduced old auto parts and arranged for them to recreate his favorite antiques. Soon after, Eouse went from the status of customer to owner, purchasing the company and moving to its present location in Orlando, Florida.The business began with a unique product that catered to what was then a small market niche—high-quality, antique reproduction castings of very ornate museum-replica framing and mirrors hand finished with gold or silver metal leaf, and quickly progressing to reproduction of other decorative products and furniture. The product lines expanded to include an extensive collection of oil paintings ranging from masterpiece recreations to contemporary works in unlimited styles and subject, and custom oil paintings. At that time, the customers were contract designers, art dealers and specialty dealers of antique furnishings. With only a small warehouse facility of 1500 square feet, Art & Frame Direct relocated three times in the first five years, reinvesting and expanding in both new designs and better technology. The creation of Art & Frame’s products is an interesting blend of cost-effective technology and labor-intensive handwork. Art & Frame’s internationally located production facilities have the latest in mold-making equipment, yet all finishing is done by hand. The ability to reproduce a wide variety of styles and design means the company can offer the customers more diverse items. The company’s technology allows complete high-definition work that is produced from actual antiques as models, or created by sculptors, that other companies are unable or unwilling to attempt. Eouse believes his ability to create both simple and intricate work gives Art & Frame a larger market share. Today Art & Frame Direct operates exquisite showrooms open to the trade in major merchandise market centers in all the key regional and national venues, and also participates in numerous industry-based trade shows. The company now wholesales products from many distinct catalog divisions featured on the internet and CD Rom discs that include a full spectrum of decorative accessories including wall décor, framed art and mirrors, sculpture, lighting and a variety of furniture. The company ships from two distribution centers of several hundred thousand square feet serving the United States from each coast to customers from all over the world including major retailers, mail order houses, and regional concerns of all sizes, as well as custom manufacturing for interior design firms catering to hotel and contract furnishings and private-label manufacturing for several major retailers. By partnering with other worldwide manufacturers to produce and distribute what they research to be viable and needed new products, Art & Frame Direct has consistently grown over 50% annually since the company was founded. Throughout the year Art & Frame actively introduces an aggressive amount of new items. |
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